Officers responded to a Boston University's Jewish campus organization after staff reported anti-Semitic vandalism. The vandal wrote 'Free Palestine' on the building's windows.
The outside of a Jewish campus organization's building at Boston University was defaced with graffiti reading, 'Free Palestine,' in the latest incident of rising antisemitism on campuses across America. The Boston University Police Department and the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the vandalism at the Boston, Massachusetts university after graffiti was found written on the window of a Jewish student organization, authorities confirmed.
When authorities arrived, Hillel staff members said that 'an unknown person had tagged an exterior window of the building.' Police said that the words, 'Free Palestine' were written over a preexisting blue and white sign that read, 'We Stand with Israel.' In a campus-wide letter, Executive Director and University Chaplain Rabbi Jevin Eagle says the act of vandalism has left the Jewish community 'shaken' and 'disheartened.
This defacement was a targeted act, and we will work closely with BU police to identify, arrest, and prosecute the person responsible,' a Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office spokesperson said in a statement. 'Our message is clear: hate crimes in any form are intolerable and anyone charged with committing them will pay the consequences.'
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