Meanwhile, a campus investigation is underway after a painted logo
of UNF Jewish Student Union was vandalized this week.
And now the president of the student group is sounding
the alarm over concerns of anti-Semitism on campus.
Action News Jax Logan McDonald is live there from UNF
now.
Logan, you spoke with students there today about how they
feel on campus.
One student, Don, who outlined the need to stand in
solidarity with their fellow Jewish classmates during this time,
and the other, the president of the Jewish Student Union,
who outlined her optimism of finding the person responsible.
President of UNF Jewish Osprey sounding the alarm over anti-Semitism
after a painted logo outside the student union was vandalized
with words being scraped off of the paint.
You could see it right here on your screen on
the second day of Passover.
What they actually scraped off was the word ahava,
which means love. So you're just proving to everybody that
you know,
at best you're ignorant and at worst you're just hateful.
Haley Jacobson, president of the on campus Jewish student group,
says this unfortunately marks just the latest.
In a series of anti-Semitic acts on campus,
we've had the swastikas, we've had groups on campus protesting,
we've had, you know, unfortunate comments on the Chabad's Instagram
or people just saying bad things when we're tabling at
the market days.
Now an active investigation and search is underway with campus
police,
one that Jacobson is hopeful about but says comes at
an opportune timing with most Jewish students who may be
able to help find the person responsible having gone home
already for Passover nonetheless. Evan Fountain outlines the need for
all Ospreys,
Jewish or not, to stand in solidarity with their Jewish
classmates during this time.
God created us all, each the same.
You know, he created me just like he created you,
just like he created each and every one of us.
So it's, it's important that,
you know, we stand for each other and.
Stand together.
And we've reached.
We reached out to the university multiple times for comment
but have yet to hear back.
We'll be sure to provide updates as we learn more.
Local cubic count on reporting live from UNF I'm Logan
McDonald,
Action News Jax.