Posted on 11/01/2007 12:15:05 PM PDT by trumandogz
NEW YORK A Jewish professor found a swastika on her office door at Columbia University on Wednesday, the latest symbol of bias and hatred found at the school in recent weeks, police said.
Elizabeth Midlarsky discovered the swastika painted on her door at Teachers College, a graduate school of education affiliated with Columbia. Madonna Constantine found a noose on her office door at the college on Oct. 9. Both are professors of psychology and education.
The New York Police Department's hate crime unit is investigating both incidents. No arrests have been made, police said.
School leaders said they felt the college was being targeted because of its "deep, multicultural work."
"We are committed to maintaining that tradition by operating as an open, tolerant community," Teachers College President Susan Fuhrman and Provost Tom James said in a statement. "We will not be intimidated by these incidents."
Teachers College, founded in 1887, describes itself as the nation's oldest and largest graduate school of education.
Midlarsky's research focuses in part on altruism, and she has studied heroic rescues during the Holocaust. Her profile on the Teachers College Web site says she is working on a project on school violence.
Midlarsky did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
The discovery of the noose roiled the Ivy League campus, and students, faculty and administrators had denounced the incident targeting Constantine, who has written extensively about race.
A few days later, a caricature of a yarmulke-wearing man and a swastika were found on a university bathroom stall door. Police at the time said there was no reason to believe the two incidents were linked.
Police have said they believe one or more copycats could be responsible.
Nooses, racially charged symbols of lynchings in the Old South, have appeared in a number of recent incidents around the country.
Three white students hung nooses from a large oak tree outside a high school last year in Jena, La., fueling racial tensions. More recently, nooses have been found at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., and the Hempstead Police Department's locker room on New York's Long Island.
You will be re-educated for speaking about the faculty like that.
Until the Jena incident, I had never heard of a single noose being hung anywhere as an intimidation. And I am a fairly old person. I will approach these incidents with skeptical naivete. That is, I’m open but questioning.
THIS IS A SARCASM ALERT. THE FOLLOWING POST IS SARCASM.
Gee, speaking as a Jew myself, let’s give the lady a break. It’s hard to be a Jew these days. We’re lumped in with the white people. The Cheyanne and the Nez Pearce can pine away for their ancestral home and get sympathy; we get complaints. This putz who wants to kill us off gets to speak at Columbia. Not only that, but the greatest insult is that she has to hear that “neoconservative” is a code word for “Jew,” and the horror of being linked to a conservative anything is probably too much to bear.
SARCASM CONCLUDED.
Democrats are losing the black vote and must do something to jin up racial animosity so they can swoop in to be the saviors of their "groups". Could be the same with Jews, another voting bloc long taken for granted by the left.
My, my the libs are really having a ball playing Tawana Brawley. Too bad they haven’t yet started to spice things up by using the “canine-derived skin conditioner” she did.
Because it probably is?
Swastika painted on Jewish woman's door by a Palestinian = expression of the free speech rights of an oppressed people
Swastika painted on Jewish woman's door by the same Jewish woman = hate crime (until the truth is discovered, at which point it becomes a non-story)
Yeah what happened to that video? The police got it after some convenient stalling, but all silence since then. Rather suspicious if you ask me. And now this.
Cases of 'hatecrime'fraud should be seriously prosecuted with a penalty of maybe a year in jail.
By now there must be a heck of a website somewhere (or a few) compiling the fairly proven cases of 'hatecrime' fraud. Anyone here know of such a site?
‘Cases of ‘hatecrime’fraud should be seriously prosecuted with a penalty of maybe a year in jail.’
Full agreement.
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