Anti-Semitic note left on mural at Jewish Children’s Museum – By Ellen Moynihan and John Annese (New York Daily News) / May 31 2019
A mural outside the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights meant as a place to record good deeds was marred with a message of hate on Thursday — “Hitler is coming.”
The interactive display, which has the words “Transform the World” across its top, has dozens of brightly-colored squares that have been filled out by passersby with positive sentiments about how to make the world better — “By bringing joy,” or “I’m making my friend happy.”
The anti-Semitic note was left alongside the others by an unknown person.
This is just awful.
An interactive sign in front of the the Jewish Children's Museum in Crown Heights asking people how they would transform the world was defaced with Antisemitic graffiti! pic.twitter.com/mP66xPKIYH— Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone (@Mottel) May 30, 2019
The NYPD Hate Crimes Unit responded and took the note, said Museum Co-Founder Devorah Halberstam.
“Every time there’s an incident everyone gets together. They have a press conference, they scream, they shout, they take a photo, and then we forget about it,” said Rabbi Yaacov Behrman. “We have to start addressing this problem head on.”
Governor Cuomo directed the State Police Hate Crimes Task Force to assist the NYPD in the investigation on Thursday evening.
The museum has been the target of anti-Semitism in the past. A bomb threat in 2017 turned out to be a hoax.
