Hoax or real? Mysterious Swastika Incident at Yale Law School Late Saturday night - between the Jewish High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur - anti-Semitic graffiti appeared on the steps of the side entrance to Yale Law School. The graffiti depicted a white, spray-painted swastika above the word "Trump." By noon on Sunday, the graffiti was covered with black paint and a doormat. It has since been removed entirely. On Monday, Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken issued a statement to the YLS community reaffirming the school's values, offering support and notifying the community of an upcoming investigation. "We are saddened by this act of hate against our community at any time but understand that this is particularly difficult occurring between the High Holy Days," said Ellen Cosgrove, associate dean of students at Yale Law School. "Diversity and inclusion are core values of our institution [and] attacks against individual students or communities of students will not be tolerated." This does have all the hallmarks of a hoax. It's on a college campus, and a ridiculously elite institution at that. Still it could be the real deal, but when the college suddenly starts getting non-communicative, my hoax radar goes off... Having informed law school and broader communities that a hate crime took place at the law school, I find it mysterious that the school has neither released the surveillance footage nor provided any updates as to the progress of the investigation.
Seeing that most of these events turn out to be fraudulent we should view them as such until the investigation proves otherwise.
Anti-Semitic Hate Crime at Yale Law? A white supremacist student at Yale? Now that's hard to fathom. It takes a hell of a lot more than just a shaved head and some black boots to be accepted into an Ivy League school.