A swastika was found spray-painted on the office door of a Teachers College professor at Columbia University known for her research on the Holocaust.

Professor Elizabeth Midlarsky, who is Jewish, said she feels personally attacked. “It’s not going to stop me but I’m certainly shaken. I go back and forth between frightened and furious.”

Officers from the New York Police Department’s Crime Scene unit and Public Safety guards huddled around 328 Horace Mann Hall early Wednesday afternoon. Police said the swastika was found at 8 a.m. Wednesday morning, and they are treating the incident as a hate crime. In a statement, administrators said that the swastika was found on the door of a Jewish professor.

Midlarsky belongs to the department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology. CCP is where Madonna Constantine, the African American TC professor who had a noose hung on her door three weeks ago, works.

The swastika was found after a spate of bias incidents at Teachers College and the University. In addition to the noose incident, two Jewish TC professors received anti-Semitic materials last week.

“I feel it was an act in cowardice because it was done when no one was here, apparently,” Midlarsky said. “I’m very open about the fact that I’m Jewish, the fact that I study the Holocaust and have been for many years and apparently someone tried to make me a target.” …