"In a letter to campus, University President Morton Schapiro said some students protesting to abolish the Northwestern police department chanted, “piggy Morty,” outside his house in the early morning of Oct. 17. Schapiro, an observant Jew, wrote that the slur, “comes dangerously close to a longstanding trope against observant Jews like myself. Whether it was done out of ignorance or out of anti-Semitism.”

But Jewish students who have been active in the abolish the Northwestern Police Department movement and protests took issue with Schapiro’s characterization.

“I think that him claiming that the movement is antisemitic pits the Black community against the Jewish community, an ongoing strife that is decades-long and doesn’t need any more unnecessary fuel,” said a Northwestern senior who is active in campus Jewish life and a fellow with Jewish Council on Urban Affairs in Chicago. She requested anonymity out of concern for reprisal by university authorities.

President Shapiro did not respond to requests for comment."

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