A suspect in the months-long antisemitic and threatening graffiti spree at San Jos\u00e9 State University was arrested on Wednesday, the administration and SJSU Police Department (SJSUPD) announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Since fall 2025, threatening messages and racist graffiti<\/a> targeting Jewish, Muslim, black, and Asian students have appeared across the campus, which SJSU President Cynthia Teniente-Matson said in a statement had caused “real harm” to the student body.<\/p>\n “The acts have targeted individuals and communities we proudly welcome to SJSU, and I hope you all join me in condemning hate and violence while standing in solidarity with our community,” Teniente-Matson said on Thursday.<\/p>\n Incidents began in October with racist and discriminatory messages found in student housing and on residents’ bulletin boards, according to a dedicated official university webpage created to track the incidents. The following month, antisemitic, anti-Asian, and anti-Muslim<\/a> graffiti and threats of violence were found in the bathroom of MacQuarrie Hall, leading to the opening of an investigation and increasing foot patrols.<\/p>\n Senator Bill Cassidy said in a March 20 statement that the fall incident included drawings of swastikas and threats of mass shootings.<\/p>\n On March 4, threats were scrawled in the same hall’s bathroom, according to correspondence between the California State University Chancellor’s Office and Cassidy, threatening a terrorist attack on March 11.<\/p>\n \u201cSJSU, Sorry, But for Allah 3\/11 Will Be 9\/11,\u201d was graffitied alongside \u201cKill All Jews,\u201d according to Cassidy. Other messages seemed to promise the “goal” of “five Jews min[imum]” and to “make [Al Qaeda leader] Osama<\/a> [Bin Laden] proud.”<\/p>\n University increases efforts to end threatening graffiti<\/p>\n In response, University police bolstered their manpower and began to work with other law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n Similar threats were made again on March 24 with graffiti threatening violence against Jews in bathroom stalls, according to the SJSUPD. Further threatening graffiti was discovered in the bathrooms again on April 3 and April 8.<\/p>\n Two more messages were left on April 28, at the Student Union and the Art Building, threatening an attack on May 4.<\/p>\n