Did the New York Post publish an article about a student who was targeted by an antisemitic attack, vandalizing her dorm door? No, that's not true: The fabricated screenshot used preexisting photos to craft a fake screenshot of a New York Post article that was never published. The image of the spraypainted door was taken from a 2021 incident at a synagogue in Tucson, Arizona.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) by the @RabbiJeffx account on X on Sept. 24, 2026. It read:
This Jewish student was CAUGHT staging a fake ANTISEMITIC attack on her own dorm door.
@grok Yes/No
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @RabbiJeffx on X.)
The fake New York Post headline reads:
ANTISEMITIC HORROR: Swastikas target Jewish student dorm door, driving her off campus
The @RabbiJeffx account (archived here) has a parody & satire disclaimer (pictured below). Additionally the account bio reads:
Fictional character. Not a real rabbi. Everything is fictional.
(Image source: @RabbiJeffx account bio on X.)
The image in the post has three elements: a New York Post headline, a spraypainted door, and a picture of a woman. The post caption adds a further claim: that this was a staged incident, enlisting the help of the xAI chatbot Grok to confirm or deny it. Grok offered additional information (archived here) about a real but unrelated incident before stating that the New York Post screenshot is fabricated.
A search on the website of the New York Post for keywords from the headline did not show the alleged article (archived here). Additionally, a Google advanced search of the New York Post headline "Swastikas target Jewish student dorm door, driving her off campus" site:nypost.com " produced no results (archived here). This is not a headline ever published by the New York Post.
Lead Stories searched for the image of the spraypainted door with Google Lens (archived here). Several images matched the vandalism pictured, but one June 9, 2021, article from the Cleveland Jewish News (archived here) shows the door with the same reflection of the photographer in the window. The article is titled, "Swastika, anti-Jewish graffiti defaces Chabad House in Tucson". The photo shows an incident at an Arizona synagogue several years ago, not a dorm room.
A search with Google Lens for the image of the woman (archived here) shows that the image has circulated for several years as a meme with big nose hashtags. One Oct. 19, 2021, post (archived here) on Instagram had the hashtags:
#bignose #longnose #pinocchio #giant #biggest #anonymous
