It appears the recent conflicts in the Middle East have spurred an uptick anti-Semitism in the area surrounding UCLA.
Ant-Semitic flyers have been found near the UCLA campus. A flyer bearing the words "Wanted" and "Warning" with swastikas was put under the door of a store owned by a Jewish man.
"I don’t know why some people are against Judaism," the store’s owner told CBSLA. "I was very deeply sad," he added. The store owner sought spiritual counsel from Rabbi Boruch Cunin at Chabad House near UCLA.
The new leaflets come after similar flyers were found in Valley Village in June.
Students by the UCLA campus were stunned to hear about the anti-Semitic flyers. "This is ridiculous…My boyfriend is Jewish. I have so many Jewish friends. There’s a Jewish frat just down the street. I cannot believe that this is happening," Shannon Charrette, a student at UCLA, said.
UCLA has recently come under fire for their anti-Israel views. Empowered Arab Sisterhood, a UCLA sorority group, erased Israel from a map distributed to students.
In May, a UCLA professor called on students with "Jewish-sounding" names to lobby their senators to vote against a bipartisan measure that would essentially "level sanctions on Iran."