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The cartoon in question was posted by two campus groups, the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and the African American Resistance Organization. The image depicts a hand featuring a star of David and a dollar sign holding two nooses, one tied around the neck of an Arab man and the other tied around the neck of a black man. The groups reportedly took the image from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an activist organization from the 1960s.
Copied from a newsletter published by students in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, the image features a Black man and an Arab man with nooses around their necks, held by a hand imprinted with the Star of David that has a dollar sign in the middle of the star.Harvard University issued a campuswide message Tuesday evening from its interim president condemning an antisemitic cartoon that was circulated—and then disavowed—by two student groups and a faculty organization.
“Perpetuating vile and hateful antisemitic tropes, or otherwise engaging in inflammatory rhetoric or sharing images that demean people on the basis of their identity, is precisely the opposite of what this moment demands of us,” wrote Alan Garber, the university’s interim president. “The University will review the situation to better understand who was responsible for the posting and to determine what further...
Walter Johnson, a Harvard professor of African American studies and history, resigned as the adviser to Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine and the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee following widespread backlash to the image, according to the Crimson. Harvard Interim President Alan Garber and the university both put out...
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