FLORIDA – In a show of solidarity and support for their Jewish brothers after recent threats, the Muslim Student Associations of Florida State and Florida A&M universities delivered bouquets of flowers to campus Jewish organizations and local synagogues.

“Keeping up with the news lately has shown a plethora of very sad stories and hateful crimes against many minority groups,” FSU Muslim Student Association President Moneba Anees wrote in an email to the Tallahassee-Democrat newspaper, JTA News Agency reported on Wednesday, March 1.

“Although we could not think of a way to help our Jewish friends and peers directly, we decided that we could show them that people are taking note of what is happening and that they have our support, love and prayers.”

The flowers and the accompanying notes were meant to express love and solidarity at a time when both the Muslim and Jewish communities are under attack.

They were delivered to the Chabad and Hillel organizations at Florida State and to Shomrei Torah and Temple Israel synagogues in Tallahassee.

The note said: “We are writing this message to extend a hand of friendship. In times of great division, it is important that we stand together in unity so we hope that these flowers can be seen as a symbol of our solidarity.”

The gesture follows a spate of anti-Semitic incidents that have rattled the American Jewish community in recent days.

Jewish community centers in 10 states were shaken by a wave of bomb threats on Monday.

That same day, reports emerged that more than 100 headstones at a historic Jewish cemetery outside St. Louis had been desecrated by vandals.

Late last week, Muslim activists Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi started a crowdfunding campaign to support the repair of a St. Louis Jewish cemetery which raised more than $100,000.