Antisemitic Graffiti Scrawled On NYU Jewish Student’s Dorm Room Door

The door of a Jewish student’s dormitory at New York University was defaced with antisemitic graffiti, prompting outrage from university officials and the launch of an investigation with the NYPD and campus safety teams, the Jerusalem Post reported Sunday.

According to NYU President Linda Mills and Fountain Walker, the university’s global campus safety vice president, the student discovered the vandalism upon returning to his room on the evening of September 9. The offensive markings were removed.

In a joint statement, Mills and Walker confirmed that the case is being investigated by NYU Campus Safety, the New York Police Department, and the university’s Civil Rights Title VI Coordinator’s Office. “The targeting of a Jewish student is inexcusable, raw hatred,” they declared. “We are committed to maintaining a community where all feel safe and welcome and to eliminating antisemitism and other forms of hatred.”

Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, executive director of NYU’s Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, emphasized that every report of antisemitism is handled with professionalism. He added that this latest act of vandalism is unrelated to the September 1 theft of a mezuzah from another dormitory doorframe.