It was bad enough when mainstream media sources cited Hamas-linked sources when reporting on the Israel-Hamas war.
A recent report from the Office of the Inspector General exposes the deeper penetration of terrorist-backed propaganda that has taken root in American institutions.
According to The Federalist, the display amounted to the spread of “Hamas propaganda”:
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.”
ADVERTISEMENTThe museum claims the exhibit exists to question the “complex role of the United States … as the leading financial contributor to United Nations peacekeeping initiatives, but also the world’s largest producer of arms.”
Mona Chalabi, the exhibit’s creator, is a far-left Iraqi-British journalist. In her new book, Ten Lives, she addresses the financial situations of ten people and the “lack of [money] in America.” Chalabi also headed a four-part “sex education” series for The Guardian called “Vagina Dispatches,” which featured a man identifying as a woman. Chalabi has numerous posts on Instagram saying that Israel is engaging in intentional genocide of Palestinians. She also believes that the tripartite U.S. government system is “fascist.” Another Chalabi post lists all the countries America has purportedly “interfered in elections.”
The OIG report said that various museum-goers felt alarmed by the exhibit and “expressed concerns that the exhibit provided a national platform for political activism, lacked balance of perspectives, and editorially omitted broader context.”
News of the recent findings sparked some social media discussion:
This. Is. Astounding!
The @smithsonian was being used as a Marxist Commie propaganda tool. Unbelievable.
The left can never again oversee institutions that are entrusted to preserve our history & well being as a country. https://t.co/skIpM3vXhN— Pistolannie (@Pistolannie31) July 8, 2026
Only an ignoramus or a fraud would deny that the Smithsonian has been overtaken by identitarian ideology and political activism.https://t.co/CMeMBYLmef
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) July 9, 2026
The White House Highlights that the Smithsonian Has Become an Entity Run on 'Extreme Political Activism' https://t.co/GTs3Mz1nvu
— Joe Hoft (@realJoeHoft) July 8, 2026
👇 To those who think the @smithsonian hadn't gone woke : it definitely had. https://t.co/7VxaqOPCvT
— Dr. Jessica Emami 🇮🇹 🤌 (@Iranotopia) July 9, 2026
Here’s more on the White House’s separate report, per ABC News:
The White House released a scathing 162-page report accusing the Smithsonian Institution of engaging in “extreme political activism” and presenting “a radical view of American history.”
The report, which was published on Saturday, July 4, particularly took aim at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH), accusing its leadership of adopting “an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens.”
The report accuses the museum of “anti-White activism,” “illegal alien activism,” and “transgender activism.” It also includes many photos of materials the White House has identified as problematic.
Asked about the report, a spokesperson for the Smithsonian, which oversees 21 museums, galleries and the national zoo, told ABC News that the institution remains committed to impartial learning.
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