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‘You can’t hide’: Jewish student leader targeted at UC Santa Barbara multicultural center

A multicultural center at the University of California Santa Barbara was plastered with signs condemning Zionism and targeting the Jewish student body president by name. 

“You can run but you can’t hide, Tessa Veksler supports genocide,” read one of the many handwritten signs taped to the walls of the center last weekend.

“I do not feel safe on campus,” Veksler, 21, a senior, wrote on Instagram earlier this week in a series of posts that included photos of the signs. “How can Jewish students feel safe at UCSB when they see a Jewish leader being explicitly targeted? This is dehumanizing and rooted in anti-Semitism.” 

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