在犹太信仰最重要的节日赎罪日的前几天，在耶鲁法学院的台阶上发现了反犹太涂鸦。
据美国国家广播公司康涅狄格分公司报道，周日，在康涅狄格大学纽黑文侧入口的台阶上发现了喷绘有“特朗普”字样和纳粹标志的涂鸦WVIT。周一晚上它被移除，并开始调查以确定肇事者。
耶鲁大学法学院副院长艾伦·科斯格罗维告诉《华尔街日报》:“我们对任何时候针对我们社区的这种仇恨行为都感到悲伤，但我们知道这在两个神圣的日子之间尤其困难。”耶鲁每日新闻,学生报纸。“多样性和包容性是我们[学院的核心价值观，对学生个人或学生群体的攻击是不可容忍的。”
涂鸦的发现是在忏悔十天期间，也就是犹太新年罗什节和赎罪日之间的一段时间。这也正好是耶鲁大学本科文科学院的家庭周末。从周五到周日，家人和朋友都在校园参加活动。
耶鲁大学以前是反犹太主义信息的目标。2014年，在新生宿舍外发现了三个用粉笔写的纳粹标志。大约一个月前，其他人被画在范德比尔特大厅的白板上。
新闻周刊我联系了耶鲁法学院，但没有及时收到发表的回复。
2018年9月27日，参议院司法委员会在康涅狄格州纽黑文举行听证会，听取克里斯汀·布拉西·福特博士和最高法院提名人布雷特·卡瓦纳夫的证词，学生们在耶鲁大学校园内漫步。周日，耶鲁法学院在其入口处的台阶上发现了反犹太涂鸦。
耶鲁不是唯一一所必须处理充满仇恨信息的高等教育机构。2018年，反诽谤联盟确定了201起大学校园反犹太主义事件。州和联邦两级的一些立法者也对针对犹太人的仇恨事件的增加表示关切。
耶鲁以色列之友，一个支持以色列的大学生组织，在一份声明中强烈谴责了这种涂鸦脸谱网。该组织写道，任何剥夺群体人性的努力，包括反犹太主义，“在道德上是错误的，违背了我们社区的核心价值观。”
学生组织没有关注这一事件，而是邀请人们参加关于反犹太主义和社区仇恨的“持续讨论”。
根据耶鲁大学法学院院长希瑟·格肯在给社区的一封电子邮件中写道，没有证据表明耶鲁社区中有人对此负责耶鲁每日新闻。她写道，这种行为“完全违背”了学校的价值观。
“耶鲁法学院对任何形式的歧视或骚扰都绝不容忍，仇恨的象征在我们的校园或社会中没有位置，”格肯在邮件中说。
任何知道此事的人都被鼓励去格肯的办公室或耶鲁公共安全部门。
SWASTIKA, 'TRUMP' FOUND SPRAY-PAINTED ON YALE LAW SCHOOL STEPS DAYS BEFORE YOM KIPPUR
Days before Yom Kippur, the most significant holiday of the Jewish faith, anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered on the steps of Yale's law school.
On Sunday, the graffiti, which contained the word "Trump," and an image of a swastika, was found spray-painted on the steps of the side entrance to the New Haven, Connecticut university, according to NBC Connecticut affiliate WVIT. It was removed by Monday evening and an investigation was launched to identify the perpetrators.
"We are saddened by this act of hate against our community at any time but understand that this is particularly difficult occurring between the High Holy Days," Ellen Cosgrove, associate dean of students at Yale Law School, told the Yale Daily News, the student newspaper. "Diversity and inclusion are core values of our institution [and] attacks against individual students or communities of students will not be tolerated."
The discovery of the graffiti came during the Ten Days of Repentance, which is the period of time between Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It also coincided with family weekend for Yale College, the undergraduate liberal arts college of the university. From Friday until Sunday, families and friends were on campus to attend events.
Yale had previously been the target of anti-Semitic messages. In 2014, three swastikas were found written in chalk outside a freshman residence hall. And about a month earlier, others were drawn on a white board in Vanderbilt Hall.
Newsweek reached out to Yale Law School but did not receive a response in time for publication.
Students walk through the campus of Yale University on the day the Senate Judiciary Committee was holding hearings for testimony from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on September 27, 2018, in New Haven, Connecticut. On Sunday, Yale Law School found anti-Semitic graffiti on the steps to its entrance.
Yale isn't the only higher education institution to have to deal with hate-filled messages. In 2018, the Anti-Defamation League identified 201 incidents of anti-Semitism on college campuses. Some legislators at both the state and federal levels have also expressed concerns about the rise in hateful incidents targeting Jewish people.
Yale Friends of Israel, an undergraduate organization supporting Israel, strongly condemned the graffiti in a statement on Facebook. The organization wrote that any effort to dehumanize groups of people, including anti-Semitism, was "morally wrong and contrary to the values at the center of our communities."
Instead of focusing on the incident, the student organization invited people to take part in the "ongoing discussion" about anti-Semitism and hate in the community.
Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken wrote in an email to the community that there wasn't evidence that someone within the Yale community was responsible, according to the Yale Daily News. The behavior, she wrote, was "utterly antithetical" to the values of the school.
"Yale Law School has zero tolerance for discrimination or harassment of any kind, and symbols of hate have no place on our campus or in our society," Gerken said in the email.
Anyone with information about the incident was encouraged to reach out to Gerken's office or to Yale Public Safety.
