{"id":254809,"date":"2026-06-04T04:08:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254809\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:08:03","slug":"nypd-arrests-nyu-student-accused-of-raising-antisemitic-flag-during-graduation-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/254809\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD arrests NYU student accused of raising antisemitic flag during graduation festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"9ja19\">An NYU student has been arrested after he allegedly raised a flag featuring swastikas and a Star of David during graduation festivities last month, university officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9s3nq\">Police arrested 23-year-old Alexander Stepnowsky, of Fairfield, Connecticut, on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cm7uk\">He was charged with burglary as a hate crime, aggravated harassment and criminal trespassing. His attorney information was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"80ri1\">The arrest stems from a May 14 <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/flag-with-swastikas-and-star-of-david-disrupts-nyu-graduation-event\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">incident<\/a> in which a flag bearing swastikas and a Star of David was raised atop an NYU building overlooking Washington Square Park during graduation festivities.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7dpmh\">NYU cooperated with the NYPD and the Manhattan district attorney&#8217;s office in &#8220;identifying the person responsible for this heinous crime,&#8221; according to university spokesperson Wiley Norvell.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4r7mv\">&#8220;The symbols that were represented are antisemitic and hateful to every person of conscience,&#8221; Norvell said. &#8220;This appalling act violated our sense of community and solidarity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3bqe0\">The incident occurred amid heightened concerns about antisemitism on college campuses and prompted condemnation from university officials and elected leaders.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5dgch\">Charles Lane contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NYU student has been arrested after he allegedly raised a flag featuring swastikas and a Star of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-254809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}