Anti-Israel vandals target Congressman Gregory Meeks’ Queens home
Anti-Israel vandals targeted Rep. Gregory Meeks’ (D-NY) Queens home on Sunday, writing that he had “blood” on his hands, according to law enforcement sources.
Meeks, 70, came home at around 4:45 p.m. to find “Free Palestine,” “bootlicker,” and “blood on your hands” scrawled on his property in the Saint Albans section of the borough, the sources said.
The accusatory and pro-Palestinian phrases were written in sidewalk chalk and on posters, authorities said.
Photos at the scene showed some statements, including “war criminal,” written on a long driveway and a retaining wall below a line of plants. An investigator was also seen carrying two large paper bags away from the home.
The NYPD confirmed it was investigating an act of criminal mischief at the congressman’s address.
A source close to Meeks told The Post on Sunday evening that either the lawmaker himself or a family member had already washed the graffiti away.
“Some people scribbled graffiti on the house and left,” the source said.
The vandalism comes just days after it was revealed that Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, helped approve an $18 billion arms sale to Israel, including around 50 fighter jets, the Washington Post reported.
Meeks told the newspaper the F-15s would be delivered “years from now.”
The sale, which was pushed for by the Biden administration, also includes air-to-air missiles and Joint Direct Attack Munition kits that would redo unguided bombs with precision guidance, according to the outlet.
Meeks was hesitant to support the sale over questions on how the weapons would be used, Politico reported.
“I don’t want the kinds of weapons that Israel has to be utilized to have more deaths,” he reportedly said earlier this year on CNN. “I want to make sure that humanitarian aid gets in. I don’t want people starving to death, and I want Hamas to release the hostages. And I want a two-state solution.”
Meeks did not immediately return a request for comment.
