Hamilton College student admits to posting antisemitic remarks on campus, police say
A Hamilton College student has been charged with posting antisemitic remarks on campus, authorities said Monday.
New York State Police’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation responded to the private college located in upstate New York on Friday after receiving “a report of antisemitic remarks being posted on art canvases on campus,” police said in a news release.
Hamilton College said in a statement that on the evening of Oct. 10, a “community mural project was vandalized.” The school conducted its own investigation and student 19-year-old Adyn S. Brenden, from South Dakota, was identified as a suspect in “defacing of college property with hate speech.”
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During the interview Brenden said he observed a poster with all pro-Palestinian content on campus and he wrote “Kill the Jews wherever you find them” and drew swastikas. He said he wrote that message to “show people what was underlining the pro-Palestinian movement other than just the surface of what people saw,” and said he drew the swastikas to relate “what happened in Nazi Germany to what is happening today in Palestine.”
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