By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
A Columbia University professor's office was sprayed with swastikas and other anti-Semitic symbols.
At 11:30 in the morning she walked into her office with a group of students about to begin their psych lab and they were stunned and shaken.
The professor, Elizabeth Midlarsky, is a professor at Teachers College at Columbia. She is a psychology professor who also writes about the Holocaust.
The images were sprayed in red spray paint. Two were swastikas and one was the word "Yid" which is a derogatory word for Jew.
Columbia is an Ivy League school. It is on the Upper West Side of Manhattan a haven of Jewish life. Hardly a place where one might expect this. But it is also a bastion of anti-Semitism.
Universities are supposed to be place where ideas are freely debated. However, this kind of vandalism and defacing property as well as writing anti-Semitic graffiti is frightening.
They scrawl this images in order to instill fear.
Hopefully they will find the people who did this and punish them.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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