On August the 4th, an organisation at Harvard University, called the ‘Palestine Solidarity Committee’ posted on Instagram, engaging in rhetoric that is deeply anti-Semitic. The post called the right of Jews to self-determination (Zionism), “a racist, sectarian, exclusionary, Jewish-supremacist political ideology”, equating it to white-supremacism and settler-colonialism.
Furthermore, on April the 22nd earlier this year, the same organisation posted a political propaganda cartoon by Carlos Latuff, an open anti-Semite who has participated in the National Holocaust Cartoon Contest. This contest, which occurs every year on Holocaust remembrance day, is run by a group which frequently compares Jews to Nazis, and participates in active Holocaust denial.
The cartoon itself is painfully reminiscent of Nazi cartoons during the Holocaust, by portraying the world as controlled by a Jewish man in a kippah, with the Earth itself depicted with an elongated nose. The exact same cartoon has been shared by David Duke, the leader of the KKK.
The official Harvard University Admissions account has liked and validated posts from this Palestine Solidarity Committee’s account, proving their support of an openly anti-Semitic group. This is by far not the only instance of antisemitism at Harvard, with the Instagram account @jewishoncampus claiming to have received many anonymous submissions from Jewish students at Harvard who have been threatened, attacked or made to feel unsafe. Harvard is yet to comment.
Written by Noah Mitchell
Artwork by Isabel Johns
