Swastikas in Buena Vista Park

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San Franciscans living near Buena Vista Park in the Height-Ashbury neighborhood were greeted this morning by over a dozen swastikas painted on the pedestrian walkway surrounding the park.

Park officials quickly painted over the swastikas and are reviewing surveillance tapes in an effort to identify the responsible party.

UC Berkeley targeted with Anti-Semitic flyers

The ink was scarcely dry on the UC Regents statement condemning anti-Semitism, when UC Berkeley was targeted in an spam attack featuring anti-Semitic rhetoric

Copies of an anti-Semitic flyer were discovered in a shared printer in Dwinelle 7222 on the Cal campus. Other universities also reported receiving the flyers  including  the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Smith College, Mt. Holyoke College, Northeastern University in Boston, Clark University  and Brown University, Princeton University, DePaul University in Chicago, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and UC Davis 

The flier was adorned with swastikas and read: “White man, are you sick and tired of the Jews destroying your country through mass immigration and degeneracy? Join us in the struggle for global white supremacy,” 

The Daily Stormer is considered by the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center to be a neo-Nazi website and hate site.

Stanford Campus Defaced with Swastikas

This weekend,  several residential facilities on the Stanford campus were defaced with swastikas. The vandalism was condemned widely as a hate crime, by student groups, religious leaders and university administrators. Stanford police are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime under its Acts of Intolerance Protocol.

Stanford President John Hennessy has condemned the early Sunday morning vandalism of swastikas spray-painted around student residences as an act of hate "that has no place at Stanford..."

"I am deeply troubled by the act of vandalism, including symbols of hate, that has marred our campus," Hennessy said Sunday. "The university will not tolerate hate crimes and this incident will be fully investigated, both by campus police and by the university under our Acts of Intolerance Protocol. This level of incivility has no place at Stanford. I ask everyone in the university community to stand together against intolerance and hate, and to affirm our commitment to a campus community where discourse is civil, where we value differences, and where every individual is respected."

Later, hundreds attended a Stand in Solidarity against AntiSemitism Vigil in White plaza organized by Jewish groups on campus.

According to the Stanford review, 

Similar Neo-Nazi graffiti incidents have occurred on many college campuses. UC Berkeley, UCDavis, Harvard, Yale, George Washington University — to name a few —  have all had reported incidents of anti-semitic graffiti.