Sickening: Homes of Brooklyn Museum's Jewish board members targeted with menacing messages from pro-Hamas vandals
Antisemitism is getting uglier than ever now that the Brooklyn Museum's director and board members, some Jewish, have been targeted in their homes with extreme vandalism and threats of Hamas.
According to the New York Post:
The Brooklyn Museum’s director and a number of its Jewish board members were targeted overnight by antisemitic vandals who tossed red paint and scrawled “blood on your hands” across their homes, shocking images show.
Director Anne Pasternak’s coop apartment building in Brooklyn Heights was among those targeted by the vile mob when they strung up a sign that screamed, “Anne Pasternak Brooklyn Museum White Supremacist Zionist.”
An inverted red triangle was also sprayed on her door — a symbol used in the past by Hamas to identify Israeli military targets and, more recently, has been spotted at anti-Israel tent encampment protests that plagued university campuses across the country.
That the red paint spattering attacks occurred at homes takes the matter one step closer to actual terrorism, well beyond peaceful protest.
The video below is particularly indicative of this, in that no groups claimed 'credit' for the attack.
Inbox: “You take peace from the people, we take peace from you.”
— Talia Jane ❤️🔥 (@taliaotg) June 12, 2024
The homes of four Brooklyn Museum directors were vandalized overnight in retaliation for the museum’s use of NYPD’s violence on pro-Palestine protestors. Per communique, targets include a Blackstone exec, HRC CFO. pic.twitter.com/WlJ3vuFdM0
The vandals' video in the tweet in fact is absolutely repulsive, played as it was with foul-mouthed gangsta rap music to depict the gleeful spraying vandalism. The thugs knew that what they were doing was illegal as they filmed themselves covering the apartment building with red paint and the menacing triangle symbols used by Hamas. Mayor Eric Adams rightly called the act a "crime" and said he would catch the criminals.
This is happening as Jews are being openly targeted on New York's subway, suggesting an organized effort.
This on the NY subway is terrifying and open racism https://t.co/QkuxA8CWHP
— S Sebag Montefiore (@simonmontefiore) June 12, 2024
Maybe it is one: A recent investigative report by NBC News found that the big money behind these protests are mostly foundations. They said they found no evidence that Hamas itself was financing the protests. But we learned something this past weekend that explained that: Foundations were bankrolling Hamas personnel itself, in the person of a supposed "reporter" who was holding three Israelis hostage.
I wrote about that here.
But what on Earth did the Brooklyn Museum, whose current signage displays former Beatle Paul McCartney's photographs, do to trigger this kind of terroristic protest?
On the surface, maybe it was a crime of opportunity. Brooklyn is where you go in New York when you want to meet an authentic Islamofascist, and I did it many times when I lived there.
Nominally, there was a scuffle at the museum a couple weeks earlier where pro-Hamas protestors took over the museum, and 34 protestors were busted by the cops. Amy Goodman at Democracy Now!, a very left-leaning broadcast program, has their side of the story.
The effort was led by one Nerdeen Kiswani, a wild-eyed fanatic who was last seen harassing child cancer patients at New York's Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, so she's not new to foul tactics. I wrote about that here.
Now unnamed vandals have struck in what they called "retaliation" for those arrests, targeting museum officials in their homes as Hamas military targets.
Here is a screen shot of their bloodthirsty message claiming retaliation:
I cannot imagine anything scarier, especially for dainty museum employees whose primary interest is in art, not politics, and who tend to be refined limousine liberals unused to thugs in their midst.
Was it Kiswani's group, called "Within Our Lifetime" that did this? They seem like a logical lead for the cops to follow up on, given that nobody cares about these protests but them, and the cops will, it is hoped, find out for sure.
It feels organized from without, though. The tactic in fact resembles what happened in Los Angeles a few months ago, in which a Brentwood lobbyist for Israel had his home targeted with smoke bombs and graffiti. That group was called "The People's City Council." I wrote about that here.
Notice that the People's City Council, on its Twitter feed, bills itself as a local group and posts mostly on local issues. But by some strange coincidence, they seem mighty interested in this vandalism case in Brooklyn across the country, retweeting the story again and again.
Maybe the groups are linked, as their tactics certainly suggest. If so, it may be a major criminal conspiracy to bring Hamas terrorism to America. That they keep getting closer and closer to it with each outrageous act suggests that that should be what authorities are watching for.
Image: Twitter screen shot