Another day at Harvard, another antisemitic incident.
Harvard University pro-Palestine groups recently posted a “deeply offensive antisemitic” cartoon, the latest in a series of such controversies.
Over the weekend, according to the Herald, the groups shared the old antisemitic cartoon on social media — depicting Jews as puppet masters, lynching an Arab person and a Black person. The Jewish hand in the cartoon had a Star of David, and a dollar sign was placed inside the star.
It’s the typical appalling dreck that titillates small minds and the sort of crass, crude buffoonery that Jew-haters have reveled in for centuries. Society is devolving, and Harvard is a hotspot.
The student groups that initially posted the cartoon were the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and the African and African American Resistance Organization.
The university called the post “despicable” and said it’s investigating the matter.
This is Harvard’s chance to put its disciplinary actions where its mouth is. Indignant tsks and cries of “despicable” are not enough. Nor is the public finger-wagging against hate with vows that this must never happen again. The university has said all this before. And here we are.
The question for Harvard is: are you really serious about fighting antisemitism on your campus? Prove it.
