Police are investigating anti-Semitic vandalism at a Denver elementary school

[TexasTowelie]

Denver police are investigating an incident in which someone used gasoline on Monday night to burn an anti-Semitic symbol on asphalt near the playground at Ellis Elementary School in the southeast part of the city, according to the school district.

“Hate will never be welcome in Denver Public Schools,” Superintendent Susana Cordova wrote in a letter Tuesday to families and district employees. (Read it below.) She added that she wanted “to take this opportunity to encourage all of us to stand united against hate. I want to encourage all of us to raise our voices in opposition to this action and all types of hate speech.”

Ellis Elementary Principal Nichole Whiteman said in a separate letter that she had notified the staff at the school about the incident but would not be making an announcement to students.

“We do not believe any student saw the hateful image,” she wrote in the letter, also on view below. “However, they may have seen police officers present at our school today.”

Read more: https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2019/04/10/police-are-investigating-anti-semitic-vandalism-at-a-denver-elementary-school/

[Behind the Aegis]

1. It's coming.

I wonder how many of us have to die before people consider anti-Semitism to be a legitimate form of bigotry without conditions.

[TexasTowelie]

2. It's sad and I can only hope that bigotry is seen neither as legitimate or moral.

I have family members who try to justify it jokingly and I speak out against it each time.