Anti-Israel protesters march through Harvard, chanting ‘long live the intifada’

Anti-Israel protesters march through Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, waving Palestinian flags and chanting antisemitic slogans.

Videos posted to social media show the protesters chanting, “Long live the intifada” and “Globalize the intifada,”  a reference to periods of deadly Palestinian terror attacks against Israeli civilians in the late 1980s and early 1990s and again in the early 2000s.

The protest was organized by the pro-Palestinian student group Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, The Boston Globe reports.

The pro-terror mob is marching through @Harvard screaming "long live the intifada" and "globalize the intifada."

To be clear, they may as well be screaming "kill the Jews."

If they were screaming for the slaughter of any other minority, you know this would never be tolerated. pic.twitter.com/saHqqTnQuo

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) September 6, 2024

A pro-Israel stand sent up near the protest bears a sign reading, “Hamas Murders Kidnaps Rapes,” according to the Globe report.

Harvard has been the scene of anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protests that spread across US campuses against the background of the ongoing war in Gaza, which erupted after Hamas’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel.

A task force charged with reporting on antisemitism at Harvard concluded in June that Israeli students at the Ivy League university were facing “dire” exclusion on the US campus.

Harvard’s handling of Jewish student concerns has been under intense criticism from Jewish circles after October 7, with President Claudine Gay resigning in January following a congressional hearing at which she did not say whether “calls for the genocide of Jews” violated university conduct.

Additionally, at commencement in May, the Harvard Chabad director publicly confronted an invited speaker over what he believed was an antisemitic comment in her speech.