‘Despicable’. Harvard student and faculty groups denounced over antisemitic cartoon

Pro-Palestinian groups at Harvard University, including one comprising faculty and staff, reignited the controversy over campus antisemitism over the long weekend when they posted an antisemitic cartoon on their social media accounts.

The cartoon, which dates to the 1960s and was condemned when it was first published, showed a hand inscribed with a Star of David and a dollar sign holding ropes around the necks of a Black man and an Arab man.

Interim Harvard president Alan Garber condemned it as “flagrantly antisemitic” in a message to the Harvard community Tuesday evening.