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Sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning at Brandeis University, someone drew a swastika in condensation on the window of a house where the college’s AEPi chapter was hosting a party.
Brandeis’ student population is 47 percent Jewish, according to Hillel International, and it was founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian, Jewish-sponsored university.
“That a swastika, with all the horrors it represents, would be marked anywhere is reprehensible, and when our students may have been the target of this symbol of hatred, we are compelled to speak out against injustice,” said Lisa Lynch, the university’s interim president, in a statement issued Saturday, according to JTA.
The Brandeis chapter of J Street U also condemned the incident in a Facebook post: “We unequivocally condemn this act of anti-semitism, and hope that the perpetrator is caught as quickly as possible.”
“This is a time for the entire Brandeis community, Jewish and non-Jewish, to stand together against hatred,” the post added.
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