Harvard Contract Worker Ordered to Leave Campus After Being Caught Tearing Down Posters of Missing Israelis
“The contract worker was directed to leave campus, and his employer has been notified that the individual may not be assigned to return to campus to perform work in the future”
In addition to tearing down the posters, the worker became very aggressive when confronted about his actions. It’s good that Harvard did the right thing and got rid of this person.
The Harvard Crimson reported:
Harvard Contract Worker Ordered to Leave Campus After Videotaped Tearing Down Israeli Hostage Posters
A man who was contracted by Harvard to do groundskeeping work was ordered to leave campus and was banned from returning to work for the University after he was videotaped tearing down posters of Israeli hostages from a posting area in Harvard Yard.
The video, posted to X by Jewish student organization Harvard Chabad Wednesday morning, revealed a confrontation between a man who was wearing a crimson “Harvard Campus Services” sweater and an unknown individual who filmed the encounter.
The person filming the video repeatedly asks the worker why he is removing the posters of Israeli hostages from a bulletin board outside of Thayer Hall. The video of the encounter, which lasted less than five minutes, showed the worker getting increasingly upset by the repeated questions about why he was tearing down the posters.
“It is my fucking job,” the worker told the person filming the encounter.
As the exchange grew more heated, one of the worker’s colleagues stepped between the worker seen tearing down the posters and the person filming the video.
By the end of the video, after repeated back-and-forths, the worker —who his colleague referred to as “Jackson” in the video — began yelling in the face of the person filming the video, telling him to “get the fuck out of here” and that “nobody wants to talk with you.”
Harvard spokesperson Jason A. Newton wrote in a statement Wednesday afternoon that the University “strongly condemns” the worker’s actions.
“The contract worker was directed to leave campus, and his employer has been notified that the individual may not be assigned to return to campus to perform work in the future,” Newton added.
Here’s the video. Very strong language warning:
Harvard employees caught in the act of tearing hostage posters.
On the request of our Israeli students to raise awareness of the suffering of their loved ones being held hostage in Gaza, Harvard Chabad has been sponsoring posters of their loved ones. Against university policy… pic.twitter.com/wMuNs4F2LT— Harvard Chabad (@HarvardChabad) March 20, 2024
Featured image via Twitter video.
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If its not in his job description, its reason enough to terminate his contract job.
But arguably the persons who install posters on property they don’t own should also be held accountable.
Strictly speaking, only the property owner has rights to install or remove posters on the owner’s property.
You obviously did not read the article – “…posting area in Harvard Yard.”
I agree if that was what is going on here but it is not. The posters were put up in the “posting area” used for such a purpose. Unless the posters violated some type of rule they had as much right to be up there as an invitation to a party.
Send hjm back to Africa. He does not understand American freedoms.
Good on the man in the video for confronting this hate. These Harvard haters have gotten their way for so long, they don’t see anything wrong at all with what they are doing. The policy only applies to their preferred viewpoints and beliefs. This toxic culture reinforces their hateful actions and it rewards it. So it’s refreshing to see someone confront them so assertively and not back down.
“But arguably the persons who install posters on property they don’t own should also be held accountable.”
So your contention is that it is against Harvard policy for student organizations to post bulletins on the bulletin board that was presumably erected by the university for the purpose of…oh…I don’t know…posting bulletins maybe?
Doesn’t seem like logic is really your strong suit.
From the photo it looks outdoors. I don’t know the current policy now but was my understanding you may only post notices on the bulletin boards located in the basement hallway of the Harvard Yard Mail Center and in Loker Commons.
But like I originally said, if its beyond the scope of his job description to remove posters then he could get terminated for that. Not to mention his abusive language on the job.
That guy in the red who was taking down the posters is psychotic. He shouldn’t be on campus for the safety of people on campus.
He has as much right to be there as that grifter Gay. At least he was qualified for the job he was doing. She was doing far more damage to Harvard and Harvard Jews than that guy ever could.