More than 30 Harvard University student organizations are holding Israel "entirely responsible" for Hamas' mass slaughter --- sparking outraged condemnation and calls by a congresswoman for the Ivy League school to denounce the "abhorrent and heinous" support of "evil and terrorism."
In a letter titled "Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine," 31 student organizations --- including the Ivy League's affiliate of Amnesty International --- condemned Israel, even as its residents are kidnapped and more than 700 have been killed by the terrorist organization.
The groups claim Hamas' attack "did not happen in a vacuum," and the Israeli government has forced Palestinians to live in an "open-air prison for over two decades," according to the letter obtained by The Post
"We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence," the letter reads.
"The apartheid regime is the only one to blame," the groups claim.
“Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years,” they continue.
“From systematized land seizures to routine airstrikes, arbitrary detentions, to military checkpoints, and enforced family separations to targeted killings, Palestinians have been forced to live in a state of death, both slow and sudden.”
“Today, the Palestinian ordeal enters into uncharted territory,” the groups wrote. “The coming days will require a firm stand against retaliation.
“We call on the Harvard community to take action to stop the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians.”
The Post has reached out to Harvard University for comment.
The letter was signed by groups including the African American Resistance Organization, Amnesty International, the Harvard Islamic Society and Harvard Jews for Liberation.
It sparked almost immediate condemnation, including from Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who graduated from Harvard in 2006.
“It is abhorrent and heinous that Harvard student groups are blaming Israel for Hamas' barbaric terrorist attacks that have killed over 700 Israelis,” tweeted the New York rep, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee.
"Any voice that excuses the slaughter of innocent women and children has chosen the side of evil and terrorism.
"I am calling on the leadership of @Harvard to immediately publicly condemn these vile anti-Semitic statements."
Princeton professor Robert George also tweeted, "31 --- yes, 31 --- Harvard organizations have declared that the murders, r*pes, kidnappings, and other atrocities committed by Hamas against innocent people are in no way the fault of Hamas, but are rather entirely the fault of ... Israel.
"Something is deeply, deeply wrong in academia."
Political scientist Ian Bremmer, meanwhile, said he "can't imagine who would want to identify with such a group.
"Harvard parents---talk to your educated kids about this," he tweeted.
Aviva Klompas, a former speechwriter for the Israeli government, also took aim at the organizations for their support of the terrorist group.
"Israelis --- young and old --- were slaughtered in their homes. Entire families were butchered in cold blood," she wrote of the violence in Israel.
"In one home, a terrorist shot the parents dead, took a child's cellphone and livestreamed the horrors on the child's Facebook account. Elsewhere, dozens of young people were massacred at a music festival.
"Grandmothers were snatched from their homes and taken hostage. They took mothers carrying babies," she continued.
“Hamas is currently holding over 100 hostages, most of whom are civilians. Some are babies and children.
“Hamas acted with a savagery that can only be described as evil,” Klompas wrote. “But these students are so steeped in hate for Israel, that they are cheering on terrorists and denouncing the victims.”
Harvard's Palestine Solidarity Committee has previously come under fire for hosting anti-Israel events like a “Boycott Israel Trek,” and have claimed responsibility for getting the school newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, to support the controversial Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement.
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Who would have thought tankies are violently r-slurred?
Everyone had plenty of warnings about the type of 'culture' these organizations were breeding. Can't act shocked now
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Users here would be against the warsaw ghetto uprising if they were alive in the 40s and twitter existed.
!commies
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I know you're trolling but unironically take a helicopter trip all the same.
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The comment is clearly referring to Palestinian resistance as a whole b/c that's what the Harvard students in the OP believe and that's pretty obvious, but I guess you have urges to show yourself to be the dumbest neocon on this site. Boy, the competition is stiff and you still pull it off. Literally subhuman.
Gaza is an open air concentration camp. I support Israel, but I won't pretend Israel is moral in anything regarding Palestine. They've been waiting for an excuse to genocide the remaining Palestinians without earning the world's ire for half a century. Now they might've gotten it. That is all.
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By the time of WG uprising 80% of Warsaw Ghetto's population was already killed in actual death camps.
Meanwhile 70 years of Israel-Arab conflict saw less total deaths than that, and Palestinian population is booming.
To call the two remotely comparable is simply r-slurred.
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PaliBIPOC apologia !jidf
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Edit: !jidf I had an idea!
You decide his fate. That's right, right now you're the janny
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The two yes votes are your two antisemite friends, I don't want to tag jidf for the nth time today, but that is hilarious.
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I Dont understand whats going on
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Oh look another authoritarian trying to abuse his powers when faced with the slightest opposition.
I'm sure my grandfather has in drawer somewhere, but we are liberal jews and since during socialism the practice has completely died out due to antisemitism at the time, I never saw of any of my jewish friends or relatives wear one even occasionally. Here anyone who wears it is mostly orthodox jews, usually visiting from Israel. It's like asking christians if they have a cross on the wall at home, I know none of my christian friends do, they would probably have to go back to their grandparents too. Last time I wore one was 10 years ago to a distant relatives wedding in Israel.
All your caricatures of jews really leads me to believe that you either have never even talked to a jew and all your prepositions come from orthodox or mildly religious israelis, despite saying you don't live there.
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Stfu palestoid apologist
Trans lives matter, palestoid ones done. Save a trans life, kill a palestoid!
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hes jewish we dont do that to our bros
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@Transgender_spez
Thank you for the report, I almost missed our last resident zigger to make a pro-palestine statement.
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yeah gaza really sucks. maybe hamas should focus more on governing than starting hopeless wars against israel.
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They want to be they're own country but freely move inside of Israel? I dont have freedom of movement to walk to Canada.
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You actually do because Canadicucks don't protect their border very well.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/world/canada/canada-migrants-immigration.html
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Imagine if all this could be solved by voting in a different government
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Funny seeing the far leftoid having the same standards of evidence as /pol/.
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Hi lolbert. Here's an ABC article on gaza. https://abcnews.go.com/International/heck-earth-israel-unrest-spotlights-dire-conditions-gaza/story?id=103829699#:
Here's a 2021 one from the bbc:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-20415675
It's pretty common knowledge that Palestinians in Gaza are de facto not allowed to have an economy. Their movement is completely controlled by Israel. They're in a state of perpetual malnutrition relying on UN aid to prevent mass starvation. They have been forced to live in sardine can conditions in literally mud brick homes.
Once again this pic:
Has been confirmed true. Lmao
@BushWasRight
!commies
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Its pretty obvious what happens if you let them out of the open air prison. Hamas has the support of the majority of palestinians, they'll be satisfied with nothing less than the death of every Jew. Supporting Palestine is anti-semmitic.
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Oh no, alphetasauce can't let the caged dog out of its cage without it biting alphetasaucxe! Clearly, it hasn't been in the cage long enough too learn manners!
Fricking r-slur
@GabrielMartinelli stand with Israel only if Israel is destroyed
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@TheNecroSeether why haven't you replied yet? I thought you loved me…
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The infopic is silly because it's assuming that "because of those poor conditions," they're in their current rut. But really it's been their decades-long policy of being antagonistic terrorists that have led them there.
Think of South Africa with its Zululand, Lesotho, and Xhosa regions. Those groups hate each other and have shed plenty of each other's blood in the past, yet they're all doing well enough post apartheid. Their property rights issue was mostly resolved peacefully, so they're not nearly as antagonistic as Israel and its three neighboring Palestinian regions.
The groups in SA chose a vastly different approach to politics than the Palestinians did, and look where it got them.
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Yeah, basically my thoughts on the matter, with some considerations that there's likely no other "solution".
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Yes I remember how all concentration camps are allowed to self-govern, given generous support that allows 70% of the population to become obese, and have massive arsenals of rocket artillery, small arms and vehicles useful for organized raids
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Traitor in our midst !jidf
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@SpooksSpookAndSpook kick him out
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No, im too lazy to accept applicants so I jannied him to do it and i assume he at least occasionally does it (idk i have never checked). Im also too lazy to read the context here so im just going to assume he has a pro-Jewish point here somehow
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So just like how commies during that time were against it ?
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Edit: to be Polish and not know the difference is really sad. I expect this from the Hungarian, you should know better.
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I was busy so I only read keywords. Doesn't change much since soviets outlawed and suspended discussion about ŻZW and pretended they didnt have any presence during the uprising
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Neighbor it was three words. 3! 3!
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Don't care I can't bother to read all your ramblings when im at uni
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....it was a 3 word name. You couldn't read 3 words. You're actually 18 aren't you?
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Yea
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Yes, people like you definitely would be, considering the commies just waited it out until their previous allies annihilated every jew in Warsaw, before swooping in and once again annihilating their intellectuals once more. Normal non-bootlicking people wish they would have killed every nazi there.
But I'm not surprised you haven't even unequivocally came out against Palestine pookie, must be having another schizophrenic episode when it turns out (yet again) that anti-western and anti-semitic people are the two sides of the same coin.
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You're unironically r-slurred.
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I know you'll cope later about how you're just pretending to be retarded to bait me, but man.
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At least I'm unequivocally in support of my israeli brothers, while you have been suspicously absent, only turning up to say that "Palestine and Iran is right, but haha I don't support them haha, but they are super right BTW".
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Work harder on your bait next time.
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It's not a bait when it's true.
Do you agree that Israel is unequivocally on the right side of history and palestinians and their allies (including Iran) deserve to burn in righteous nuclear hellfire for threathening the jewish homeland and everyone who supports them militarily or diplomatically against Israel should meet the same fate?
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jokes on you bud. i dont know what either one is
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising
Spend 10 minutes reading these.
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no
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Didn't Zhukov just let the Nazis finish off the Home Army before swooping in?
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Wrong uprising. Christ how historically illiterate are you people? This is one of the most famous acts of Jewish resistance against the nazis...
!r-slurs this entire thread is for you.
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It's not my fault you didn't specify which one.
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Are you retarded?
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Yes.
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At least you can admit it. That already makes you better than anyone else in this thread. Seriously 3 words is too many...
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Someone needs to write SS Blood Meridian
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What is up with the Nazi's uniform
And what's up with that nose
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