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GWU student fakes hate


A student at George Washington University has admitted drawing swastikas on her own door, university officials say:

After evaluating evidence from a hidden camera positioned in response to the swastika postings in Mitchell Hall, University Police have linked the student who filed the complaints to several of the incidents.

Following a final interview with investigators today, the student admitted responsibility for those incidents.

The student in question is an 18-year-old freshman. The GW Hatchet reports:
Using footage from a hidden video camera, the University Police Department linked freshman Sarah Marshak with the vandalism. She will now appear before Student Judicial Services and could face federal and District charges, a spokesperson announced Monday afternoon.

In an interview with The Hatchet Monday afternoon, Marshak, who had been a reporter for this newspaper, categorically denied drawing the swastikas on her residence hall door.

Marshak saw six swastikas on her residence hall door, where she lived alone.

GWU failed to take action against seven students who perpetrated an anti-Muslim hoax against Young America's Foundation last month. Marshak's hate hoax began Oct. 23, and FBI agents were called to assist in the investigation.


Self-inflicted fake hate crimes are an increasingly common phenomena, especially on college campuses. Why? Perhaps because students are told that "hate" is ubiquitous, and that being a victim of oppression is akin to sainthood.


It's the "American Idol" syndrome: Everybody wants their 15 minutes of fame, and faking a hate crime against yourself is a quick shortcut to the limelight.


-- Robert Stacy McCain, assistant national editor, The Washington Times


UPDATE 10:15 p.m.:


Linked at Hot Air, Jammie Wearing Fool, Gateway Pundit, Memeorandum and Instapundit, who observes: "If hate crimes did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them."


-- RSM


UPDATE 10:25 p.m.:


Ace of Spades:

If you can claim you were just trafficking in hateful symbols and statements to "raise awareness," you get off scot free. Even if your hoax winds up tearing up a university over the false allegations and costs tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in investigations.
-- RSM


UPDATE 10:35 p.m.:


A veritable blogstorm on this story. Michelle Malkin calls attention to the student's "fake but justified" defense:

In an interview with The Hatchet Monday evening, Marshak said she only drew the final three of six swastikas on her door in an attempt to highlight what she characterized as GW's inaction. ...

"I wasn't looking to create this, sort of, insanity," Marshak said in a phone interview. "I was't looking to become a media darling. I was just looking for acknowledgment from University that someone drew a swastika on the door."

-- RSM

Comments (20)

I woke up one time with a swastika tatooed on my a--. Do I get anything for that?

And it's been, what, 3 weeks since the tapes of the noose-on-the-door incident at Columbia J School were released to the police, and so far zip, zilch, nada.
Anyone know what the story is there? Google was no help.

This is an important piece and speaks volumes about the tyranny of "saintly" victimhood. In a world--no really, in a university culture which has annointed victims and condemned victimizers--who will most students respect more?

This is in keeping with the genre of the facts not fitting the narrative. Great story for the press eager to report the narrative, as it fits so well with preconceived beliefs. Unfortunately, the facts aren't true. Rathergate, Duke hoax, these repetitive faked racist incidents. It is not confined to college campuses, but they certainly seem to have more than their fair share. I wonder why that is?

This was a dumb stunt by a kid who should have known better. It was dumb because there is plenty of real anti-Jew hatred at GW that no one needs to fake it. She should have known better because any ethical teaching by her parents would have instructed her against using lies to strike at her enemies, especially when the truth would do a better job.

Her face book page has Stephen Colbert's autograph as the picture. Was tempted to send her a note.

Saddest thing is Anne Coulter wrote an article about how most hate crimes are fakes. She proved Anne right!

People steal from themselves as well to try to get sympathy. One big clue to police is when nothing of sentimental value is stolen.

I wonder why she is getting punished (as she should) but not that kid that put up the posters? What he did was even worse since he posed as another group trying to incite hatred against them.

There was a time when "students" who did things like this were automatically expelled. But this jerk is going to appear before something called "Student Judicial Services?" Ooooooo, now that sounds harsh. She should be immediately thrown out of school and given a big fine by local law enforcement officials (jail time would be silly in a case like this, but a large fine would probably hit her, and the parents paying for this education, a lot harder). Maybe that would discourage other people from doing stupid things like this.

The GWU incident was not an "anti-Muslim" hoax. It was an anti conservative hoax attempting to smear people with charges of racism.

We were forced to tip-toe around campus this whole time, and the Jewish students were playing this thing up like a pogrom! You can't event mention the Palestinians on my campus without being accused of anti-semitism. This is just ridiculous, I hope she's expelled.

I bet that noose thing at Columbia turned out to be a hoax too, that's why you haven't heard anything about it since Columbia stonewalled the cops for 2 days before turning over the tapes. I bet those tapes that got turned over to the cops after those 2 days had some "Nixonian" mysterious gaps on them. That "Professor" probably did it herself, since she just had a book about "microagressions against minorities" (read: trivial percieved insults).

"And it's been, what, 3 weeks since the tapes of the noose-on-the-door incident at Columbia J School were released to the police, and so far zip, zilch, nada.
Anyone know what the story is there? Google was no help." >>

Absolutely right Fred! Most people with an IQ above room temperature knew Madonna Constantine was a complete fraud. The problem is when you point this out, you're immediately branded a 'racist'.

The problem is the political correctness and the elevation of victemhood. We should not care if someone draws a swastika or hangs a noose. Just actively prosecuting assult and property damage would be warrented and sufficient.

Sarah Marshak's mother is the Librarian at a predominantly Jewish private school in Cononut Creek, Florida. She often used her 'perfect' daughter to draw a comparison as to how children should behave at school and how a good parent should nurture their children. Just goes to show that her daughter has proven that she isn't better than any other student, and obviously needs to see a therapist. I hope both she and her daughter are totally ashamed. They kicked students out of the high school Sarah attended for far less serious crimes than this.

Hoax crimes committed by Jews to frame others is outrageously common. The GWU female student is unfortunately the norm for her culture. False flags have been a Jewish specialty for a few thousand years, but people are made to be afraid of talking about it because Jews are such reputation assassins. The only description that can capture them is psychopathic. One only needs to look at the genocide of the Palestinians and hear Jews call it "security" to see this.

A people who have in their own holy book--the Talmud--that Jesus is boiling in excrement just has to be about as evil as evil can be. It is people like the GWU Jewish student who makes me wonder if the holocaust is even true in the slightest....

Really good and really interesting post. I expect (and other readers maybe :)) new useful posts from you!
Good luck and successes in blogging!

In reply to Joy's post from Nov 6:

I went to school with Sarah Marshak since we were in seventh grade. I've known her mother for six years, and that poor woman is going through hell right now. How would you feel if you were a single parent working for really low pay, and when your only child graduates, within three months your daughter is a stranger who just ruined her life. Her mother is devastated. Any mother would be.

It's incredibly insensitive of that person who posted that. They heard a lot of misinformation, considering our school is run entirely by Christian administrators that say God Bless every two seconds, and Bonnie is non-practicing. Sarah got into Judaism when she went to George Washington University this year. Her mother and the school had no influence on her religious choices or her destructive actions.

I just learned about the incident at GWU. I was acquainted with Sarah and her mother Bonnie from the time Sarah was in Kindergarten,until 2004, through our children being in school together. It appeared that Bonnie tried to be a good parent and teach Sarah good values. I hope that Sarah gets the help she needs from a mental health professional. I feel very badly for Bonnie. She must be devastated.

In response to Joy:

I attended the high school where Sarah Marshak went. By no means am I defending what she did, but you should be ashamed of the 'evidence' you tried to use against her. If you would like to hold it against me, I am Jewish. I'm sure that will immediately cause you to disregard what I have to say based on the bigotry you put in your post. The fact that my school has a higher percentage of Jewish students than others is A) attributable to the demographics of South Florida and B) entirely irrelevant. I can tell you (from personal experience) that we do not pray in school, they do not teach 'Jewish' principles and there is in no way any class or extra-curricular activity that relates in any way to any form of religion. I had teachers at that school who were Muslim, Christian, and Jewish, and the closest form of "religious studies" I encountered was in a 9th grade World History class. If you are implying that the environment Sarah went to school in had anything to do with her subsequent actions, you are nothing short of ignorant. And lastly, your final comment, stating that students have been expelled for worse, is for each person to decide. Let me inform you though that within the past couple years, students have been expelled for reasons including: accidentally killing a teachers dog while trying to harass the above-mentioned teacher, stealing electronic devices ranging from $100-$400, bringing a wide variety of drugs onto the campus, and selling drugs/alcohol to other students. Again, I do not think what Sarah did was right by any means, and I myself was and still am offended by it, but in attempting to attack her, you lashed out at an unrelated group of people and provided an ACTUAL example of all this bigotry that everyone is so unsettled by. My heritage aside, there is nothing in your comment, Joy, that warrants it be labeled as anything but a hateful and discriminatory statement. Now all thats left to do is to wait for the staunch conservative to reply to my own comment claiming that I'm nothing more than a liberal jew pointing the bigotry finger.

I knew stories like this would bring antisemites out of the wordwork. She didn't do it becuase she did it, she did it because she's an attentionwh***.

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