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Posted By admin on June 15, 2024

The homes of the Jewish director of the Brooklyn Museum and other museum leaders were vandalized early Wednesday morning in a coordinated attack, according to a museum spokeswoman.

Vandals attacked the Brooklyn Heights home of Anne Pasternak, director of the museum, by smearing red paint and graffiti across the entry of her apartment building and hanging a banner that accused her of being a white-supremacist Zionist.

The homes of two trustees and the museums president and chief operating officer, Kimberly Panicek Trueblood, were also targeted, according to Taylor Maatman, the museums director of public relations and communications.

Mayor Eric Adams said in a social media post that the Police Department will bring the criminals responsible here to justice.

This is not peaceful protest or free speech, Mr. Adams said. This is a crime, and its overt, unacceptable antisemitism.

A Police Department spokeswoman said that officers were investigating. Outside one of the victims homes, police officers walked door to door trying to get footage of the attack and speaking to neighbors.

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Vandals Splash Graffiti on Home of Jewish Director of Brooklyn Museum - The New York Times

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