Manhattan's doors are covered in a Hamas targeting symbol
Walking through Midtown Manhattan, I stopped at a set of construction doors plastered with large posters from a campaign called Laboris.art — a Service Employees International Union project. It is paid for by SEIU’s Committee on Political Education, the union’s federal political action committee, and tied to its “Ball Without Billionaires” counter‑programming for this year’s Met Gala. The slogans read “Billionaires Can’t Buy Power” and “Labor Is Power.” Standard left‑populist messaging, until you notice the logo at the bottom of the poster: a crisp inverted red triangle.
TL;DR
- The Laboris.art campaign, funded by SEIU's political action committee, uses an inverted red triangle as its logo, a symbol with antisemitic historical connections.
- The inverted red triangle was used by Nazis to identify prisoners in concentration camps and is currently used by Hamas to mark targets.
- New York City officials previously condemned the symbol as antisemitic when it appeared in acts of vandalism.
- The current use of the symbol by SEIU's campaign has not been addressed by the union or Mayor Adams.
- The article suggests city codes can be enforced to remove unauthorized postings on construction sites and potentially escalate penalties for symbols tied to hate groups.