Houston mural tagged with antisemitic, vulgar graffiti

A popular Israeli artist had one of her Houston murals vandalized with antisemitic graffiti over Labor Day weekend. Anat Ronen’s large floral mural in Houston’s East End was covered in red paint with phrases that included ‘Death to Zionism,’ ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘F*** Anat.’ Ronen spent most of the day Aug. 31 cleaning up the mess and repainting the mural, which was originally commissioned in June by the owner of the neighborhood property. “The whole situation is pretty nasty,” Ronen told the JHV. “This was not about the mural and not about the content. This mural was nonpolitical, nonsocial, just a bunch of flowers. It is just about me being Israeli and Jewish. The vandalism is textbook racism.” Ronen said this is her first mural that has been vandalized, but not the first attempt to sabotage her artwork and way of life. “There is a group of artists that ever since Oct. 7 have been targeting me, calling me names, trying to hurt my livelihood,” Ronen said. “I went to the police, I went to the FBI and I went to a couple lawyers. You can’t sue them because they have nothing and they don’t care about the law, and...