The director of the Brooklyn Museum and several of its Jewish board members were targeted in an act of anti-Semitic vandalism overnight, several New York lawmakers said Wednesday.
Director Anne Pasternak’s Brooklyn Heights apartment complex was one of the buildings targeted by this vile mob.
Photos shared widely on social media show a sign posted outside Pasternak’s building that reads, “Anne Pasternak Brooklyn Museum White Supremacy Zionist.”
Nearby, the words “BLOODY HANDS” were seen scrawled in red paint on the floor.
Meanwhile, the door also had a red inverted triangle spray-painted on it, a symbol that has been used by Hamas in the past to identify Israeli military targets and has also been seen more recently at tent city protests at universities across the country.
“Horrible and horrific vandalism occurred overnight in Brooklyn Heights and other locations associated with the Brooklyn Museum. This anti-Semitic incident is despicable,” City Councilman Lincoln Ressler (D-Brooklyn) tweeted, adding that he visited one of the sites early Wednesday morning.
The Post reached out to the NYPD about the vandalism but did not immediately receive a response.
When contacted by The Washington Post, a museum spokesperson would say only: “We are deeply troubled by these horrific acts.”
Other local lawmakers were quick to condemn the recent surge in anti-Semitism plaguing the city, with City Council Member Julie Mennin (D-Manhattan) slamming the act as “absolutely horrific and vile.”
“This is not only abhorrent anti-Semitic, but poses a direct threat to the safety of these people and the Jewish community,” Rep. Mennin (D-Manhattan) tweeted.
“The cowards who did this have gone far beyond anti-Semitism, they have hurt the causes they claim to care about and threatened the safety of everyone,” Auditor Brad Lander added.
This comes just weeks after anti-Israel protesters stormed the museum on May 31, setting up an encampment, defaced artworks and draped a banner down the side of the building declaring the war in Gaza a “genocide.”
The museum’s yellow “OY/YO” sculpture was left covered in graffiti reading “Free Palestine” and “Free Gaza.”
