Harvard University pro-Palestine teams are beneath fireplace after they just lately posted a “deeply offensive antisemitic” cartoon, the most recent controversy on the divided campus because the begin of the Israel-Hamas warfare.
The teams over the weekend shared the outdated antisemitic cartoon on social media — depicting Jews as puppet masters, lynching an Arab individual and a Black individual. The Jewish hand within the cartoon had a Star of David, and a greenback signal was positioned contained in the star.
The scholar teams that originally posted the cartoon had been the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and the African and African American Resistance Organization. The Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee was the group again in October that blamed Israel for the Hamas terrorist assaults.
After the coed organizations posted the cartoon, the Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine shared the put up in an Instagram story.
The college, which has been criticized for its response to rising antisemitism on campus, referred to as the put up “despicable” and stated it’s investigating the matter.
“The university is aware of social media posts today containing deeply offensive antisemitic tropes and messages from organizations whose membership includes Harvard affiliates,” a Harvard spokesperson stated in an announcement. “Such despicable messages haven’t any place within the Harvard neighborhood. We condemn these posts within the strongest potential phrases.
“This matter is being reviewed by the University and is being referred to the Harvard College Administrative Board, which is responsible for the application and enforcement of undergraduate academic regulations and social conduct,” the spokesperson added. “Harvard rejects antisemitism in all of its forms. We are determined to combat any such hate and bias in our community.”
The antisemitic illustration within the put up was from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, from again within the Nineteen Sixties. The put up was linking the Black liberation actions and the Palestinian liberation actions.
“The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee likened Zionism to an imperial project… while the Black Panther Party aligned itself with the Palestinian resistance, framing both struggles as a unified front against racism, Zionism, and imperialism,” the put up learn.
Harvard *school* simply posted an explicitly antisemitic poster depicting a Jewish hand controlling the black thoughts. With Professors like these, it’s straightforward to see why we Jewish college students don’t really feel protected in school pic.twitter.com/AiqADJSIFw
— Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosOkay) February 19, 2024
Jewish teams condemned the organizations that posted and shared the cartoon.
“Members of Harvard *faculty* posting old-school classic antisemitic posters. Note the $ sign placed in the star of david depicted below,” Harvard Chabad wrote. “This should be called what it is. Reprehensible. Bigoted. Hateful.”
Harvard Hillel referred to as the put up “deeply disturbing.”
“This post follows an alarming increase in antisemitism on our campus in recent weeks, including the defacing of hostage posters with blood-red paint, chants of ‘From water to water, Palestine is Arab’ at a pro-Palestinian rally, and a staff member claiming that Israel, not Al-Qaeda, was behind the 9/11 attacks,” Hillel added.
“We refuse to allow any group to define our identities or dictate our values,” Hillel wrote. “We will continue to call upon our administration to take action against virulent antisemitism at Harvard and strengthen our Jewish community.”
The scholar teams later eliminated the antisemitic cartoon from the put up. The teams stated the illustration was “not reflective of our values.”
“Our mutual goals for liberation will always include the Jewish community — and we regret inadvertently including an image that played upon antisemitic tropes,” the teams wrote.
The Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine additionally took down the put up.
“It has come to our attention that a post featuring antiquated cartoons which used offensive antisemitic tropes was linked to our account,” the group wrote. “We removed the content as soon as it came to our attention. We apologize for the hurt that these images have caused and do not condone them in any way.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”