Fallout from campus antisemitism continued at Harvard University this week as the school was forced to condemn a cartoon and a professor resigned from a pro-Palestinian group that shared the image.
The image included a hand adorned with a Star of David and a dollar sign clutching nooses tightened around the necks of Arab and black men, according to a statement from interim Harvard President Alan Garber in which he condemned the image as “flagrantly antisemitic” Tuesday evening.
The men in the image appeared to be boxer Muhammad Ali and former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
The cartoon was shared on social media by student groups Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and African American Resistance Organization, as well as reposted by faculty group Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine.
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