The evidence continues to accumulate.
Harvard Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine is walking back an Instagram story that depicted Black men being controlled by a hand with the Star of David on it.Apparently Elise Stefanik's dressing down of now demoted Harvard president Claudine Gay has encouraged her successors to ... use their speech codes.
The post was originally made by the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee and the African and African American Resistance Organization, but was also shared by Harvard Faculty & Staff for Justice.
The groups immediately faced criticism for the post, prompting the university to open an investigation.The now withdrawn visual invoked the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Black Panther Party; in a follow-up statement the Justice in Palestine soviet issued a new statement, invoking ... Stokely Carmichael. People with long memories took notice.
”The University is aware of social media posts today containing deeply offensive antisemitic tropes and messages from organizations whose membership includes Harvard affiliates,” a statement from Harvard reads. “Such despicable messages have no place in the Harvard community. We condemn these posts in the strongest possible terms.”
”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 university said. “Harvard rejects antisemitism in all of its forms.”
Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine circulated an amended graphic with an image of Stokely Carmichael, a Black Panther Party leader who praised Adolf Hitler in 1970 as the "greatest white man" and later complained, in a 1990 address, that "zionist pigs have been harassing us everywhere."Fitting, isn't it, that a brain-dead parody of Lyndon Johnson in the White House merits a brain-dead parody of The Movement in Cambridge?

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