NYU Investigating After Flag With Swastikas and Star of David is Flown During Graduation
“We are shocked and deeply troubled that this hateful symbol expressing antisemitism was raised on a flagpole overlooking Washington Square Park”
A flag featuring the Star of David, fused with the New York University logo and flanked by two swastikas, was flown over a building owned by NYU during a graduation ceremony this week. The school is investigating.
People on Twitter/X have noted that the building chosen for this sickening demonstration is named for a Jewish donor to the school.
Given everything we have seen in the almost two years following the October 7th attacks, one might easily assume that this was perpetrated by anti-Israel activists somehow connected to the school.
A flag featuring swastikas and a Star of David flew over NYU during graduation today.
The specific building it was flown over was named after a Jewish donor to the school.
Does no one feel shame anymore? pic.twitter.com/k4BHG7Id63
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) May 14, 2026
From NYU’s Washington Square News:
Flag with 2 swastikas spotted on Steinhardt roof during Grad Alley
A blue flag with a Star of David, two swastikas and the letters “NYU” was waving on the roof of the Steinhardt building as hundreds of graduates and family members walked along West Fourth Street during NYU’s annual Grad Alley event shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Passersby at the outdoor celebration spotted the flag — which repeatedly moved up and down the flagpole — before it was removed around 15 minutes later. Shortly after, at least four New York City Police Department officers and five Campus Safety personnel entered the building. An NYU staff member who requested to remain anonymous told WSN the NYPD will review camera footage in the next few days and potentially investigate the incident as a hate crime.
“We are shocked and deeply troubled that this hateful symbol expressing antisemitism was raised on a flagpole overlooking Washington Square Park,” NYU spokesperson Wiley Norvell said in a statement to WSN. “Campus Safety responded immediately to remove it and we are working closely with the NYPD to identify whoever is responsible.”
The staff member said the roof is typically locked and inaccessible to students, but that campus safety or other employees may have access. They said an NYU administrator first reported the incident to the Campus Safety department, although it is unclear who took the flag down.
What did the people who carried this out think it was going to accomplish? What did they gain? If anything, it just makes them seem despicable.
Jewish students celebrating commencement at NYU were met with a deeply disturbing act of antisemitism:
A flag featuring two Nazi swastikas and a Star of David resembling the Israeli flag was briefly displayed from an NYU building.
We thank the university officials who acted… pic.twitter.com/fOSphTYk1I
— American Jewish Committee (@AJCGlobal) May 14, 2026
yes exactly
i don't think people understand the flag. they see the swastika and think it's classical antisemitism. but the perp mixed the swastika with the jewish star, and flew it over a building donated by a jewish philanthropist. the bigot who flew the flag isn't "endorsing…
— Based Jew (@Ranger22421) May 15, 2026
Here’s a video report from CBS News:
The mainstreaming of antisemitism in America over the last few years has been a disgusting thing to behold.
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Investigate away! LOL. They will do no such thing.
They’ll “investigate” just long enough for the incident becomes page ten news and then will quickly and quietly drop the whole matter. Guaranteed.
If they go unpunished or even unidentified they gain a lot. It would mean that blatant antisemitism can operate with impunity on campus. And if they are caught and punished there will be a depressingly large percentage of students and faculty who would regard them as righteous heroes.
Universities are increasingly becoming fortresses of antisemitism and bigotry- with the tacit approval of university administrators.
“Shocked and deeply troubled” = “We didn’t think of it first”. That’s what “shocked cka and deeply disturb(s)” them.
Sorry for the typo: “shocked and deeply disturbed” them.
Just use the Edit button. Oh, wait…
Edit button? We don’t need no stinhing edit button!
I agree, it’s not needed. Use the preview button.
so maga put that flag there,,right??
so why isnt this being brought up by the gop and forced into every conversation that the real communsitnazis are the ones who vote in mamdummi and all the rest !!
come on
if we dont win the cultural battles we are only left with worse options
What does the flag actually mean and why?
1. Jews are Nazis?
2. Nazis are Jews?
3. The Jews have been running the Nazis like they do the rest of the world?
4. The flag is stupid and people who get hurt feelings over a swastika being displayed should eat fewer carbohydrates and more beef and butter?
I think Mayor Mamdani maybe loaned out some items from his personal collection to these students? Having “hurt feelings over a flag” is not the issue it’s the continued normalization of hate and bigorty against Jews while people look the other way, justify it and then blame Jews for it. Obviously the statement was trying to call Jews the new Nazis, and that has been a regular theme of the “antizionist” crowd which is why they bleat out “genocide” and “apartheid” with ever other word their idiot mouths form. Having to graduate with Nazi imagery is disgusting and no one would expect black students at NYU to put up with someone flying the Ku Klux Klan flag during their graduation ceremony. Why only Jews are expected to put up with this endless barage of hatred is beyond my comprehension.
The level of constant harassment of individuals and the unending provocations, like display of this flag at a graduation event, should not be tolerated. Especially not by leaders who claim to be interested in preserving civil society v allowing degeneration into warring tribes/factions in tit for tat escalation and retribution. If the leadership of Univ in blue jurisdictions fail to quash this crap then maybe the current/potential Students and their Parents should consider attending Univ elsewhere who will welcome them. Go where you’re appreciated instead of remaining where you’re, at best, resented.
jews..arm yourselves and go in large groups and defend yourselves against the bullies, by any means necessary
then watch the “authorities” show up to prevent violence
Outside of Israel, armed Jews will live about 10 minutes longer than unarmed Jews.
You get used to seeing swastikas if you’ve spent time in SE Asia. Has nothing to do with Germany or Nazis. Maybe it’s a Buddhist showing solidarity with Israel. /s
It’s also a Hindu symbol.
Ha! Yeah, and maybe the professors at NYU vote republican and were showing solidarity with Tucker Carlson? Equally as unlikely.
Sorry. Downvote a mistake.
I’m not shocked at all that such a flag was shown,
The scary fact is that they are “investigating” at all.
The flag – as despicable as it may be – is still protected under the First Amendment.
See: National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie
Your comment is simply wrong on a Constitutional basis, unless the owner of the building decided to fly that flag, which it didn’t.
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