The Harvard Crimson Waves Away Antisemitic Cartoon Shared by Members of the Faculty

The Harvard Crimson Waves Away Antisemitic Cartoon Shared by Members of the Faculty

The people who shared this cartoon are the Crimson’s fellow travelers on the left, so this is being swept away.

The College Fix reports:

Harvard Crimson editors: Yes, cartoon was antisemitic, but c’mon it’s ‘just’ an Instagram post

So there I was rewatching “The Social Network” again, and — again — marveling at how brilliant college students Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin were (are).

They went to Harvard, after all.

But, of course, the events in the film took place over 20 years ago, and you know how quickly things can change.

Harvard’s student paper, The Crimson, over the years has become almost laughably biased … and in some cases nonsensical.

This isn’t much of a surprise; what is a surprise (perhaps a better word is “disappointing”) is that two of its big guns, so to speak, are hard science majors like Zuckerberg and Saverin.

I’d have thought all the editors would be concentrating in the humanities, especially stuff like sociology and the various “studies,” given the paper’s latest editorial.

While calling a cartoon (pictured) recently posted by a pair of “pro-Palestine” groups “unequivocally and reprehensibly antisemitic” (it features a hand “branded with the Star of David with a dollar sign at the center […] holding a noose that circles the necks of two men who appear to be Muhammad Ali and former Egyptian President Gamal Nasser”), the editors nonetheless say the post “was just that: an Instagram post.”

This one post does not tell us what the dozens of other members of these two organizations believe. It does not tell us what the pro-Palestine coalition at Harvard believes. It most assuredly does not tell us what the national pro-Palestine movement believes, nor does it invalidate their essential aims.

All this Instagram post tells us is that Monday afternoon a handful of activists failed to exercise even the most basic sensitivity.

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