Montgomery County police are looking for the person who vandalized the sign at Walt Whitman High School.
The principal of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md., told parents in a letter Saturday that antisemitic graffiti was found on an entrance sign. Montgomery County police are investigating. A vandal painted “Jews Not Welcome” on an entrance sign at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, just days after a schoolwide lesson on antisemitism, Principal Robert Dodd said in a letter to parents Saturday.Montgomery County police are looking for the vandal.
The county council, which unanimously passed a resolution addressing antisemitism last month, issued a statement Saturday on the latest incident. “We are disgusted and angry to learn about yet another display of hate targeting the Jewish community in Montgomery County," the statement read."These acts are not only a desecration of public spaces but hurtful and damaging to the entire Montgomery County community.
In his letter to parents, Dodd asked anyone with information about the vandalism at the high school to report it, and he urged parents to talk to students about antisemitism. He said the school’s Jewish Student Union had led a lesson on Wednesday for the entire school about antisemitism. That exercise included students’ accounts of their personal experiences at the high school.
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