WorldNetDaily’s Bob Unruh wrote in a July 8 article:
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 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.”
Unruh offered no evidence that the U.S. did not contribute militarily to the destruction of homes in Gaza — indeed, more than 650,000 people in Gaza have been made homeless as of early 2024, and that number has certainly gone up since then. Nor did Unruh justify how Hamas’ actions warranted that level of destruction, and it didn’t explain how, exactly, documenting the destruction equated to “Hamas propaganda.” Instead, he whined:
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.
Unruh did not explain why the U.S. “interest” of destroying the property of civilians should not be harmed, or why it was a bad thing for the Smithsonian to point this out. And, of course, Unruh made no apparent effort to contact the Smithsonian for comment.