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This incident is different. Several aspects of the vandalism, which caused portions of the roof to cave in and left half the sukkah unusable, strongly suggest that this incident was motivated by anti-Semitism. University officials and police are taking the issue seriously; they have been in touch with Hillel Director Sally Finestone, and are pursuing an investigation to find the perpetrators...
...refer to the vandalism of the Hillel sukkah (a temporary structure built and used by Jews in observance of the holiday Sukkot) on the corner of Holyoke and Winthrop Sts. Of course, not every act damaging a Jewish structure can or should be viewed as anti-Semitism. In the past, for example, Hillel's sukkah was damaged when students who did not know the structure's significance allegedly did chin-ups on the supporting bars, causing it to partially collapse. Appropriately, their ignorance was not misconstrued as enmity...
...flipped so as to make the structure even more unstable. The poles were left standing, so that the damage was not obvious. Since the bolts were about 15 feet above the ground, they could only have been reached by standing on the rickety folding chairs and tables in the sukkah. That would have required a degree of balance and dexterity rare enough when sober, and certainly absent when intoxicated...
...addition, the corner where the sukkah stands, tucked between the Owl and Spee Clubs and en route to Lowell and Winthrop, is frequently passed by students until late at night. Either the vandals were extremely careful to make no noise and attract no attention, or the crime took place after people had gone to bed, perhaps at 2:00 or 3:00 a.m., or even later. That people would go to such trouble on a cold weekend night to disturb and endanger Jews is extremely upsetting. It also implies a motive stronger than an ignorant impulse for destruction...
Take this sentence: "The Mideast political turmoil has led some critics of Israel to express their views by vandalizing sukkashs." It is a classic of faculty logic that works something like this: some anti-Semites in America have recently desecrated sukkahs: other Americans have recently criticized Israel; therefore, the sukkah-desecrators must be "critics of Israel" and the critics of Israel must sympathize with the sukkah-desecrators...