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IG Report Reveals $36K Smithsonian Exhibit Spread Hamas Propaganda About US Blowing Up Gazan Homes

The OIG report continues to reveal how America’s museums are captured by anti-American ideologies.

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The Patterns of Life exhibit in New York’s Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum blames the American military for homes destroyed in Gaza in the Israel-Hamas war. The Office of the Inspector General identified multiple flaws in the Smithsonian’s exhibition review process that allowed Cooper Hewitt to funnel $36,000 earmarked for American women’s history to an exhibit blaming the U.S. for “domicide” in the Middle East.

The OIG report, released only days before the White House’s 162-page report on the left-wing bias in the Smithsonian American History Museum, continues to reveal how America’s museums are captured by anti-American ideologies. The OIG began investigating the Patterns of Life exhibit after the museum received more than 2,600 complaints from visitors and the Israeli nongovernmental organization Shurat HaDin Law Center.

The exhibit, which ran from November 2024 to August 2025, featured three white apartment buildings with colorful interiors meant to mimic “documented homes destroyed by weapons manufactured in the United States during airstrikes in Iraq (2015), Syria (2016), and Palestine (2023),” the museum’s website states. The buildings reflect “on the experiences of three individuals whose homes were........

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