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Mapping a future genocide at Harvard? Antisemitic slogan and map displayed prominently at protestors encampment
The river-to-the-sea slogan was condemned last fall by now former Harvard President Claudine Gay as antisemitic.
To a “great many people” the phrase implies “the eradication of Jews from Israel,” Gay said in a statement in November.
And in February, interim Harvard President Alan Garber pledged to tackle “pernicious antisemitism” on Harvard’s campus.
Yet a sign saying “From The River To The Sea” - and an accompanying map of Israel with genocidal connotations - was on prominent display just a few days ago at the encampment set up by protestors at Harvard, as can be seen below.
Jeffrey Fredberg, a professor emeritus at Harvard in the field of bioengineering and physiology, provided the photo to Contrarian Boston.
The map includes Arabic names below the names of major Israeli cities and towns.
At the very least, the map implies “the destruction of the Jewish state and its replacement by something else: from the water to the water, Palestine will be Arab,” Fredberg tells Contrarian Boston.
But Fredberg contends the map, viewed in the context of the Hamas charter, the group’s Oct. 7th terror attack on Israeli communities, and its vow to repeat such attacks, points to an even darker conclusion: genocide.
“If any student in the Harvard encampment claims otherwise, then that student is being disingenuous,” Fredberg said, adding his political inclinations are “of the left.”
Why the guessing game here? The students and other protestors camped out at Harvard are for the most part refusing to talk about their motivations and beliefs to the media, or even to a distinguished professor like Fredberg.
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Fredberg found this out firsthand when he showed up at the encampment last Wednesday, Israeli flag pin on his lapel, and attempted to engage in an intellectual discourse with the protestors, only to be brushed aside.
Fredberg said he always welcomed disagreement in his classes and used it as an opportunity to work through opposing ideas.
“That is what should happen in a university,” Fredberg told Contrarian Boston. “We don’t have to like each other, we could be in competition with each other, but we engage.”
“If you are not willing to engage, you should not be at Harvard University, or at any university,” he said.
So exactly what is going on in the mind of the protestors who have effectively taken the Harvard campus hostage?
What little we know is far from reassuring. David @laRemnick, editor of the New Yorker, interviewed a student, described as a leader of the Harvard protests, on the New Yorker Radio Hour on Sunday night.
Pressed on her seeming lack of any sympathy for the victims of the Oct. 7th attacks by Hamas, the student, who insisted on anonymity, offered up this chilling remark: “No one likes the taste of blood in their mouths.”
What a despicable thing to say about a wanton spree of killing and sexual violence that took the lives of more than 1,200 men, women and children - not to mention the taking of 240 hostages.
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