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Breaking: Hate Reaches Another LA-Area UC Campus - Swastika Graffiti At UCLA

The morning Daily Bruin is carrying news of this outrage at the University of California, Los Angeles:

A Kerckhoff Hall restroom was vandalized sometime Tuesday night or Wednesday morning when someone drew swastikas and scrawled "fuck Jews" on a stall door. As of Wednesday afternoon, police said they had received no reports of the incident, which will likely qualify as a hate crime. According to the university police Web site, any incident involving violent acts, property damage, defacing of property, intimidation or threats prompted by a person's personal characteristics is considered a hate crime.

Unlike the current situation in Irvine, there are actually pictures of what these bigots did. At Irvine, of course, someone painted over the Nazi graffiti before people could get photographic documentation. The police have thus far dragged their feet on releasing whatever evidence they have. Then again, swastikas are swastikas - and here's the picture from the Daily Bruin:

You know, it's not that unpredictable that this is would be happening across American campuses - including and particularly elite institutions. You're talking about an environment where anti-Israel and anti-American professors and administrators defend the plainest anti-Semitic canards as anything from legitimate anti-Zionism to "education". The problem, of course, is that most of the students doing the hating don't care about those kinds of fine-grained distinctions. And so an environment of loathing and hate develops, until it explodes into the kinds of incidents that we're witnessing across Los Angeles-area college campuses.

Previously: USC Muslim Student Union Slips Into Open Anti-Semitism, UC Irvine Gives Interview to Anti-Semitic Hate Group, Wonders Why Everyone Thinks There's Anti-Semitism on Their Campus, UC Irvine Course Description: American Unilateralism Responsible For Islamist Barbarism

[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]

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