{"id":2232522,"date":"2024-04-29T09:55:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/palestinian-flag-replaces-american-flag-at-harvard-until-police-step-in\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T09:56:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T13:56:20","slug":"palestinian-flag-replaces-american-flag-at-harvard-until-police-step-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/palestinian-flag-replaces-american-flag-at-harvard-until-police-step-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian flag briefly flew at Harvard before police intervention"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fpalestinian-flag-replaces-american-flag-at-harvard-until-police-step-in%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=2232522&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>Anti-Israel protesters at Harvard University raised Palestinian flags in place of the American flag, \u2062leading \u2062to police intervention. The incident\u200d occurred in Harvard Yard, where protesters chanted in \u200csupport \u200cof Palestine before security removed the\u2063 flags. \u200bThe\u2064 university denounced the act as a violation of policy,\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/intel-will-put-unvaccinated-employees-on-unpaid-leave\/\" title=\"Intel Will Put Unvaccinated Employees on Unpaid Leave\">threatening disciplinary action<\/a> against the individuals involved. Anti-Israel protests have spread to various\u2062 colleges, sparking controversy and\u2064 responses from officials and media sources.  <\/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<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/%20\"><span>Jack Davis<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   April 29, 2024 at 6:38am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Anti-Israel protesters at Harvard University hoisted Palestinian flags on Saturday where an American flag usually flies on the campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>In storied Harvard Yard, by a statute of John Harvard, protesters hoisted three Palestinian flags at about 6 p.m. when an American flag and any others flying there had been taken down for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>In a little over half an hour, security was called to take down the flags, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2024\/4\/28\/palestine-flag-harvard-yard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Harvard Crimson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters yelled \u201cShame!\u201d and chanted \u201cFree, free Palestine\u201d and \u201cFrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Video of Harvard students raising the Palestinian flag.<\/p>\n<p>They did this an hour after the dean reiterated that participants in the encampment would be disciplined.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re making a mockery of Harvard \u2014 if that\u2019s even possible anymore. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/plEaLIzYq3\">https:\/\/t.co\/plEaLIzYq3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YvIiIwYNbS\">pic.twitter.com\/YvIiIwYNbS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sfmcguire79\/status\/1784357285340344562?\">April 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hilarious-anti-israel-protesters-harvard-struck-2-m-sprinklers-cold-night\/\">Harvard<\/a> spokesman Jonathan Swain said in a statement Saturday night that raising the flags was \u201ca violation of University policy and the individuals involved will be subject to disciplinary action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The university has been scanning the IDs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-schoolgirl-admits-lying-about-teacher-who-was-murdered-for-showing-class-muhammed-cartoons\/\" title=\"French Schoolgirl Admits Lying About Teacher Who Was Murdered For Showing Class Muhammed Cartoons\">student protesters<\/a> and has warned of disciplinary action that could include withholding degrees at commencement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor well over 200 days, Harvard has ignored the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Until they agree to meet our demands to disclose and divest from Israeli apartheid and occupation, we will make Palestine unavoidable. We will continue this liberated zone and fly the spirit of Palestine!\u201d Harvard protesters said in a post on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C6SCfe5uQe4\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Harvard protest is part of anti-Israel protests that began at Columbia University in New York and have since spread to other colleges.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a protester with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-ivy-league-school-enough-arrests-pro-palestinian-protesters-clears-tent-camp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Palestinian<\/a> flag at George Washington University was photographed with a placard bearing the words \u201cfinal solution,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/26\/us-news\/protester-with-final-solution-sign-that-threatens-extermination-of-jews-spotted-at-gwu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>. Those were the words used by Nazi Germany when it sought to exterminate the Jewish people.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No mask can hide the fact that college students are openly supporting terrorists. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uUktnySjgC\">pic.twitter.com\/uUktnySjgC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AvivaKlompas\/status\/1783928506738438319?\">April 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/28\/opinion\/the-pro-palestine-protests-real-do-seek-a-final-solution\/\">New York Post<\/a> editorial said students have become pawns of anti-Semitic haters since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael\u2019s war is entirely just; the protest movement consists entirely of the malevolent and the idiotic: Nazi equivalents and their enablers. And it\u2019s the ones who know what they\u2019re doing who are calling all the shots,\u201d the Post wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In an Op-Ed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/article-798998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Jerusalem Post<\/a> addressed to \u201cthe Silent Ones,\u201d Israeli-American Columbia University grad student Becca Baitel said the time has come to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/anti-semitism-report-nearly-75-universities-received-c-worse\/\">call out hate<\/a> and stand up for what is right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my silent friends, I have seen you watch my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-behind-libs-of-tiktok-gets-full-on-assassination-threat-pic-of-gun-twitter-initially-shrugs\/\" title=\"Woman Behind Libs Of TikTok Gets Full-On \u2018Assassination\u2019 Threat, Pic Of Gun; Twitter Initially Shrugs\">social media stories<\/a>, championing other causes in the name of social justice and so passionately engaging in discourse,\u201d she wrote. \u201cYet, as antisemitic violence and pro-terror rhetoric emboldens our very college campuses, you are suddenly nowhere to be found. Your ignorance, avoidance, and cowardice is omnipresent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents are being physically assaulted by angry mobs, ones which continuously celebrate Hamas\u2019 atrocities and undermine the collective mourning and trauma of our people.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Do you support Israel\u2019s fight to eradicate Hamas?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Baitel said, \u201cWe should not have to beg for your empathy because you are too afraid. We do not ask for pity, rather, seek recognition of our community\u2019s ongoing pain and recurring battles we must fight every day as not only Columbia students, but Jews navigating a post-10\/7 world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile unintentional, it is the silence of those too timid to call out Anti-Semitism who have allowed these demonstrations to escalate in both scope and intensity. To those I beg the question, \u2018What are you so afraid of?\u2019 I implore you to rise above your apathy and fear before it is too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am tired of rationalizing and justifying the silence for the sake of your comfort,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThere has been far too much of it and I have reached my limit. Many of us have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Retreat, Baitel said, is not an option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Jews, we will not cower and submit to the hateful narratives being perpetuated around us on a daily basis,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWe will stand firm in our place, embracing Jewish joy as resilience. No force, group, or administration can strip us of our unwavering determination and everlasting spirit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a narrative deeply embedded in our history, yet we, as Jews in the diaspora, are rewriting it. But we can\u2019t do it without the help of our loved ones and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d Those 12 words have been stuck in my head since I first read them. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn recently made that comment to Floyd Brown, founder of The Western Journal. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>And if the leftists and the elites get their way, that\u2019s exactly what will happen \u2014 no real election, no real choice for the Electoral College, and no real say for the American people. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal is fighting to keep that from happening, but we can\u2019t do it alone.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We work tirelessly to expose the lying leftist media and the corrupt America-hating elites.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>But Big Tech\u2019s stranglehold is now so tight that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without help<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  from you, we will not be able to continue the fight. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The 2024 election is literally the most important election for every living American. We have to unite and fight for our country, otherwise we will lose it. And if we lose the America we love in 2024, we\u2019ll lose it for good. Can we <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>count on you<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  to help? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>With you we will be able to field journalists, do more investigative work, expose more corruption, and get desperately needed truth to millions of Americans. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We can do this only with your help. Please don\u2019t wait one minute.<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>  Donate right now<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Thank you for reading,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>P.S. Please <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>stand with us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  today.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-44685\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44685\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44685\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44685\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44685\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues. <br \/> Jack can be reached at jackwritings1@gmail.com. <\/p>\n<p>  Location <\/p>\n<p>  New York City <\/p>\n<p>  Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p>  English <\/p>\n<p>  Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p>  Politics, Foreign Policy, Military &#038; Defense Issues <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Israel protesters at Harvard University replaced the American flag with Palestinian flags in the iconic Harvard Yard. 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