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(JEWISH GROUP) Man with 'anarchy' button scrawls antisemitic graffiti on NYC Jewish art museum
A man sporting an “anarchy” button is being sought for scrawling the word “Gaza” on a Greenwich Village Jewish art museum, police said Friday.
The vandalism comes amid continued strife in the Middle East and a jump in antisemitic attacks throughout the country.
Workers at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum on W. 4th St. near Broadway found the graffiti written on their door sometime after 10 p.m. on May 26.
The art museum explores Jewish history and culture, sharing space with the Hebrew Union College, officials said.
Building officials reviewed surveillance footage and found a disheveled man sporting a button with what appears to be the anarchy symbol — an “A” within an “O.”
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