A swastika was found spray-painted on the office door of a Jewish professor, Dr. Elizabeth Midlarsky, who studies the Holocaust and chairs the counseling and clinical psychology
department at the Teachers College at Columbia University. She vehemently opposed the visit to the Columbia campus by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Professor’s name was also crossed out in brown spray paint.
department at the Teachers College at Columbia University. She vehemently opposed the visit to the Columbia campus by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Professor’s name was also crossed out in brown spray paint.
Midlarsky said anti-Semitic hate mail had been left in her Teacher’s College mail box three times starting on Oct. 17.
One of the pieces of hail mail was a cartoon making fun of the Holocaust. Another was leaflet about Arthur Butz, who has written a book denying the Holocaust and congratulated the Iranian president for doing the same.
Midlarsky, whose studies of the Holocaust have focused on acts of kindness by gentiles toward Jews, said she will not let the swastika deter her.
Source:
www.nypost.com
Date: October 31, 2007
By Lucy Carne and Andy Geller
