Anti-Israel graffiti labeled 'straightforwardly' antisemitic' by seven museums

Following the Seattle police's determination that pro-Palestinian graffiti at a local Holocaust museum was not a hate crime, the museum and six others across the U.S. issued a joint statement calling the vandalism “straightforwardly antisemitic," according to Arutz 7.

“The senseless scapegoating of Jews did not begin or end with the Holocaust. It’s been happening for thousands of years, and while the pretext may change, the antisemitic motivation is the same,” the seven centers said in their joint statement on Monday.

The incident involved the phrase “Genocide in Gaza” being written over a photograph of a child Holocaust survivor. The Seattle Police Department reported that the vandalism occurred on June 18 and classified it as “a non-criminal bias incident motivated by political ideology,” according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.