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NYU student accused of raising swastika flag at campus site dedicated to Jewish donor shows face in Manhattan court
NY Post ^ | 08/04/2026 | Steve Hirsch

Posted on 08/05/2026 6:54:12 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

Here is the first look at the preppy NYU student from Connecticut accused of raising a flag bearing two swastikas next to a Star of David at a campus building dedicated to a Jewish donor.

Alexander Stepnowsky, 23, wore a baby-blue button-down shirt and tan khakis to his routine preliminary Manhattan court hearing Tuesday in his hate-crimes case stemming from the disturbing May incident.

The pupil hoisted the troubling banner — which also included a New York University logo and was designed to look like one of the prestigious school’s purple-and-white flags — during this year’s graduation festivities, prosecutors claim.

Stepnowsky has pleaded not guilty to charges of burglary and criminal trespass as a hate crime, as well as first-degree aggravated harassment…

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TOPICS: Education; Religion
KEYWORDS: alexanderstepnowsky; democratterrorism; democrwtterrorist; israel; jews; nazi; nyu; whatshisfrnick
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To: Bigg Red

It dawned on me one day, and I have since validated my thesis but questioning young men. None of them, not one, has ever taken a serious ass kicking. I mean a beat down that you have to go the hospital afterwards. I have taken some and administered some. It can be an educational experience. It serves to focus the mind and expand your horizons. If nothing else it teaches a hard lesson about pausing a moment to consider possible consequences.


21 posted on 08/05/2026 8:07:18 AM PDT by atomic_dog
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To: Macoozie

“Wee weed-up!” Thanks for reviving that classic. I’ll make a point of using it in conversation in the next couple weeks


22 posted on 08/05/2026 8:21:00 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Swastika flag huh? Must be a Muzzie Nazi tranny wannabe.


23 posted on 08/05/2026 8:29:42 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Gen Zers are the same mental midgets who ate Tide pods as toddlers.)
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To: Liz

Too many Tide pods when he was a toddler.


24 posted on 08/05/2026 8:30:25 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Gen Zers are the same mental midgets who ate Tide pods as toddlers.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

If he can fly the rainbow flag, or the flag of a foreign country, he can fly a flag with a swastika. It’s an inalienable right to free speech and the government, under the first amendment, can’t charge him with a crime.


25 posted on 08/05/2026 8:46:41 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: FlingWingFlyer

And not enough parental discipline.


26 posted on 08/05/2026 9:11:16 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Bigg Red
I despise little punks like this, and what he did is despicable, but I dislike the whole “hate crime” concept.

Me too. Hate Crime = Thought Police

27 posted on 08/05/2026 9:22:03 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven)
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To: mac_truck

You’re delusional. When Israel controlled Gaza for decades, Gaza thrived and so did its Christian population. Since the knuckle dragging 7th Century savages took over in 2005, it been a terror state that persecutes Christians.


28 posted on 08/05/2026 9:27:21 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification;)
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To: atomic_dog

Many of such young men, I suspect, never had a father who grabbed him and told him how to behave.

Even if a child is being raised with both parents together, it seems like the fathers are not stepping up here. A few months ago, I witnessed this scene that made me want to scream.

The DH and I were attending a festival at a state park. Shuttle buses, which were school buses, were provided from the parking lot. A man and a woman got on with a little boy who was not even 3. Mom sat on one side of the bus. The child sat in a seat across the aisle, right on the aisle side of the seat. I don’t know if the child spoke during this brief event, as I could hear only the man. I heard the man say the following:

“Scoot over, buddy, so I can sit down...Oh, do you want me to sit on the other side?”

He then proceeded to climb over the kid to seat himself next to the window.

I wonder who runs that household.....


29 posted on 08/05/2026 9:51:07 AM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

lol


30 posted on 08/05/2026 11:58:35 AM PDT by Liz (“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies the work of His hands." (Psalm 19:1))
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To: Jan_Sobieski

That’s a punch-able face for sure, a Khaki pants wearing Dbag who mommy and daddy never said no to.


31 posted on 08/05/2026 1:42:36 PM PDT by BFW
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To: Eccl 10:2

Victims in their own minds.


32 posted on 08/05/2026 2:49:14 PM PDT by wastedyears (Never forgive for the USS Liberty.)
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