Newsletter
Newsletter Support JNS

Red-paint vandalism mars Israeli flag at Philadelphia Jewish museum

A museum spokesperson told JNS that cleanup is still underway.

Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, Stands With Israel
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. Photo by Carin M. Smilk.

An Israeli flag at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia was vandalized with red paint on Monday, a museum spokesperson confirmed to JNS.

Philadelphia police stated that the flag was defaced around 4:45 a.m., according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The paint was accompanied by a banner that read, “The Weitzman Stands With Israel.”

Other immediate areas around the flag on the facade of the museum were also affected.

Police said the investigation is ongoing, with cleanup still underway, a museum spokesperson told JNS.

This incident comes less than a month after vandals drew swastikas on windows of the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education in Portland, Ore.

Izzy Salant is a Los Angeles-based journalist and social media/digital marketing manager at JNS.
The film documents the circumstances of the small rural town of Gniewoszów, focusing on one of its last living survivors, along with a resident who says he saw Jews murdered there six months after the Nazis’ reign of terror ended.
The episodes will “reveal fascinating stories,” IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said.
“This week we are reminded that with true faith, eternal hope and the power of prayer, nothing can stop the people of God.”
Tehran was on the verge of having too many missiles and drones for its nuclear weapons program to be stopped, the U.S. secretary of state said.
“Their air and missile defense systems have largely been destroyed,” Adm. Brad Cooper stated.
During the Iran war, Qatar’s media networks have adopted narratives aligned with Iran while framing Israel and the U.S. negatively.