A Harvard University faculty group. the“Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine,” had the anti-Semitic cartoons above appear on its Instagram page. It is a newly-formed organization of Harvard University faculty and staff “committed to supporting the cause of Palestinian liberation,” as the group explains on its webpage. It “wholeheartedly reject[s] accusations that critique of the Israeli state is antisemitic.” One hundred and twelve members signed a statement that attacks “Israel’s genocidal war and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.” The group does not mention Hamas or the terrorist attack that thrust the terrorist organization and Gaza into war with Israel.

Rabbi David Wolpe, the Harvard Divinity School scholar who resigned from the anti-Semitism advisory committee set up by disgraced ex-Harvard president Claudine Gay, wrote at the time that he had concluded that “the system at Harvard… is itself evil.” In reaction to the above cartoons, Wolper wrote on Twitter/X, “The cartoon is despicably, inarguably antisemitic. Is there no limit?”

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If you enjoy watching a Harvard professor revealing herself as complete asshole to colleagues, students, the news media, everyone, really—and who doesn’t?—-you’ll love this story.

Harvard professor Jennifer L. Hochschild was one of the scholars ex-Harvard president Claudine Gay plagiarized on the way to academic infamy. She was also one of those who lacked the integrity to agree to what should have been obvious, which is that having a record of serial ethical misconduct was something no president of Harvard could or should weather. Like many on the DEI side of the culture, her response to the revelations of Gay’s lack of fitness for her job was to attack the conservatives, notably gadfly Christopher Rufo, who uncovered the damning evidence that Gay was a cheat. Rufo cites among his own credentials“a master’s from Harvard,” and Hochschild set out to tar him as a hypocrite for this, tweeting,

Even if the criticism of Rufo were justified—more on that in a nonce—this was a damning tweet…for the professor. Attacking the messenger who carries unwelcome but accurate information is a logical fallacy, an ad hominem attack, and exactly the kind of weak reasoning and unethical practice the world’s most self-congratulatory university is supposed to purge from its graduates. But those determined to protect Gay, Harvard’s diversity-hire, “historic” female president “of color” by any means possible, stooped to this gutter tactic en masse and almost the second Gay’s embarrassing performance at a congressional hearing focused national attention of her deficits and the sick university culture she represented. Her performance was just fine because conservatives criticized it.

The tweet was especially odd for Hochschild, who teaches at the very same Harvard Extension School whose students she slammed as “not really Harvard grads.” The “X” community quickly slapped a “context” note on the tweet…

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