"A swastika was scrawled Wednesday on the office door of a Columbia University professor in the latest shocking hate crime to roil the Ivy League campus.
"It makes the blood boil," said Teachers College Prof. Elizabeth Midlarsky. "This is a terrible act, not just against me, but against any Jewish people at Columbia."
Anti-Semitic vandals also wrote Midlarsky's name and crossed it out, adding a personal dimension to the hatred against the Holocaust scholar, her daughter said.
"It's ironic because I try to focus on the positive," said Midlarsky, who has received three anonymous anti-Semitic flyers in recent weeks. "I make caring speeches, not hateful speeches."
The swastika came just three weeks after a noose was found outside the office of Madonna Constantine, a black Teachers College professor.
Last month, Columbia University invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak on campus. Midlarsky's husband blamed the spurt of hate crimes squarely on the infamous hatemonger and Holocaust-denier.
"It's all fallout from Ahmadinejad," said Manus Midlarsky from the family's home in New Jersey. "The next step is physical violence, and that's what I'm worried about."
First of all, Ma'am I for one am sorry that some idiotic young punk defaced your door like that. Terrible what some folks will do in a free country, but the only crime committed was the destruction of private property, because I simply do not believe in referring to some hideous prank as a hate crime. And since liberals despise Jews with pretty much the same fervor as, say, Iranian President Ahmadinnerjacket, this could be a difficult case to solve. I wouldn't worry, though, about it escalating to violence, because liberals only enjoy violence when they've helped pass a law that sees otherwise innocent people attacked by their goon squads masquerading as law enforcement.
Your place of employment honored a man who has called for the death of ALL your people, so a little black paint isn't really all that much in comparison. Now is it.
Shame you had to get it from both ends; your bosses and your students. Perhaps a change of venue would be in order, as Columbia does seem to bring out the worst in people.
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