BYNEW YORK — People purporting to be pro-Palestinian activists hurled red paint at the homes of top leaders at the Brooklyn Museum, including its Jewish director, and also splashed paint across the front of diplomatic buildings for Germany and the Palestinian Authority early Wednesday, prompting a police investigation and condemnation from city authorities.
"This is not peaceful protest or free speech. This is a crime, and it's overt, unacceptable antisemitism," Adams wrote, sending sympathy to Pasternak and other museum board members whose homes were defaced."These actions will never be tolerated in New York City for any reason." Red paint was also splashed across the front of a Manhattan building that houses Germany's consulate and its United Nations mission, and another building that is a headquarters for for Palestinian diplomats. Flyers critical of the Palestinian Authority and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, were scattered outside the building.A spokesperson for the New York Police Department declined to comment, saying the agency was investigating and would provide more information later.
The group said in a statement that it did not coordinate the paint attacks but"we commend" any such actions taken against complicit institutions.