In the past days, two community colleges in Orange County, California have been vandalized with swastikas. The perpetrators in both cases are unknown.
The below text was sent to me by a Jewish friend of mine who teaches at Irvine Valley College (Irvine):
"On Friday, February 28, IVC Campus Police were notified of a swastika and other hateful messaging found written on a stall in the men's restroom in the library. Pictures of the images were taken and have since been removed. Police are investigating this incident with the use of surveillance footage taken from cameras outside the restrooms.
They are calling it and isolated incident...I'm quite shocked, to be honest...."
On February 25, at Orange Coast College, a swastika turned up scrawled on a wall. The campus paper, Coast Report Online, has the report.
http://www.coastreportonline.com/campus_news/campus/article_c3d17510-5d9b-11ea-9b92-ff450a49539d.html
I will say this carefully because I don't want to jump the gun and point the finger of blame at anybody. Whoever did it is despicable, and that includes the possibility that it was neo-Nazis, white nationalists, or whatever they call themselves. I note however, that in the OCC case, there seems to be a rush to pin the blame on white nationalists. If it's true that it was white nationalists, I condemn them, and I am no supporter of white nationalism. What I am pointing out here, however, is that political correctness seems to be at play-once again. There are other groups that have issues with anti-Semitism.
It's too bad that OCC had no surveillance cameras in use. They are becoming increasingly necessary on college campuses. I certainly hope the perpetrators of all these incidents are identified and prosecuted, if for nothing else, vandalism of public property. I say let's identify the perps and then point the finger of blame at whatever group they may represent.
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