Suspect in vandalism of Weitzman Museum of American Jewish History’s Israeli flag surrenders to police

  • September 11, 2025 1:54 am

from Mainstream Media

The museum near Independence Hall and its Israeli flag display were vandalized with red paint twice last month.

A worker washes off red paint last month from the first vandalism on the “The Weitzman Stands with Israel” banner and Israeli flag on the side of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History on Independence Mall.
A worker washes off red paint last month from the first vandalism on the “The Weitzman Stands with Israel” banner and Israeli flag on the side of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History on Independence Mall.Read moreTom Gralish / Staff Photographer

Philadelphia police on Tuesday said a 33-year-old South Jersey man has been charged in connection with two incidents last month of vandalizing the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History and its large Israeli flag display with red paint.

Leroy Hayes, of Woodbury, was charged with ethnic intimidation, criminal mischief, and possession of an instrument of crime, police said.

Hayes surrendered to police on Monday.

On Aug. 18, the Israeli flag and a white section beneath it that reads “The Weitzman Stands with Israel” on the west-facing wall were vandalized with red paint.

On Aug. 25, the museum’s manager notified police that an unknown individual had vandalized additional areas of the museum’s walls and grounds.

The museum had been planning to replace its entire Israeli flag display with a large “Bring Them Home Now” display to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas and to bring attention to the hostages who are still in captivity, a spokesperson for the Weitzman said last month.

A few days after the second incident, however, Dan Tadmor, president and CEO of the museum, issued a statement saying a version of the Israeli flag would remain as part of the building display.

Tadmor said the museum did not want 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.”

Tadmor added: “As the nation’s Jewish museum, there can never be any misunderstanding as to our identity and positions: we are a proudly Jewish and proudly Zionist institution.”

Gov. Josh Shapiro said in a statement after the second vandalism incident:

“The Weitzman Museum is literally steps away from the birthplace of democracy and a symbol of liberty and justice for all. Antisemitic vandalism has no place there — or anywhere in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania — and must be universally condemned. Expressing views through acts of hate doesn’t further a cause.”

Anti-Border Demonstration Report

  • August 15, 2025 1:59 am

Submission

On the night of July 22 autonomous actors gathered in Center City to express their rage against borders. They took the streets. They marched for many blocks. Then they dispersed. Propaganda was distributed, trash got thrown onto the floor, some walls got themselves painted, and a police cruiser got itself vandalized. No arrests were made.

This demonstration was partly a response to the protests that have taken place over the last two years. We hope it showed that a protest may be called in the middle of the city in a way where the police cannot respond adequately. All that needs to be done is for the invitation to be shared in channels that are not being actively monitored by the police.

Borders will always be a way of controlling an inequitable distribution of capital, labor, and commodities. Borders will always be cruel and inhumane regardless of whether there’s a white or black president in charge. Peace under a state that is snatching people out of their homes and streets and sending them to concentration camps is another way of saying “collaboration”. Peaceful “resistance” in these conditions is little more than moral posturing.

No one is coming to save us. The time to act is now.

Sincerely,

Abolish ICE & Fuck the Police

poster/pasteup: butlerian jihad against ai

  • August 13, 2025 1:07 am

Submission

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Report from Bartrams North Work Party

  • July 29, 2025 1:49 am

Submission

A couple weeks ago an anti-gentrification work party occurred at Bartrams North. For years Bartrams North has been a contested site of development, the end goal of which is to create an “innovation district” on the lower Schuylkill River. The development would further devastate the cultures of Southwest Philadelphia.

Different crews came together to paint graffiti, cut the fence, sabotage a bulldozer with bleach, paint over cameras on light posts with a fire extinguisher, and disable the electrical box to cut the lights. This work party is an example of coordination between individuals and affinity groups, and an example of how action can look beyond demonstrations.

Cameras Painted in Malcolm X Park

  • July 24, 2025 1:24 am

Submission

Coasting off our excitement about autonomous self-organization, on the night of July 22nd we painted over all four cameras at Malcolm X Park. We want the park to stay the kind of place where people can meet and hang out without being surveilled, that’s why we took the game of Camover there. We’re holding in our hearts two people who have been accused of attacking ICE and policing and who were recently captured after being on the run, Jahki and Benjamin Song.
Solidarity with everyone fighting ICE and police!

Three Cameras Disabled for Camover

  • July 9, 2025 1:08 am

Submission

I disabled three cameras. The first one I cut the wire using wire cutters, another I painted over the dome with spray paint, and the third I cut the wires and pulled down the solar panel.

Here are two zines to help get started:
https://www.notrace.how/resources/read/how-to-submit-an-anonymous-communique.html
https://crimethinc.com/zines/blinding-the-cyclops

Happy hunting!

xo
Blood Moon

Camover Across Turtle Island!

  • July 7, 2025 1:08 am

from Unravel

Issuing a challenge to regional anarchist networks across turtle Island! ! Camover has hit Montreal, Philly, and now New Jersey.

Grab your crew, spread propaganda, make a call specific to your local counter info site/spread thru signal networks if not applicable and get in on the smashy fun! Don’t let your city be left behind or unnecessarily surveilled. Philly has its first confirmed kill, and the heat only is making people go harder.

If you don’t know the game or the rules, it’s about disabling CCTV cameras, in the name of community defense against police incursion into our daily lives. Between facial recognition and high powered cameras with zoom and pan features, masking up, good bloc, and getting rid of those goddamn things is all the more important. Not to mention ALPRs like Flock (ride your bike or walk while camera hunting)
the rules are simple: use any tools at your disposal, make sure it doesn’t work, and don’t get caught ! The level to which you make it not work is obviously time location and method dependent, but get creative and have fun. Let us soon gather anywhere we like, confident we aren’t being watched by our enemies, unless they get off their ass and come see us

With so much love and equal rage ~some East Coast transsexual anarchists
Move like our dead are still beside us. They are our greatest strength and wisdom

flyer for philly 2025 camover

  • June 26, 2025 1:02 am

Submission

CALL FOR A SPIRITED SUMMER GAME: Camover 2025 PHILLY!!!

  • June 20, 2025 1:43 am

Submission

Cameras suck! They’re evil and they pry into our daily life and expose our networks, movements, and habits.
In 2013, someone called for a game, Camover. The goal? Get as many cameras as possible off the streets of Berlin.
The rules? Record your kill, use any method you like, and disable them shits.
We’re in Philly and it’s 2025 so recording your kill is fucking stupid we’re nixing that rule. Dress good move smart and get rowdy and creative !
Some tactics and strategies from years passed include: grappling hooks, spraying them out, smashing them up, fucking removing them, flex seal, etch bath, I’m sure you could think of more. In the passed 7 years, Philly’s camera system has gotten too good. They can pan they can zoom and feeds over periods of time can be aggregated and sorted thru by AI. This spells danger for radicals insurgents guerillas and criminals of any milieu. The solution is simple and it was implemented systematically by various crews during the George Floyd uprising. Strategy and tactics were employed to defeat surveillance, and in the blind spot of the state, anarchy bloomed.
Every camera is a cop, this destroying one is about half as good as gouging a pig’s eyes. Claim your kills by reporting (brief text description with location and method if you like) them to camoverphl25@proton.me or don’t. All I really care about is hamstringing the surveillance state, so let’s all have a fun summer and get free!
Game is over on the last day of August, the crew with the most kills gets Nothing because bragging is dumb and unsafe. Love y’all! Kisses

Anti-SEPTA and Insurrectionary Flyers

  • April 29, 2025 1:59 am

Submission

[Questio[Anti-SEPTA Flyer]ns Flyer]
[Questions Flyer Printing]
[Anti-SEPTA Flyer]
[Anti-SEPTA Flyer Printing]

DONT USE MOLOTOVS: Some notes on safely burning teslas (or other cars)

  • March 19, 2025 1:34 am

Submission

Seeing the wave of tesla arsons has made us incredibly happy. But we are worried to see that many of these attacks have used molotovs

-molotovs aren’t guaranteed to ignite/explode. There have been many cases where police have recovered intact molotov cocktails from attacks. that is a shitton of forensic evidence that detectives WILL exploit.
-Even if the bottle does shatter, the shards of glass still likely contain tons of valuable forensic evidence
-Molotovs are loud and immediately create a big flame, all of which kills the element of surprise needed for arson attacks, which runs the risk of you getting captured or the fire gets extinguished much quicker

ALTERNATIVES: Fire starter cubes, sometimes paired with liquid accelerant in plastic bottles

Fire starter cubes are probably the best way to burn a car.
-they are guaranteed to self destruct
-they are discreet. By the time the vehicle has been engulfed in flames you will have had ample time to escape
-they are widely available, small, lightweight, and incredibly simple to use

Instructions:
We haven’t tested if a singular small cube is sufficient, but we recommend using at least a pack/bundle of them per vehicle. Placing them on top of a front tire is the best for both electric and gas vehicles. Placing them under the vehicle next to the tire could also be a good option as the flame is even more hidden, but we havent tested it ( if you do it this way it would probably be smart to also incorporate a plastic bottle of accelerant to ensure the flames are high and and strong enough)

Whatever design you use, you must test it beforehand and guarantee that every part of the device will be destroyed in a timely manor.

Dont smash windows if youre going to burn something because it is loud and increases the risk of leaving dna. be careful not to touch anything at the scene of the crime

Exercise abundant caution obtaining and handling materials. The no trace project (notrace.how) has great resources for avoiding surveillance and mitigating forensic evidence.

Stay anonymous, get home safe, and go torch the ever loving shit out of every part of this miserable society.

-Anarchists Against Electric Vehicles, Electricity, and Vehicles

Anarchist Primary Explosives Manual (February 2025)

  • March 3, 2025 1:41 am

from Never Sleep

PDF: APEM 2025-02

Anarchists are going to make explosives. In Greece and Russia it is regular, but a lot of the recipes easily available online are either quite dangerous (like TATP) or outdated (like most of the US Army Improvised Munitions Manual). The recipes I have compiled are found with a little bit of digging but are often garbled and not easy to understand due to a lot of tweaking happening on the forums they are posted in. My sources are primarily sciencemadness.org and various YouTube chemistry channels, as well as some rocketry sites and occasionally reddit. (With a little work you will be able to verify all the instructions I have put into this document.)

**It is my hope that by the compilation of this guide anarchists who are going to make explosives will at least make safer ones** that will not lead to injuries, arrests, or deaths.

Super Bowl Celebration – Philadelphia, PA

  • February 22, 2025 1:59 am

from Unravel

February 9, 2025

There were 10 arrests and 29 summons for disorderly conduct issued by Philadelphia Police during the raucous celebration of the Eagles’ Super Bowl win Sunday night, police said.

Six people were arrested for six assaults on police officers, said department spokesperson Sgt. Eric Gripp. There were four other arrests: one for reckless endangerment, two for aggravated assault, and one for misdemeanor disorderly conduct, he said.

There were also eight reports of vandalism, said Gripp.

Despite calls from Mayor Cherelle L. Parker to not climb poles or anything else and to celebrate safely, some of the massive crowds of people that took to the streets after the Eagles won their second Super Bowl, caused mayhem.

Multiple people climbed light poles along Broad Street. Crowds tried to flip a police vehicle at Broad and Chestnut Streets. More than a dozen people danced on top of a medic vehicle. A group of people took towels out from a truck at 12th and Market Streets and started setting them on fire.

Found on Mainstream Media

[Unmentioned in the article: graffiti in support of Palestine, against police, and for political prisoners.]

Sports Riot and Unrest Chronicle – Philadelphia, PA

  • February 2, 2025 1:09 am

from Unravel

January 26, 2025

With the Eagles headed to their second Super Bowl in three years, crowds of fans swarmed across the city, many marching up Broad Street, blasting music, waving flags, and — as part of tradition — climbing light poles. And in some cases, the crowd’s enthusiasm took a dangerous turn.

Earlier Sunday, at 6:20 p.m., an officer working the NFC championship detail at 700 Pattison Ave. was attacked by 32-year-old [name], of Soquel, Calif. [name] was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and related crimes.

Less than two hours earlier, at 4:40 p.m., another officer also working the football championship detail at 1100 Pattison Ave. was assaulted during a disturbance, police said. The assailant, [name], 44, of Media, was also charged with aggravated assault and related crimes, police said.

The incident was among at least four reports of assaults on police officers, authorities said.

The violence and vandalism reverberated throughout the city, even as celebrations wound down.

As officers tried to disperse a large crowd at 100 South Broad St., the crowd became verbally hostile and an officer was hit in the head by a full water bottle, police said. No arrests were made.

And around 4:10 a.m. Monday, police responded to a report of vandalism at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, where the glass front door was shattered and two large windows were cracked. Police continue to investigate.

Police are also investigating a video circulating on social media of a man firing his gun multiple times into the air in the middle of a crowd gathered at Frankford and Cottman Avenues.

Police said they issued 31 citations for disorderly conduct or failure to disperse to 30 adults and one juvenile across the city as they tried to manage the large crowds that traveled after the Eagles’ victory on Sunday night.

Found on Mainstream Media

Home Of Ghost Robotics CEO Flooded

  • December 1, 2024 1:43 am

Submission

Early thankstaking morning* we flooded the home that Ghost Robotics CEO Gavin Kenneally is trying to sell. He used to live there but seems to have moved out after the home started getting attacked. In July his home was tagged and in October it was tagged again and windows were broken. To create more lasting damage we ran a hose from a wall faucet through a small hole we punched into a glass door and turned the water on. Ghost Robotics develops robot dogs that are used in occupied Palestine and at the US/Mexico border. We took the fox we saw slipping under a fence as a good omen and hope the water kept running all night.

Let us each be a small drop in a liberating flood that drowns all authority!

-some anarchists

*November 28th