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Cal Poly student assaulted in antisemitic hate crime

March 4, 2026

By KAREN VELIE

San Luis Obispo police officers are investigating the assault of a Cal Poly student on Saturday night as a hate crime.

Shortly before 10 p.m., a group of males in a large white truck drove by Cal Poly’s Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi while yelling antisemitic slurs at the residents. Five to six college-age males then walked onto the Alpha Epsilon Pi property.

After causing a verbal altercation, one of the suspects punched a member of the Jewish fraternity in the head. The suspects then fled to their truck and drove away.

The suspects were wearing trucker hats, blue jeans and cowboy boots, according to a crime bulletin from the Cal Poly Police Department.

The students reported the crime on Monday. Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong responded with an email to students and staff.

“Hateful acts that target members of our Jewish community are hurtful, disgusting and simply unacceptable,” Armstrong wrote. “Antisemitism and all forms of hate and discrimination run counter to the values at Cal Poly and have no place at our university.”

 


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The headline should have been Ignorance thriving in higher learning.


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The somewhat strongly worded email should put trepidation into all perps from now on.


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Yeeeeaaahhh….the convenience of a lifted truck (with lots of prerequisite off-road lights), and aggie attire, seems a rather stereotyped staged scene.


The aggies and cowboys I grew up with in SLO, and their families, have always been Conservative in politics and relations. Which means everyone was invited, religion or skin color meant nothing. I never met anyone with horseshit on their boots, that was antisemitic, or racist, or hated anyone……..unless that anyone did them personally wrong.


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Seems to me this is exactly the kind of people you’d expect to be antisemitic nowadays. Especially when conservatives have all their antisemitic stars now, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes, Laura Loomer, Alex Jones, Etc Etc.


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Laura Loomer antisemitic!? Lmao, thanks for posting the dumbest thing on the internet today!


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Oh I forgot. She’s Jewish and says weird nazi stuff like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnUbeQYZ9a4) You can use whatever word you want for people like this. Funny how you didn’t object to 3/4ths of the people I listed though.


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The people I expect to be antisemitic these days are teaching or enrolled at universities.


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Fact


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I think it’s a bit funny that if the suspects were described as blue haired or wearing a hijab then the CCN comment section would be a volcano of accusations, tearing hair out complaining about liberals this and that. But because the description is that if hat wearing cowpokes, there is a silent acknowledgement this more likely an instance of right wing antisemitism.


It’s ok folks, antisemitism is rising on the left and the right. It’s a problem that both sides need to come together on – reject the radicalism and the reactionary forces on the wings… Of course there may be fringe people here who don’t quite realize who they’re in bed with.


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Perhaps there is a rise of antisemitism, but moreover there is a rise of antizionism. The antisemitism is a biproduct of the zionism taking place in our own country. When Cal Poly is forced by the President to create an antisemitism task force, it makes people raise an eyebrow. We can only be under zionist control for so long before people start to notice.


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Because, blue haired and hijab’s have always been first and foremost in their very public disdain for Jews?


Show me at least one instance, where jacked up pick-up driving, cowboy boot wearing, American flag waving, Constitution supporting Conservatives went around beating up Jews.


We’ll wait.


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Two frat houses get into a scuffle and it’s just a fight. But if one of the frat houses is Jewish, then it’s an antisemitic, hate crime. We need to wait for facts before we jump to conclusions.


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Or perhaps to also wait for facts before we jump to the tired excuse used for racists..boys will be boys.


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Well when you add antisemetic slurs to the mix, it might just be antisemetic


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This is the # 1 thing , Professors teach their students . Jew Hatred.


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A Jizzie Smollett wannabe sez what?


He also had a MAGA hat on!


The smell test isn’t working.


I await more FACTS before declaring a serious condemnation.


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Agree. Gotta be video of this somewhere.


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