Harvard facing fresh antisemitism scandal as faculty group shares cartoon full of ‘offensive tropes’

February 24, 2024 Pharaoh

Harvard has been caught in yet another antisemitism scandal after a faculty group posted an old cartoon filled with “offensive tropes” depicting a Jewish person hanging a black and an Arab man.

The Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine reposted the cartoon Monday after it was shared by two student groups, the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Africa and African American Resistance Organization, according to the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson.

It shows a hand with a dollar sign inside a Star of David holding nooses around what appear to be Muhammad Ali and former Egyptian President Gamal Nasser — with “third world” printed around a black arm swinging a machete with the words “liberation movement” on it.