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Last update - 23:14 31/10/2007 Swastika painted on Jewish professor's door in N.Y. By Reuters Tags: anti-Semitic graffiti  Police are investigating a third suspected hate crime at New York's Columbia University after a swastika was spray-painted on the office door of a Jewish faculty member on Wednesday. The university confirmed the Teachers College incident in a statement. Police said they were investigating, but declined further comment. "We feel we've been targeted precisely because Teachers College is, and h Advertisement istorically has been, a center for deep multicultural work," a statement issued by Teachers College President Susan Furhman said. Columbia's Teachers College, part of the university campus in upper Manhattan, houses the nation's oldest and largest graduate school of education. New York City is known for its racial and ethnic diversity, and the suspected hate crimes follow recent national attention and protests in Jena, Louisiana, where three nooses were found hanging from a tree at a high school there last year. Nooses are a potent symbol of racist lynchings in the United States On Oct. 10 a black professor discovered a noose outside her Teachers College office. The next day a caricature of a man wearing a yarmulke above a swastika was found on a bathroom door at the School of General Studies. The Columbia incidents earlier this month sparked a campus protest and a separate forum in which students aired grievances about racial incidents. A spate of crimes followed in New York City in which blacks and Jews were harassed with swastikas and nooses, leading police to believe it was the work of copycats. Related articles: Swastika drawn on French Jewish woman in anti-Semitic attack Swastika daubed on synagogue in Germany on Rosh Hashana eve Vandals paint swastika on Berlin memorial to Holocaust victims More Jewish World news and features Bookmark to del.icio.us   JDate wins the 'Oscars' The leading Jewish dating Web site is an official honoree of the Webby Awards. 'Worse than Nazi camp' A Libyan envoy to the UN says the situation in Gaza is worse than in concentration camps.   1.   It`s Judeo-Fascist Week at Columbia 23:18  |  POP 31/10/07   2.   Columbia and Ahmedinejad 00:48  |  Yaakov Noach 01/11/07   3.   #1 Judeo-Facist 01:03  |  David 01/11/07   4.   TO # 1 POP, islamofascist 01:23  |  Mark Bernadiner 01/11/07   5.   A Local firm just fired some folks 02:09  |  Mark Lincoln 01/11/07   6.   "It`s not because he`s Jewish, but he supports Israel"... 04:49  |  Chavez-mania 01/11/07   7.   Mark Bernadiner # 4 tramples over Haaretz guidelines 04:57  |  Fortuna Benmayor 01/11/07   8.   chaves-mania 22:21  |  eva 01/11/07   9.   They should`ve sprayed his forehead 04:10  |  Shlomo Bin Ladin 02/11/07   10.   Shlomo #9 00:32  |  Steve 25/04/08   11.   To Eva 04:13  |  George Jochnowitz 25/04/08

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