The University of Missouri has an anti-Semite – or a prankster – who really wants to get a message across.
An investigation is underway after the staff at Mark Twain residence hall discovered anti-Semitic graffiti in the building April 9.
Images of a swastika, a triangle with an eye on top and the word “heil” were smeared on a wall in the building’s northwest stairwell with what appeared to be charcoal, said Capt. Scott Richardson, a spokesman for MU Police.
Residential Life Director Frankie Minor said community advisors discovered the images at approximately 1 p.m. April 9 and notified MUPD and submitted a bias report, per the department’s standard protocol. The staff cleaned the writing from the wall, but found more anti-semitic messages in the same area at approximately 6:40 p.m. the next day, Minor said.
The school is mounting a big response: reviewing surveillance footage, interviewing “potential suspects,” and holding floor meetings (including police and Hillel leaders) encouraging whoever was involved to “turn themselves in.” It also wants students to rat on their friends.
Once found guilty, the perp(s) could be expelled.
Jewish students say the incidents have them nervous:
Junior Thalia Sass, president of the Jewish Student Organization, said she understands from experience what it’s like to be concerned for her safety.
“It becomes harder to show my Jewish identity,” she said. “I’m so proud to be a Jewish student on this campus. I’m so proud to flaunt my Jewish identity but when incidents like this happen, it’s scary. This person doesn’t know me but they hate me just because of the single aspect that I’m Jewish.”
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