UMD President Pines condemns alleged antisemitic hate crime

University of Maryland’s president, Darryll J. Pines, notified the school’s community of an active investigation into an alleged antisemitic hate crime in an email on Monday.

Pines condemned the alleged hate crime within the email, referring to an image posted on a social media application that “targets a Jewish member of our community.” The image has since been deleted.

“On behalf of the university, I would like to stress that we strongly condemn antisemitism and all acts of hate,” Pines said in the email.

Pines stressed that the action violated the terms of UMD’s missions and values. He also encouraged students who have tips and more information to contact UMPD. The Bias Incident Support Services, Counseling Center and the Dean of Students office were all cited as other resources for students impacted by hateful or biased incidents.

That same day, Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety David B. Mitchell sent out an alert through the UMD Alerts channel, a university communications system that allows all community members to receive incident reports directly in their inboxes.

The university keeps track of hate crimes through its Bias Dashboard. 

At the time of publication, there had been 25 bias incidents reported during the spring semester, 17 in February and seven in March. The most recent was reported on the last day of March.

The university did not have any additional comments at the time of publication.

This story will be updated.