Antisemitic ‘art’ installation appears on Governors Island

A hateful “art’’ installation featuring a mock street sign reading, “F–k Israel Ln” and a “Hamas Lover” poster was exhibited on taxpayer-funded Governors Island during a weekend family Halloween event.

The crude “unauthorized” display excoriated the Jewish state, including with another poster that read that it’s “beyond the pale” for Israel to exist and which lauded US-designated terror groups, according to images obtained by The Post.

The outside of the small cabin housing the installation ironically had a sign on it that said, “Revive Humanity Now.”

“Not subtle. Not metaphorical. Just hate, displayed at eye level in a family event space where children were trick-or-treating,” married dad Kobi Lahav, 48,who inadvertently stopped by the studio Sunday with his family, told The Post of the exhibit.

Lahav said the deeply disturbing display was “designed to celebrate violence.

“To normalize calls for the destruction of a nation-state,” said Lahav, who is Jewish with Israeli roots and lives in Manhattan.

“To romanticize terrorism. And it was set up in a family-friendly event space on a sunny Sunday afternoon where the next house over was handing out Snickers bars.”

The collection of “art” was in the complex’s Building 11, a space seasonally occupied by Swale, a food-forest non-profit that is part of the Trust of Governors Island’s in-residence program, which invites artists onto the grounds.

The Trust for Governors Island claimed in an email to Lahav that its officials were unaware of the exhibit until he and others voiced concerns, while Swale organizers said in an online statement it disavowed the “extremely offensive materials” and took them down.

The exhibit was up about two hours before Governors Island officials became aware of it and immediately took it down, a rep for the trust told The Post.

Swale officials said the individual behind the hateful display was not part of the group’s official programming and was “invited into an empty back studio by a current artist-in-residence during seasonal wind-down without authorization to display work.

“We view this as a deliberate and malicious act by the artist,” Swale said.

“Like many visitors, members of our team also encountered this display and were personally affected by its content and conduct. We share the community’s distress and stand with those who were harmed.

“At the same time, it remains our duty to protect visitors and uphold standards in our spaces.”

The unauthorized guest artist and the resident who invited her were both banned from the space, and “neither will be invited back,” Swale said.

A Swale representative told The Post the inflammatory materials were put up over the weekend when volunteers were not around.

“House 11 is a restorative project, and we are devastated that someone would use this space as a personal platform to sow discord,” the rep said. “We are deeply troubled by the actions of an unauthorized artist.”

The Governors Island’s trust called the display “completely unacceptable.

“The Trust for Governors Island has no tolerance for hate speech or discrimination of any kind,” a representative said.

The city has faced a notable spike in hate directed at Israelis and Jewish New Yorkers since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel that sparked a war in Gaza.

The hateful installation included the mocked-up road sign, a poster that stated “Beyond the pale: Israel’s existence” and a drawing of a KKK hoodie with the Israeli and American flags.

Another poster showed a bird with a “F–k Israel” in a speech bubble.

Other items celebrated terrorists, including one that read “Hamas Lover” with an inverted red triangle and a painting of a flag representing Hezbollah.

Another poster board had a fist in the air with the Palestinian colors of red, green, white and black painted across it with the text “Free Palestine” and “Abolish Israel.”

Governors Island’s grounds and activities are run by private funds and taxpayer money across different levels of government.