Anti-Israeli protesters at Harvard College flew a Palestinian flag on the Ivy League faculty in spot often reserved for the American flag as campus demonstrations proceed to spiral uncontrolled.
The stunning show on Saturday got here as radical college students continued to occupy the campus, with video circulating on-line displaying three college students elevating the Palestinian flag over the enduring statue of John Harvard — the place the Stars & Stripes are meant to fly.
In response to The Harvard Crimson, the flag-raising incident came about shortly after 6:30 p.m. In complete three flags have been hoisted on the campus, the report mentioned.
Faculty spokesman Jonathan Swain condemned it as “a violation of College coverage” and mentioned “the people concerned can be topic to disciplinary motion.
However on-line customers had even stronger reactions.
“These pro-Hamas protesters’ sole agenda is to eradicate each western worth and each fundamental human proper whereas establishing an Islamic Sharia legislation regime,” X person Mor Hogeg posted Sunday.
“They’re beginning with the Jews in Israel as their fundamental goal and can proceed with your complete west,” he wrote. “It isn’t a combat of Israel towards Hamas – the combat is between a tradition of life and a tradition of dying. WAKE UP!”
One other person referred to as for armed intervention.
“That is the place the Nationwide Guard must be referred to as in,” Mark Isaacson wrote. “Alternatively, with our representatives in congress waving Ukrainian flags, it’s not as if these younger individuals have nice function fashions.”
The Crimson mentioned the flag pole on the Harvard statue usually flies the American flag however has additionally had the flags of visiting international dignitaries displayed once they go to the campus.
The outlet mentioned there was no US flag flying on the time of Saturday’s incident, and mentioned the Stars & Stripes is often hoisted at 7 a.m. from Monday via Friday and lowered at 4 p.m. “for correct storage.”
The housing of the Palestinian flag got here as anti-Israeli college students encamped on the varsity grounds chanted and cheered, “Free, free Palestine,” and “We flay for Palestine.”
Comparable scenes have performed out at school campuses all through the US, together with Columbia College within the Large Apple and different Ivy League universities.
The demonstrations have been sparked by Israel’s counteroffensive in response to a sneak assault on the Jewish State by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7 that left greater than 1,000 Israelis useless.
In response to the Harvard Crimson, college staffers pulled down the Palestinian flag shortly after it was run up the flagpole on Saturday, as college students jeered at them.
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