The display drew harsh criticism from President Liz Magill, who was named in one of the projected messages, which called on her to support a “ceasefire now.”

“Last night, vile, antisemitic messages were projected onto several campus buildings, including on Penn Commons, Huntsman Hall, and Irvine Auditorium,” she posted on Instagram Thursday, adding that police responded once they were notified of the display and that an investigation of the incident is underway.

“For generations, too many have masked antisemitism in hostile rhetoric,” she continued. “These reprehensible messages are an assault on our values and cause pain and fear for our Jewish community. Penn has a long and rich history of robust debate about complicated issues of the day. Projecting hateful messages on our campus is not debate, it is cowardice, and it has no place at Penn.”

Wednesday’s incident and Magill’s response to it come following criticism of the school’s actions in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.

[It’s better than *nothing*, perhaps, and Penn offered a lot of nothing for quite a while after the anti-Semitic actions began at the school. It won’t be enough until the perpetrators of these incidents are identified and expelled, pour encourager les autres. — Ed]