Am I crazy for noticing this on the NYC 'neighborhood passport'?
So right now, NYC is doing a 'cultural exchange'-type deal with the world cup and New York Public Library (NYPL). You can pick up a 'neigborhood passport' at any library and then there are 12 stamps all unique from different artists that you can collect from 12 specific neighborhoods, and on the neighborhood passport website they include info about the 'historical roots' of the neighborhood, and who the neighborhood is rooting for in the world cup (which is chosen/approved by the city).
Seems pretty cool right? I was intrigued and wanted to try this little gamified-experience of visiting different boroughs.
One of the neighborhoods you can get a stamp from is Midwood. For anyone not local, Midwood is a heavily Jewish neighborhood both in modern days and in antiquity. It's about 50% Jewish now. In the early 1900s, it was one of the only neighborhoods that Jews and African Americans could buy real estate in thanks to racist real estate laws which restricted purchase.
However, on the Neighborhood Passport stamp, Midwood's (or maybe just the local artist's?) historical roots are defined as 'Irish & Polish' and who they're Rooting For In The World Cup is... Ireland and Palestine.
This seemed pretty pointed to me. They could have had any other of the 12 neighborhoods root for Ireland & Palestine, including neighborhoods that actually have these as historical roots, but instead they chose the predominantly Jewish neighborhood while erasing any reference to the neighborhood's Jewish past & present. Like a pointedly antizionist message.
Am I just being overreactive in noticing this?
