The discovery of the graffiti also coincided with the undergraduate college's family weekend.
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. 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 thethe 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.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.
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