Jewish university students woke up this week to find evictions notices had been stuck to their bedroom doors in support of Palestine.

Several mock eviction notices were stuck on student dorm rooms at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, on the morning of April 2.

The notices, that told students that ‘eviction notices are routinely given to Palestinian families living under Israeli occupation for no other reason than their ethnicity’, have been branded racist and anti-Semitic.

The notices discovered at Emory University dorm rooms in Atlanta, Georgia

Students were told: ‘We regret to inform you that your suite is scheduled for demolition in three days’ in the notes said to have been stuck onto several doors as part of Israeli Apartheid Week.




The notices stated that evictions in Palestine were ‘part of the state of Israel’s outgoing attempts to ethnically cleanse the region’.

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Emory student Anthony Wong wrote in an opinions piece for student newspaper The Emory Wheel, that Emory Students for Justice in Palestine (ESJP) were behind the notices.

He praised ESJP ‘for starting the discussion’ about Palestinian home demolitions.

But Rabbi Russ Shukles, who heads the Hillel of Georgia, told WSB-TV Atlanta that he thought the notices were ‘racist, anti-Semitic and absolutely offensive’.

‘From anger to fear to security issues, how could Emory allow this to take place?’ the rabbi said.

The story began circulating online as students shared the notices to Twitter and Facebook.

Emory University said it would be investigating to determine the next course of action (Picture: Wikipedia)

Jewish students with Mezuzahs on their doors @EmoryUniversity woke up this morning to these “eviction notices”. It’s not the Jews, it’s just Israel they said.. pic.twitter.com/5zSIEwbH1r — Leibel Mangel (@LeibelMangel) April 3, 2019

Emory Hillel director Dave Cohn told the Algemeiner that there wasn’t any evidence indicating that Jewish students were specifically targeted by the notices.

In an email he said the community would defend the safety of students ‘from this intrusion on their privacy and security’.

The university told Algemeiner that the notices were taken down because they violated the university’s posting guidelines.

It also said permission was not given for them to be posted on students’ doors and they are determining the next course of action.

Emory Students for Justice in Palestine have not yet responded to requests for comment.

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