Mahwah, NJ - Anti-Hate Rally is Set

Mahwah, NJ - Student leaders at Ramapo College have scheduled an anti-hate rally for next week in response to recent incidents at the college.

During the past week, anti-Semitic messages have been scrawled on a student's vehicle and three dormitory rooms. Mahwah police are investigating. "I deplore this shameful and intolerable act and assure the community that we are trying to identify the perpetrator," college President Peter Philip Mercer wrote in an e-mail message to the university.

The first incident occurred, when someone outlined the words "I hate Jews" on a window of a car in the school parking lot, according to the president's e-mail and police reports. The owner of the vehicle isn't Jewish, and the message didn't appear to target her, said township police Capt. Stephen Jaffe.
The other student notified school security that she remembered seeing a crudely carved swastika on the side of a building a few weeks before.