# @hyperallergic on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-07-08T20:33:31.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic

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Community members in Plainfield, Illinois, unveiled a monument late last month honoring six-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi, who was murdered by his family’s landlord in an anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian hate crime in 2023. Depicting Alfayoumi’s silhouette with his right hand raised to complete a red heart shape, the public artwork was unveiled on Saturday, June 28, at a local playground renamed in his honor. 

“To Wadee, I hope that you hear this, and I hope that you are at peace,” said Soha Khatib, an activist with the Palestinian Youth Movement, at the ceremony. “You are still so, so loved, and I hope you’re running around in fields just like this one in heaven.” 

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In June, Illinois community members unveiled a new public artwork honoring six-year-old Wadee AlFayoumi less than two years after his murder. (photo by and courtesy Josh Hendricks/Plainfield Park District) 

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monument, hatecrime, wadeealfayoumi, illinois

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