Swastikas along with personal slurs and epithets were painted on a fraternity house on the Stanford University campus. The graffiti was discovered on the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house on Saturday night by fraternity members, the Stanford Daily reported on its website Sunday. “I am deeply troubled by the act of vandalism, including symbols of hate,…
Northwestern University police are investigating a swastika that was drawn on a wall of a bathroom in the school library. “It is deeply saddening to know that hatred still exists, and even on our own campus,” said Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, director of the Tannenbaum Chabad House in Evanston, the Illinois city where the university…
Swastikas and anti-Semitic epithets were written in a stairwell of a dormitory at the University of Missouri in Columbia. The two incidents occurred on the morning of April 9 and the evening of April 10. No suspects have been identified. The writing was done in ash, such as from the end of a cigarette or…
In the aftermath of swastikas found in a residence hall, the student senate at George Washington University asked the university to install more security cameras in dorms. The Student Association Senate passed a resolution Monday calling for the extra security measures in public spaces, such as near elevators and in residence hall lobbies, the student…
Swastikas were drawn on a campus dormitory board at Northeastern University in Boston. The swastikas were discovered Sunday in a common area in the International Village dorm. Northeastern’s president, Joseph Aoun, condemned what he called a “hateful act” in a statement that was emailed to students and staff, as well as posted on the university’s…
Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States rose by 21 percent in 2014, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit of anti-Semitism. The organization counted 912 anti-Semitic incidents last year, up from 751 in 2013, with the period surrounding last summer’s Gaza war seeing a surge of incidents. The tally included 36 cases of assault or…
Swastikas were spray-painted on a Jewish fraternity house at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Two swastikas were spray-painted early Saturday morning in the elevator of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house, and another on the basement door, the student newspaper the Vanderbilt Hustler reported. The anti-Semitic vandalism reportedly was discovered after a party at the fraternity…
Envelopes on the windshields of at least one of four vandalized cars in a Jewish neighborhood of Montreal contained single bullets and the message “You Will Die.” The cars in an apartment building garage in the Notre-Dame-de-Grace neighborhood were spray-painted with large red swastikas on their hoods. The swastikas faced the wrong way and one…
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