Cornell Student Newspaper Slammed for Publishing Palestinian Artwork With Nazi Symbolism
“To me, it reflects the normalization of Holocaust inversion, both on the internet and now on Cornell’s campus”
Professor Jacobson is quoted in the story.
The New York Post reports:
Cornell student paper under fire for publishing ‘highly offensive’ Palestinian artwork with Nazi symbolism
Cornell’s student newspaper sparked furious backlash after it published a professor’s incendiary artwork depicting a bloodied Star of David and Nazi “SS” symbol scrawled on the back of a Palestinian person.
The Cornell Daily Sun later took down the disturbing graphic after it was widely blasted as antisemitic, but the ordeal is raising concerns about a deeper cultural problem on campus.
“To me, it reflects the normalization of Holocaust inversion, both on the internet and now on Cornell’s campus,” William Jacobson, a law professor who founded Legal Insurrection, a conservative publication, told The Post.
“This [SS lighting bolt] graphic is specifically inside a bloody Jewish star. No reflection of it being even related to Israel. And it clearly is pursuing the idea that Jews are the new Nazis. And so I think it’s obviously highly offensive.”
The “SS” insignia was used by the Schutzstaffeln, Adolf Hitler’s secret police, an evil organization that carried out atrocities against the Jews during the Holocaust.
Jacobson’s colleague, Professor Karim-Aly Kassam, who teaches courses on natural resources and indigenous studies, had published a piece titled, “Thousand & One Eyes for An Eye,” effectively accusing Israel of pursuing revenge in the Gaza Strip.
The op-ed dropped days after the second anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza.
In the piece, he argued that the Israeli government and its allies explained away the carnage in Gaza by characterizing the Palestinians as “animals” who are unworthy of “human rights and protection under international law.”
The official Cornell student newspaper just ran a graphic showing a blood-drenched Star of David with a Nazi SS symbol scrawled inside of it.
Absolutely disgusting. pic.twitter.com/4ZE5Qn7XMI
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“a piece titled, “Thousand & One Eyes for An Eye,”
Is that anything like “2,000 convicted prisoners for 20 hostages?”
They haven’t, but they should have.
Personally, I think that their actions show that they are unsalvageable animals and that they should be treated accordingly.