\u201cWhat we certainly did not intend with this plan was to create a perception that we were capitulating to vandals or had somehow walked back our position of unequivocal support for Israel and its people,\u201d the museum\u2019s president and CEO, Dan Tadmor, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\t The Israeli flag on the facade of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History\u200b in Philadelphia\u2019s Old City in July 2025 (Jessica Steinberg\/Times of Israel)<\/p>\n \u201cYet that\u2019s how it was perceived by some. And perception \u2014 as we all know, especially in today\u2019s day and age \u2014 is reality,\u201d Tadmor continued. \u201cAnd perception does matter. As the nation\u2019s Jewish museum, there can never be any misunderstanding as to our identity and positions: we are a proudly Jewish and proudly Zionist institution.\u201d<\/p>\n Both the hostage sign and the Israeli flag will be installed sometime over the next week, according to Tadmor.<\/p>\n \t Dan Tadmor, the Israeli CEO of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History\u200b in Philadelphia\u2019s Old City, who began his job in January 2025 (Courtesy)<\/p>\n In June, the federal government arrested a Maryland man accused of sending threatening letters to the Weitzman that referenced the museum\u2019s \u201cmany big open windows,\u201d \u201cKristallnacht,\u201d \u201canger and rage\u201d and a future need to \u201crebuild\u201d the institution following its destruction.<\/p>\n The incidents come amid a string of vandalism at Jewish museums across the country. Last month, several swastikas were painted on the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, and in June at a Jewish art museum in Manhattan, a man wrote the word \u201cGaza.\u201d<\/p>\n Last summer, a sculpture outside of the Brooklyn Museum in New York was tagged with a host of pro-Palestinian phrases, including \u201cUr museum kills kids in Palestine!\u201d and \u201cF\u2013-k Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n Israeli flags have also drawn vandalism. This week, when the school board in Beverly Hills, California, voted to install Israeli flags in the district\u2019s schools, one board member warned that the move could turn the schools into targets.<\/p>\n
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