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Cal Poly Told Jewish Students To ‘Hide Their Jewish Identity’ To Avoid Anti-Semitic Harassment, Federal Complaint Says

Pro-Hamas activists at the school pelted Jews with fake blood

Founder’s Hall at Cal Poly Humboldt (Wikimedia Commons)

After Jewish students at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, were taunted with anti-Semitic slurs and pelted with fake blood, administrators encouraged them to “hide their Jewish identity to avoid being targeted,” according to a federal civil rights complaint filed against the school on Thursday.

The students said pro-Hamas activists harassed them as they celebrated the High Holiday of Sukkot, holding a demonstration next to their religious ceremony and chalking “inflammatory anti-Semitic messages” near the religious service, “including ‘Go Away Nazis.’”

In other incidents, the activists disrupted a vigil for victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks by drawing a “Zio Corner” chalk circle around it and throwing red paint at Jewish…

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