‘Head still on’: Posters of Israeli hostages in Gaza defaced at Harvard

A number of posters of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and put up at Harvard University have been defaced with hate graffiti.

Photos and footage circulating online show the posters bearing antisemitic conspiracy theory slogans such as “Israel did 9/11” and “I knew Epstein personally,” in reference to Jeffrey Epstein.

On the poster of Hamas’s youngest hostage, one-year-old Kfir Bibas, someone wrote “head still on.”

The night before Harvard begins a new semester, every single Jewish hostage poster on campus has been defaced with vile antisemitism. @LHSummers @BillAckman pic.twitter.com/uVg4mLV1rZ

— Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) January 22, 2024

Other posters bore slogans such as “Sure, Jan,” a popular response to someone saying something not believable to the listener.

Jewish students returning to @Harvard for the spring semester were met by horrific antisemitic vandalism scrawled on every poster of Israeli hostages hung on campus.
Harvard has yet to comment. Meanwhile, Harvard's co-chair of its newly-created presidential task force on… pic.twitter.com/gu76kVvQ8k

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) January 23, 2024

The graffiti was discovered yesterday as university students return to campus after winter break.

Channel 12 reports that a group of Israeli students at the university have filed a complaint with the administration.

Harvard University, which has faced accusations of letting antisemitism run rampant on campus, has yet to comment on the posters.

Harvard’s former president Dr. Claudine Gay, resigned earlier this month amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over her testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy. She later apologized.

Posters of the hostages have been routinely defaced and torn down in cities all over the world.