Offensive posters found outside Jewish organization at Tufts University

MEDFORD, Mass. — A Massachusetts university is condemning the posting of what some are calling anti-Semitic flyers outside a campus Jewish organization.

The Tufts Daily student newspaper reports that more than two dozen flyers depicting militarized pigs were found posted on the exterior of the Granoff Family Hillel Center at Tufts University on Tuesday.

One featuring cartoon images of pigs holding guns called for the destruction of the "Israeli Apartheid Forces."

Many of the images date to the 1960s and the Black Panther Party, but Rabbi Naftali Brawer says some were posted on Hillel windows facing inward and "we were clearly targeted as a Jewish center." They were found nowhere else on campus.

Tufts President Anthony Monaco called the posters "profoundly disturbing and hurtful" and says the university is investigating.

In a tweet on Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League of New England condemned the posters, saying they have no place in any community.

"Targeting Jewish students at the place where they feel safest, the Hillel building, is unacceptable on any campus or community," the tweet read. "When Jews are targeted with messages of Israel's destruction, it is blatantly #antiSemitic & should be unequivocally condemned."

Associated Press