“Wanted” posters targeting several Jewish faculty members recently appeared at the University of Rochester, according to the school’s president.

President Sarah C. Mangelsdorf argued that these people may have been singled out because they were Jewish. statement. He noted that there were other people targeted by the posters, including university board members.

The posters declared several university professors and staff members “wanted” for war crimes related to the Gaza war, which began with Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. WHEC Reported.

The newspaper said one of the people “wanted” for allegedly making anti-Semitic posters was Joy Getnick of the university’s Hillel School. She told the media that the posters “spread harmful anti-Semitic ideas about Jews and Israel.” They are furthering the spread of anti-Semitic hatred on our campuses with the goal of instilling fear. ”

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the posters officials reported were “class intimidation” and that he had contacted school administrators to open an investigation.

“Those responsible must be held fully accountable. These actions must be loudly condemned,” Schumer wrote of X.

Targeting Jewish and other professors with “wanted” posters is class intimidation. And anti-Semitic.

I’m in contact with the administrator. @UofR He called for a prompt investigation.

Those responsible must take full responsibility. Such acts must be loudly condemned. https://t.co/kfeN2QrtaX

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) November 12, 2024

“My first reaction was just disbelief,” said Meredith Dragon, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester. “So I believe it was targeted at the Jewish community and people who have close ties in the Jewish community.” (Related article: A teacher who hates Trump is said to have wanted his daughter to have an “unwanted pregnancy.” Currently under investigation.)

In a statement, Mangelsdorf criticized the poster. “This conduct is disturbing, divisive, coercive and contrary to our values ​​as a university,” she added.

The president pointed to the school’s Department of Public Safety and said it was investigating the incident.

“Posters and displays such as these are unacceptable and are considered vandalism to university property,” Department of Public Safety Secretary Kuchy Collins said in a statement. statement. “Additionally, the purpose of this vandalism appears to be to intimidate members of the university community.”

The university’s chapter of the student-run Jewish Voice for Peace criticized the university’s apparent belief that the poster was anti-Semitic, calling it “the University of Rochester’s response to the ongoing genocide by Israeli forces in Gaza. “an attempt to censor any discussion of collusion,” WHEC reported.

The student-run group claimed it did not know who put up the “wanted” posters, the paper said.

“Anti-Semitism is identity-based prejudice and hatred against Jewish people, and we unequivocally oppose it and work to dismantle it, along with all forms of oppression. “It is not anti-Semitism to criticize the Israeli government and military,” the group continued.