ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Four University of Rochester students face felony criminal mischief charges after “wanted” posters appeared on campus.

The posters accused faculty and staff, some Jewish, of alleged war crimes in Gaza. The students will not face hate crime charges. News10NBC has reaction from both the Jewish community and Palestine supporters.

Meredith Dragon, CEO of the Jewish Federation, said she’s glad that the school took swift action.

“Initially, obviously, I was really disturbed by the content and the quantity of the posters. The crime was taken seriously, which was great to see,” she said.

“I commend the administration at the University of Rochester for taking this criminal activity seriously. Obviously, being charged with a crime is a very big deal. And to see that in such a short amount of time, the university responded swiftly and found out who the supposed perpetrators are, I think is indicative of these kinds of activities not being tolerated in our community.”

On the other hand, Kimberly Nelson, a pro-Palestinian advocate, criticized the university’s response.

“I think that the U of R is heavily invested in Israel. I think they have dual programs in Israel and I think that the students are asking them, like students all over the country, to disclose their investments. And the students are demanding that they don’t invest in genocide,” Nelson said.

Nelson often protests near the UR campus against the War in Gaza. She says criticism of Israel’s war crimes shouldn’t be equated to antisemitism.

“If any country in the world’s military was doing this, I would fight against it,” she said. “I would say it needs to stop. It does not have anything to do with the fact that people in Israel have the Jewish faith. I don’t think it’s probably a good idea to, conflate the two. And I don’t think they necessarily need to be. I know, actually, people from Jewish Voices for Peace, who don’t feel it is something that goes together with their faith.”

A fifth person is still under investigation by UR Public Safety. Public Safety says they’ve consulted several law enforcement agencies and the incident may be upgraded to a hate crime over the course of legal proceedings.

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