Jewish leaders at a California university told The Algemeiner “it’s no coincidence” that a cartoon mocking Judaism was published in the student newspaper on the first day of Palestine Awareness Week (PAW).

Rabbi Dovid Gurevich, co-director of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Chabad center, said, “It’s highly improbable that the timing” of The Daily Bruin’s printing of the drawing — of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing in front of an edited Ten Commandments that reads, “Thou shalt steal,” with the caption, “Israel passes law legalizing seizing any Palestinian land” and a bubble saying, “#7 [Thou shalt not kill] is next “– was not meant to coincide with the start of PAW.

“They [the cartoon and PAW] have the same goal of focusing on and demonizing Israel,” Gurevich said.

Rabbi Aaron Lerner — executive director of Hillel at UCLA — called the cartoon “disturbing,” and said it went beyond the anti-Israel editorials he has come to expect during the annual PAW, which is hosted by the school’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) “to raise awareness about the Palestinian struggle for justice & the Palestinian people’s resistance against the Israeli occupation,” according to organizers.

While the drawing has since been removed from the paper’s website following widespread denunciation — as well as apologized for by the editorial staff and condemned by university administrators — Lerner said SJP’s statement that the “illustrator has no affiliation” with the group is “simply a lie.” He cited a 2015 Daily Bruins article identifying the cartoonist, Felipe Bris Abejón, as SJP’s “education and resources director” as proof of a relationship. (Abejón did not respond to The Algemeiner‘s request for comment.)

Though Lerner commended the UCLA administration and The Daily Bruin editors for their swift response to the cartoon, he said that “the underlying complaint remains.”