Hamas propaganda, a wild claim that the United States was guilty of “domicide” in the Middle East, was pushed at American taxpayers through a Smithsonian-funded exhibit, which was funded with $36,000 taken from those taxpayers.

The atrocity was revealed in a report from the Office of Inspector General and documented by the Federalist.

That report said it was the Patterns of Life exhibit in New York’s Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum that was used to blame the American military for “homes destroyed in Gaza” during the military conflict that was Israel’s response to Hamas’ terror attack on Israeli civilians on October 7.

“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 report said.

The IG’s report came out about the same time the White House issued a 162-page report on the leftist biases at the Smithsonian American History Museum, revealing the anti-American agenda in some museums.

There had been 2,600 complaints about the Patterns of Life exhibit, including from the nongovernmental group called Shurat HaDin Law Center.

The Federalist explained, “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 destroyed by domicide — the widespread and systematic destruction of housing due to military conflict, urban development, or social upheaval.'”

Purportedly addressed by the “exhibit” was the role of the United States as “the world’s largest producer of arms.”

The exhibit came from creator Mona Chalabi, a “far-left Iraqi-British journalist” whose other works include complaints about the lack of money in America, sex education and claims about Israeli “genocide.”

The biased exhibit, the Federalist report confirmed, left visitors alarmed and expressing “concerns that the exhibit provided a national platform for political activism, lacked balance of perspectives, and editorially omitted broader context.”

Some pointed out the exhibit promoted sympathy to terrorists and harmed U.S. interests.

The Federal also pointed out, “The OIG investigation also found that the $36,500 used for the Patterns of Life exhibit wrongfully came from the American Women’s History Initiative Pool fund.”

Those funds are supposed to be used for programs that “research, share, and amplify the histories of American women.”

Bob Unruh

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