The backlash from the posting of a clearly anti-Semitic cartoon by several pro-Palestinian groups at Harvard is still being felt. As I described yesterday, the school immediately denounced the cartoon which showed a hand with a Jewish star and a dollar sign holding a rope around the necks of one black and one Arab man. As of Monday the Palestine Solidarity Committee, the African and African American Resistance Organization and the Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine had all pulled the image down and apologized. But it seems to be a case of too little, too late.
Last night the school’s interim president, who took over after the resignation of Claudine Gay, condemned the image and added that the Harvard corporation also joined him in condemning it.
Interim President Alan M. Garber ’76 fiercely condemned an antisemitic image posted by two pro-Palestine student groups…
