{"id":2213783,"date":"2024-04-05T12:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T16:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-hires-24-7-security-to-protect-anti-israel-apartheid-wall-featuring-quote-from-famous-terrorist\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T12:53:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T16:53:26","slug":"harvard-hires-24-7-security-to-protect-anti-israel-apartheid-wall-featuring-quote-from-famous-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-hires-24-7-security-to-protect-anti-israel-apartheid-wall-featuring-quote-from-famous-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Boosts Security for Controversial &#8216;Apartheid Wall&#8217; Amid Terrorist Quote Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharvard-hires-24-7-security-to-protect-anti-israel-apartheid-wall-featuring-quote-from-famous-terrorist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2213783&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Harvard University has heightened security\u2063 to safeguard \u2062an anti-Israel &#8220;apartheid wall&#8221; \u200dadorned with contentious artwork and a quote from\u200c a\u2062 terrorist organization leader. The\u200b display features a quote by Ghassan Kanafani,\u2063 a former spokesperson \u2062for a Palestinian terrorist group linked to past atrocities. The security detail, provided by a contracted\u2062 firm, has faced scrutiny regarding their\u200b conduct while protecting the exhibit.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harvard University is employing around-the-clock security to protect an anti-Israel \u201capartheid wall\u201d created by students that features a quote from the leader of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The wall includes various anti-Israel art and a quote from Ghassan Kanafani, the former spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a communist Palestinian terrorist organization known for hijacking aircraft and mass murder. Kanafani was assassinated in Beirut in June of 1972 by the Mossad after being linked to the massacre of 26 people\u2014including American tourists\u2014at Ben Gurion airport two months earlier, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/jns\/united-kingdom\/23\/7\/9\/301202\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">according to Jewish News Syndicate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era,\u201d the Kanafani quote reads.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The guards have been giving the display 24-hour coverage while sporting jackets with a Securitas logo, a security firm that has a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2024\/1\/30\/securitas-retaliation-case-settled\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">relationship with<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Harvard. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Harvard alum who lives near campus told The Daily Wire that one of the security guards started yelling when asked who he was employed by. <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_719221\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-719221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Securitas guard protecting Harvard\u2019s \u201capartheid wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHe thought that we were filming and started yelling at us that we are escalating the situation and that he is going to call his supervisor,\u201d the alum who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of retribution said. \u201cHe started walking to the car and then turned around and started yelling that we are going to threaten him in his family, because this is what \u2018you people do,\u2019 threaten people and steal their lands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>When the alum notified the Harvard Police, they confirmed he worked for a security firm contracted by the school and said that the guard would not return to protect the wall.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harvard-law-students-resign-from-student-govt-over-secret-ballot-anti-israel-vote\">Harvard Law Students Resign From Student Govt Over Secret Ballot Anti-Israel Vote<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_719225\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-719225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A quote on Harvard University\u2019s \u201capartheid wall\u201d from former PFLP terrorist Ghassan Kanafani.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cTo pay to have a guard 24\/7 protecting a wall that displays statements issued by U.S.-designated terror organizations, and propagates conspiracies against Israel and the Jewish people, and simultaneously not do so to protect posters of hostages whose photos have been hatefully and regularly defaced and vandalized, is bizarre and poor judgment in the extreme,\u201d Harvard Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi told The Daily Wire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harvard-accused-of-promoting-eco-terrorism-for-plans-to-screen-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-film\"><b>Harvard Accused Of Promoting Eco-Terrorism For Plans To Screen \u2018How To Blow Up A Pipeline\u2019 Film<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fliers of Jewish civilians taken hostage by Hamas have been repeatedly vandalized on campus, including last month when a groundskeeper employed by a company contracted by Harvard <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-harvard-employee-flips-out-after-he-was-caught-ripping-down-israeli-hostage-posters\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">acted aggressively<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  when being confronted for ripping down posters. He was asked to leave campus and will not be assigned to work on campus again, according to a Harvard spokesperson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In another incident, hostage posters <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/israel-did-9-11-harvard-campus-littered-with-anti-semitic-graffiti-ahead-of-new-semester\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">were vandalized<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  with anti-Semitic and 9\/11 conspiracy graffiti at the start of this spring semester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In December, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harvard-does-not-have-our-back-rabbi-slams-university-at-hanukkah-event-attended-by-claudine-gay\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zarchi revealed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  for the first time that the university told him that he must put away the menorah he lights on campus during Hannukah to avoid vandalism. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/video-anti-israel-mob-at-harvard-chants-outside-israeli-popstar-ishay-ribos-concert\"><b>VIDEO: Anti-Israel Mob At Harvard Chants Outside Israeli Popstar Ishay Ribo\u2019s Concert<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe university, since the first Hanukkah, would not allow us to keep this menorah here overnight because there is fear that it will be vandalized,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cWe in the Jewish community are instructed, \u2018We\u2019ll let you have the menorah. You made your point. Okay, pack it up. Don\u2019t leave it out overnight because there will be criminal activity, we fear, and it won\u2019t look good.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt pains me to have to say, sadly, that Jew-hate and anti-Semitism is thriving on this campus,\u201d he added. \u201c26 years I\u2019ve given my life to this community. I\u2019ve never felt so alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shabbos Kestenbaum, a graduate student who is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">suing Harvard<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  over claims of enabling anti-Semitism, said the quote is part of a bigger trend of anti-Jewish hate on the campus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt is hardly surprising that the same group of students who interrupt classes to yell about globalizing the intifada, publish and promote anti-Semitic cartoons, and intimidate Jewish students on campus would also be comfortable quoting and glorifying Palestinian terrorism,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harvard University did not respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard deploys 24\/7 security for anti-Israel \u201capartheid wall\u201d quoting a leader of a U.S.-designated terrorist group. 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