Why pro-Palestine protesters are targeting the Brooklyn Museum

On Wednesday morning, the homes of four executives from the Brooklyn Museum were smeared with red paint and grafitti accusing them of having "blood on their hands". 

At the home of Anne Pasternak, the director of the Brooklyn Museum, a banner with the words "white-supremacist Zionist" was stretched out between two pillars outside her front door.

No group has claimed responsibility for the actions but the incident sparked immediate backlash from the political establishment.

NYC's Mayor Eric Adams described as "unacceptable antisemitism" and added that the city's police department would investigate and "bring the criminals responsible here to justice".

The action outside the executives' homes, activists familiar with the months-long advocacy against the Brooklyn Museum said, was in protest against the complicity of the museum's leadership with Israel's continued war on the Palestinians in Gaza.

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