On the night of October 3rd, someone burned down a sukkah (a temporary structure to remind the Jews of living in the desert while being led by Moses) at the Hillel (Jewish Center) at San Jose State University. Sukkah are used to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles, known as Sukkot in Hebrew.
A student arrived Wednesday morning and found the sukkah — made of a metal frame and nylon walls — melted, said Sue Maltiel, executive director of Hillel of Silicon Valley.
Police and Hillel officials believe the fire was deliberately set but was not a hate crime. There were no notes or messages indicating anything other than vandalism, said Sgt. Mike Santos with university police, noting that the campus is downtown and vagrants often sleep on Hillel’s patio.
So the fire was deliberately set but it was not a hate crime? Yeah, right.
At least the University of California at Davis had the guts to call the defacing of a sukkah on its campus a hate crime.
Student Programs and Activities Center representatives reported a hate crime yesterday, as graffiti was found defacing a small hut on the Quad being used for a Jewish holiday.
The booth, called a Sukkot or Sukkos, was set up on the east Quad as part of a weeklong celebration of one of three Jewish holidays known collectively as Shalosh Regalim.
The graffiti was discovered by SPAC and then reported to several organizations on campus, including the UC Davis Police Department and Hillel. Mike Amerikaner, program director of Hillel, said that the vandalism is unrelated to the holiday, though it made reference to Israel.
“This is a religious structure that has nothing to do with Israel,” he said.
Amerikaner went on to add that this case of vandalism is indicative of a larger problem on campus.
“This is not something that’s new. We’ve been dealing with anti-Semitism on campus for awhile now,” he said.
Anti-Semitism is spreading across the globe and, as usual, is conducted by the political left (Hitler has somehow been morphed into a right-winger, but he was head of the National Socialist German Workers Party. I’m not going to give any links because I don’t want these sites to receive any hits, but any cursory glance at left-wing blogsites will show you anti-Semitism of the grossest sort. It’s usually described as anti-Zionism to give it a politically correct name but is definitely anti-Jewish.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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