Brooklyn Museum director, Jewish board members’ homes vandalized with antisemitic graffiti: ‘Blood on your hands’
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.
“This is not peaceful protest or free speech. This is a crime, and it’s overt, unacceptable anti-Semitism,” Mayor Eric Adams posted on X Wednesday as he decried the vandalism.
“These actions will never be tolerated in New York City for any reason. I’m sorry to Anne Pasternak and members of @brooklynmuseum’s board who woke up to hatred like this.
“I spoke to Anne this morning and committed that this hate will not stand in our city. The NYPD is investigating and will bring the criminals responsible here to justice.”
The Post reached out to the NYPD about the vandalism
, which unfolded near the start of the Jewish
Shavuot holiday, 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.”
The superintendent of Pasternak’s building, who only wanted to be identified as Daniel, said they were now in the process of hiring a specialist cleaning team to remove the vandalism from the building, which houses roughly 100 residents.
One of those residents, Harriet Colen, 79, who is Jewish, said the overnight antisemitic vandalism left her shaken.
“I feel a little scared,” the lifelong Brooklyn resident told The Post.
“People shouldn’t have fears of walking around their own neighborhood,” she continued, adding she felt sorry for Pasternak being targeted.
“The people who live here are nice people and whether they are Jewish or not, I don’t think they should be subjected to it.”
Meanwhile, other Big Apple lawmakers were also quick to deride the latest spate of antisemitism to plague the city, with Councilman Lincoln Restler (D-Brooklyn) ripping the act as “despicable.”
“Disgusting & horrible incident of vandalism happened over night in Brooklyn Heights & other locations affiliated with Bk Museum. This anti-Semitic incident is despicable,” Restler tweeted, adding that he’d visited one of the scenes early Wednesday.
Councilmember Julie Menin (D-Manhattan) slammed the vandalism 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.”
