Messages of hate were discovered this week on the campus of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice on the West Side of Manhattan.
Bigoted graffiti was discovered in campus restrooms and in classrooms. It included racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs, including swastikas.
A letter to friends of the Hillel Club for Jewish students at John Jay said a swastika was first found last week in a men’s room on campus. The person who found it notified the public safety office, the letter said.
This week, another swastika was found, and the college Office of Student Life reached out to the society and student executives, the letter said.
Some Jewish students said they felt targeted by the graffiti.
“In this case it was specifically anti-Semitic because it was swastikas, but whether it was racist speech or any show of bigotry, I don’t think that belongs on a college campus,” said Tomer Kornfeld of the John Jay Hillel Club.
Originally posted at CBS New York
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