Drexel University is a private research university in Philadelphia, dating from 1891, and now separated by only an alleyway between 32nd and 33rd Streets in the University City section of the city. For undergraduates in general programs, total cost of three quarters per year, including housing, is $83,818 for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Police investigating vandalism at Drexel Jewish center as ‘hate crime,’ university says
Video shows masked individuals removing letters from the sign outside the Raymond G. Perelman Center for Jewish Life, the university’s president said.
by Robert Moran | Tuesday, April 2, 2024 | 7:48 PM EDT
Drexel University said Tuesday that police were investigating as a hate crime the vandalism of a sign outside the Raymond G. Perelman Center for Jewish Life.
In a message to students and staff, Drexel president John Fry said several metal letters were removed from the brick marquee of the building by a group of masked people. The episode occurred at the end of spring break, he said. Students returned to campus on Monday.
The vandalism was discovered on Sunday and immediately reported to police, a university spokesperson said in an email.
“As I write, Drexel Public Safety and Philadelphia police are jointly investigating this incident, which was captured on video, as a hate crime,” Fry said.
He called the case “an egregious act of vandalism” and said that any form of vandalism, including graffiti, at the university “does not constitute any legitimate form of protest.”
So, even the President of the University is linking the vandalism to pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas sentiment, such as has been seen across that alleyway at the University of Pennsylvania. Don’t tell me that these protests, supposedly just about Israel’s response to the war Hamas started, isn’t anti-Semitic as well.