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Brooklyn Museum director, Jewish board members’ homes vandalized

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The Brooklyn Museum’s director and a number of its Jewish board members were targeted by antisemitic vandals overnight, multiple Big Apple lawmakers said Wednesday.

Director Anne Pasternak’s home was apparently among those targeted by the vile mob.

The Brooklyn Museum’s director and board members’ homes were targeted by antisemitic graffiti overnight. Lincoln Restler/X
Museum director Anne Pasternak’s home was apparently among those targeted. Getty Images for Dior

Photos being shared widely on social media show a sign taped up outside one building in Brooklyn Heights that screams, “Anne Pasternak Brooklyn Museum White Supremacist Zionist.”

The phrase “Blood on your hands” could be seen scrawled in red paint on the floor nearby.

Meanwhile, an inverted red triangle was also sprayed on the doors — a symbol that’s been used in the past by Hamas to identify Israeli military targets and, more recently, has been spotted at university tent encampment protests across the country.

“Disgusting & horrible incident of vandalism happened over night in Brooklyn Heights & other locations affiliated with Bk Museum. This anti-Semitic incident is despicable,” Councilman Lincoln Restler (D-Brooklyn) tweeted, adding that he’d visited one of the scenes early Wednesday.

The Post reached out to the NYPD about the vandalism but didn’t hear back immediately.

When reached by The Post, a spokesperson for the museum only said, “We are deeply troubled by these horrible acts.”

Red paint was smeared all over the homes during the act of vandalism. Brad Lander/X

Other local lawmakers were quick to deride the latest spate of antisemitism to plague the city, with Councilmember Julie Menin (D-Manhattan) ripping the act as “absolutely horrific and vile.”

“This is not only disgusting antisemitism, it also poses a direct threat to the safety of these individuals and to the Jewish community,” Menin (D-Manhattan) tweeted.

“The cowards who did this are way over the line into antisemitism, harming the cause they claim to care about, and making everyone less safe,” Comptroller Brad Lander added.

It comes just weeks after anti-Israel protesters busted into the museum on May 31 and set up an encampment, defaced artwork and draped a banner from the side of the building declaring the war in Gaza “genocide.”

The museum’s yellow “OY/YO” sculpture was left covered in graffiti reading “Free Palestine” and “Free Gaza.”



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