Presenting the Harvard Class of (October 7) '23
When you blame Jewish victims for their suffering on a scale so outrageous, you have joined a very exclusive fraternity.
We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” (Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups' statement, after 1,300, Jews, Muslims and Christians, elderly, infirmed, babies, women, children and men, were murdered by genocidal trerrorists from Hamas)
We fight hate wherever it rears its ugly head. Right now, it's manifested in this grotesque pattern of blaming the Jews for their own suffering. And when you blame Jewish victims for such unfathomable suffering as occurred at the hands of Hamas on October 7, thereby whitewashing and justifying genocidal crimes, this is the fraternity you have joined:
Item - Persian Empire: "Haman then said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people, scattered and dispersed among the other peoples in all the provinces of your realm, whose laws are different from those of any other people and who do not obey the king’s laws; and it is not in Your Majesty’s interest to tolerate them." (Esther 3:8)
Item -1543: "Alas, it cannot be anything but the terrible wrath of God which permits anyone to sink into such abysmal, devilish, hellish, insane baseness, envy, and arrogance. If I were to avenge myself on the devil himself I should be unable to wish him such evil and misfortune as God’s wrath inflicts on the Jews, compelling them to lie and to blaspheme so monstrously, in violation of their own conscience. Anyway, they have their reward for constantly giving God the lie." (Martin Luther, "The Jews and Their Lies")
Item - 1919: "(Henry Ford) attributes all evil to Jews or to the Jewish capitalists," the friend wrote in his diary. "The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy…"
Item -1925: "Here he stops at nothing, and in his vileness he becomes so gigantic that no one need be surprised if among our people the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew... Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." (Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf")
Item - 2014: A television news anchor on a state-owned Russian television network said the Jews brought the Holocaust on themselves. Evelina Zakamskaya of the Rossiya 24 channel made the statement earlier this week during an interview with writer Aleksandr Prokhanov on the Ukraine crisis. The interview was first made public by Americablog.
In the words of Brown-RISD Hillel director Rabbi Josh Bolton, "Accusations that somehow Jews are responsible for the horrific violence perpetrated against them are morally repugnant. We will not be silent in the face of this rhetoric."