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2024-11-05 Fifth Column
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Three indicted for anti-Israel vandalism of Brooklyn Museum officials’ homes
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[IsraelTimes] ‘These are not protests; they are hate crimes’: Vandals charged with terroristic threat, criminal mischief for smearing red paint on homes of officials with Jewish-sounding names
Three people have been indicted on hate crimes charges in connection with red paint that was smeared on the homes of Brooklyn Museum officials during a wave of pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protests this summer, prosecutors announced Monday.
Taylor Pelton, Samuel Seligson and Gabriel Schubiner, all of New York, face a range of charges including making a terroristic threat as a hate crime, criminal mischief as a hate crime, making graffiti, possession of graffiti instruments and conspiracy.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said the three — along with others who have not yet been arrested — specifically targeted members of the museum’s board of directors with Jewish-sounding names in the early morning hours of June 12.
Among the homes vandalized were those of the museum’s director, Anne Pasternak, its president and chief operating officer, Kimberly Trueblood,
…I had no idea Kimberly is a Jewish name… and board chair Barbara Vogelstein.
"These defendants allegedly targeted museum board members with threats and antisemitic graffiti based on their perceived heritage," Gonzalez said in a statement. "These actions are not protests; they are hate crimes."
Using red paint, the vandals scrawled phrases such as "Brooklyn Museum, blood on your hands" and hung banners with the names of the board members, along with phrases including "blood on your hands, war crimes, funds genocide" and "White Supremacist Zionist," according to prosecutors.
Homes of the director and multiple board members of @brooklynmuseum —including one home on the Upper East Side—were vandalized last night.
The banners also included red handprints, anarchy symbols and inverted red triangles akin to those used by Hamas
 ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
to mark its targets.
Prosecutors say the vandals spray-painted security cameras so they couldn’t be identified as they defaced the properties, but were captured in other surveillance video carrying supplies to and from Pelton’s vehicle.
They also said a stencil found at one of the locations had a fingerprint covered in red paint that was identified as Schubiner’s.
Schubiner, who is 36 years old and lives in Brooklyn, was arraigned Monday and released without bail. Seligson, 32, also of Brooklyn, and Pelton, 28, of Queens, are expected to be arraigned next week.
Schubiner and Pelton are each charged with 25 counts, whereas Seligson faces 17, according to prosecutors. The most serious charge the three face is making a terroristic threat as a hate crime.
Lawyers for the three didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking comment on Monday.
Seligson’s attorney, Leena Widdi, has said her client is an independent videographer and was acting in his capacity as a credentialed member of the media. She described the hate crime charges as an "appalling" overreach by law enforcement officials.
Pelton’s attorney, Moira Meltzer-Cohen, has criticized the arrest as an example of the "increasing trend of characterizing Paleostine solidarity actions as hate crimes."
Hundreds of protesters marched on the Brooklyn Museum in May, briefly setting up tents in the lobby and unfurling a "Free Paleostine" banner from the roof before police moved in to make dozens of arrests. Organizers of that demonstration said the museum was "deeply invested in and complicit" in Israel’s military actions in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
— where it is battling the Hamas terror group — through its leadership, trustees, corporate sponsors and donors — a claim museum officials have denied.
The march on museum was a project of Within Our Lifetime, one of the many tentacles of the pro-Hamas section of Antifa
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