Illustrative. Antisemitic graffiti sprayed on “The Rock” at the University of Michigan. Photo: Twitter.

The University of Michigan on Wednesday denounced an act of vandalism that occurred at the school’s Jewish Resource Center.

The incident marks the second such incident at a Jewish-centered location on the Ann Arbor campus in three months.

In a statement, the university’s president, Santa J. Ono, said a homophobic message was graffitied on the sidewalk in front of the building.

“The Jewish Resource Center is an important and valued part of our campus community,” Ono said. “These incidents are in direct conflict with the university’s deeply held values of respect and inclusion and have no place within our community.”

In another incident that happened at the university last month, the house of Greek fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu was graffitied with a swastika and homophobic slur on two windows and the front door.

Other acts of hate have occurred at the University of Michigan in recent years.

Last fall, during the Jewish High Holidays, antisemitic flyers attributed to the Goyim Defense League, an extremist fringe group, were spread around campus. Around the same time, Students for Allied Freedom and Equality (SAFE), an anti-Zionist group on campus, erected an “apartheid wall” on campus and led an anti-Israel protest in front of it.

Additionally, in January, SAFE protesters at the University of Michigan accused US Vice President Kamala Harris of “genocide” for supporting Israel, chanting, “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide, you’re committing genocide.”

StopAntisemitism, a nonprofit that tracks antisemitic incidents around the world, has noted that the University of Michigan scored a C in its Sept. 2022 campus climate report, which examined the best and worst universities for Jewish students.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, 219 antisemitic incidents occurred on US college campuses last year, a 41 percent increase from 2021. The total included 127 incidents of harassment, 90 of vandalism, and two of assault. Meanwhile, 19 percent of incidents referenced Israel and Zionism, 25 total incidents targeted Hillel centers, and about one third involved swastika imagery.

Last month, American nonprofit leaders testified before an Israeli parliamentary committee to discuss rising antisemitism on US college campuses.. One of them — Alyza Lewin, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, said it was crucial for Israeli lawmakers to learn of the severity of the antisemitism emanating from across the political spectrum.

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