An antisemitic note threatening Jews was found at a Hillel center that serves students attending Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), a campus newspaper reported on Tuesday.
“It’s not an easy moment for Jewish students,” Hillel Rabbi Josh Bolton told the Brown Daily Herald. “It’s scary to have this type of rhetoric show up in your home.”
Bolton also called on “Non-Jewish partners…to stand up and say, ‘anti-Jewish hatred has no place here. Antisemitic rhetoric has no place in the university.”
The Herald added that the university’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Providence Police Department are investigating the incident, the third within the last five months. In July and August, swastikas were carved on a tree and wall panel.
Neither agency DPS nor the Providence Police Department has responded to The Algemeiner’s request for comment. DPS has urged students to use an online Silent Witness Form to report anonymously any information they may have about the incident.
