Flyers with Nazi swastikas were posted at a California school just days after a Holocaust survivor shared her firsthand horrors with students who had posted anti-Semitic photographs during a party.
Ten flyers were discovered at Newport Harbor High School on Sunday morning. Police were called and the flyers were removed. While posting the flyers is not a crime, Newport Beach police are investigating.
School principal Sean Boulton said in a statement: “Again we condemn all acts of anti-Semitism and hate in all their forms. We will continue to be vigilant with our stance, and the care of our students and staff.”
But one senior at the school, Max Drakeford, called the latest episode “super disheartening — a step backward.”
Drakeford, whose grandmother survived the Holocaust, said the posters “send a message that we aren’t welcome at our own school.”
Katrina Foley, mayor of the neighboring city of Costa Mesa, where the party was held, said she felt there was a sinister motive.
“That tells me that there is a small group of people who want to intimidate students from speaking out. We should not allow that to happen, she told CNN’s Sara Sidner. “They are trying to intimidate an entire community from speaking out.”
Rabbi Reuven Mintz, who has been working with the school district to educate students about the Holocaust, said he believed the posters were put up by an outside group, not students.
In my opinion a swastika should equal a crime. I find it highly offensive seeing it, INCLUDING on this site and in Jewish newspapers. This emblem, and what it stands for, should be destroyed and it should rot. It must cause terrible distress to a survivor who sees it. Also whoever is responsible should be made to sit and watch through every detailed harrowing news real of when the camps were liberated and every holocaust movie that exists. Plus why not take them to the actual Auschwitz and let them see it all first hand and if all that makes… Read more »
Although they cloak their hate as anti-Israel