How long do you think a display criticizing jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women would last at Harvard? Five minutes? Ten?
“Harvard Hires 24/7 Security To Protect Anti-Israel ‘Apartheid Wall’ Featuring Quote From Famous Terrorist,” by Kassy Akiva, Daily Wire, April 5, 2024:
Harvard University is employing around-the-clock security to protect an anti-Israel “apartheid wall” created by students that features a quote from the leader of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization.
The wall includes various anti-Israel art and a quote from Ghassan Kanafani, the former spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a communist Palestinian terrorist organization known for hijacking aircraft and mass murder. Kanafani was assassinated in Beirut in June of 1972 by the Mossad after being linked to the massacre of 26 people—including American tourists—at Ben Gurion airport two months earlier, according to Jewish News Syndicate.
“The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era,” the Kanafani quote reads.
The guards have been giving the display 24-hour coverage while sporting jackets with a Securitas logo, a security firm that has a relationship with Harvard. A Harvard alum who lives near campus told The Daily Wire that one of the security guards started yelling when asked who he was employed by.
“He thought that we were filming and started yelling at us that we are escalating the situation and that he is going to call his supervisor,” the alum who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of retribution said. “He started walking to the car and then turned around and started yelling that we are going to threaten him in his family, because this is what ‘you people do,’ threaten people and steal their lands.”
When the alum notified the Harvard Police, they confirmed he worked for a security firm contracted by the school and said that the guard would not return to protect the wall.
“To pay to have a guard 24/7 protecting a wall that displays statements issued by U.S.-designated terror organizations, and propagates conspiracies against Israel and the Jewish people, and simultaneously not do so to protect posters of hostages whose photos have been hatefully and regularly defaced and vandalized, is bizarre and poor judgment in the extreme,” Harvard Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi told The Daily Wire….
Ray Jarman says
I guess that the students paying $90,000.00+ for the privilege of a degree in how to be exploited. For the school to misappropriate funding to maintain a fraudulent message or espouse a false message should be illegal. For a school that was founded to espouse and enlighten young people of John Adam’s time about religion, this whole incident is beyond the pale.
Ian says
Well said. Students are paying for a degree – but not an education.
Claudio says
I don’t understand why the pro_israel students in place of complain don’t make the same but supporting Israel.
Eye for eye response …
Wooster says
Some days ago I watched Fareed Zakaria’s vid, in which he meticulously criticized Harvard and the other woke ‘top’ universities to smithereens. Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXob1BvrseI
MUST WATCH indeed: after having heard him, you will understand that the wokies don’t really belong there. They just don’t qualify.: not up to snuff. That is, according to the old standards, of course. That’s why they behave like a bunch of babbling crybabies. And if you try to argue with them, they will silence you by bully-shouting you down, thus hiding the fact that they don’t have any counter arguments.
Who was it that said: You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time’? Aw shucks, it was good ole’ Abe Lincoln. I thought it was Truman. ‘Anyways’, it remains a truism.
Folks: don’t send your kids to Harvard! Too expensive and they learn b.s..
Wooster says
These universities have made themselves superfluous. A waste of time and money.