Anti-Semitic graffiti found at Columbia.

An anti-semitic message that included a swastika was found etched into the wall of a bathroom at Columbia University on Thursday, just two days after a noose was discovered hanging from the door of a professor at Teachers College.

In a message to the Columbia community, President Lee Bollinger said he was saddend by the second incident of hate in a week.

"One of the bathrooms in Lewisohn Hall -was sullied with an anti-Semitic smear," said Bollinger's note. "It has been promptly removed and is now being investigated."

I'd suggest that the invitation to the Iranian president to speak at Columbia created a hostile environment that encouraged anti-Semitism, but it is well-documented that such an environment has existed and been encouraged by faculty members there for years.