(Jewish Group) Antisemitic Graffiti Found on Mount Holyoke College Campus Likely Done By Student

Mount Holyoke College on Friday reported its third case of antisemitic graffiti since October after finding a hand-drawn swastika and an anti-Jewish slur in a residence hall bathroom.

Peggy Shukur, deputy regional director for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in New England, said the graffiti, written with black marker on bathroom tile, was reported Tuesday by a parent of one of the students at the prestigious Massachusetts women's school.

The ADL received another two reports of swastikas and slurs against Jewish people in October, both in bathrooms in the same residence hall.

According to a statement from the school President Sonya Stephens, the graffiti has been removed and an investigation is in progress.

"Based on all of the information that we have available to us, we believe that these incidents are the acts of an individual Mount Holyoke student who is living on campus," Stephens wrote. "We find abhorrent, and take extremely seriously, such acts of hatred against fellow members of our community."

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