Vandals Splash Graffiti on Home of Jewish Director of Brooklyn Museum

The homes of the director and three other museum officials were vandalized with red paint, and a banner at the director’s building called her a “white supremacist” Zionist.

The homes of the Jewish director of the Brooklyn Museum and other museum leaders were vandalized early Wednesday morning in a coordinated attack, according to a museum spokeswoman.

Vandals attacked the Brooklyn Heights home of Anne Pasternak, director of the museum, by smearing red paint and graffiti across the entry of her apartment building and hanging a banner that accused her of being a “white-supremacist Zionist.”

The homes of two trustees and the museum’s president and chief operating officer, Kimberly Panicek Trueblood, whose husband is Jewish, were also targeted, according to Taylor Maatman, the museum’s director of public relations and communications.

Mayor Eric Adams said in a social media post that the Police Department “will bring the criminals responsible here to justice.”

“This is not peaceful protest or free speech,” Mr. Adams said. “This is a crime, and it’s overt, unacceptable antisemitism.”

A Police Department spokeswoman said that officers were investigating. Outside one of the victim’s homes, police officers walked door to door trying to get footage of the attack and speaking to neighbors.