In Philadelphia, an Israeli flag outside the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History was vandalized twice in just over a week. After initially planning to replace the Israeli flag with a “hostage-focused sign,” the museum reversed course and said it would rehang the flag. And in Quebec, a man is facing charges after burning an Israeli flag that was hanging outside a town hall building. As the Israeli flag has increasingly become a political flashpoint, it has raised a series of thorny questions: Can targeting the Israeli flag be a legitimate form of political protest, or is it inherently antisemitic? “The same flag could represent the state of Israel, could represent Zionism, could represent Jewish nationality, could represent Jewish religion,” Dane said.