Latest antisemitic graffiti at San Diego State University believed unconnected to earlier incidents

Swastikas and white supremacist slogans have been found at a campus dormitory at San Diego State University.

Earlier this year a swastika was found in a parking area at the southern California college. Police are investigating both incidents.

A statement from college officials condemned the incidents, saying: “SDSU…condemns any action meant to discriminate or harass anyone based on their social identity or religious affiliation”. The statement added: “Hate-motivated actions, such as this, and those reported earlier, have no place in our world, and offend us all.”

It is believed that the “parking lot swastika” and the most recent incident had different perpetrators. Jewish organisations, University authorities and the police are cooperating “to try to connect the dots”, according to one Jewish group.

In February 2020, the University PShabbat resident, Adela de la Torre, intervened to condemn anti-Jewish rhetoric and antisemitism after members of a group called Uhuru were prevented from bringing their group’s founder, Omali Yeshitela, to campus. Jewish groups objected saying that Mr Yeshitela had espoused Jew-hate. Uhuru members later claimed that SDSU was “controlled by Zionist masters.”

At the time, the director of SDSU’s Jewish Studies programme, Risa Levitt said a demonstration by Uhuru members included “some pretty horrific antisemitic, anti-Jewish tropes.”

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