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The University of Rochester in New York discovered several « wanted posters » featuring the faces of Jewish faculty members spread all over campus on Sunday. No one has yet claimed responsibility.
“This act is disturbing, divisive, and intimidating and runs counter to our values as a university,” said university president Sarah Mangelsdorf.
Images are emerging from the University of Rochester of « Wanted » posters being plastered on the walls.
The wanted individuals? The University’s Jewish faculty.
So, what are students meant to do when they find the people on these signs? pic.twitter.com/7HRGzvC9nh— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) November 12, 2024
“We view this as antisemitism, which will not be tolerated at our University. This isn’t who we are. This goes against everything we stand for and we have an obligation to reject it,” she said. “This act is disturbing, divisive, and intimidating and runs counter to our values as a university.”
Although no one has stepped forward to claim authorship of the deed, the anti-Jewish Jewish Voice for Peace group applauded the action, calling the posters “an attempt to shed light on administrators and professors’ support for the Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza.”
“The administration’s hasty jump to attribute these posters to antisemitism, without any proper investigation, comes across as an attempt to censor any discussion of the University of Rochester’s complicity in the Israeli army’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
