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Sidney Chalhoub pledged to support 'Palestinian liberation' as part of Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine The chairman of Harvard University's history department is a member of a faculty group, Harvard Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, that posted an anti-Semitic cartoon over the holiday weekend depicting a hand emblazoned with the Star of David holding a noose around the necks of one black man and one Arab man. In the background, a black arm swings a machete scrawled with the phrase, "liberation movement." The image was...

Harvard University condemned Monday the use of antisemitic imagery in a post by pro-Palestine groups and announced it would be investigating the matter, The Harvard Crimson reported.

Harvard University is probing an anti-Semitic cartoon that both faculty and student groups shared Monday, the school announced. "Such despicable messages have no place in the Harvard community," the university said Monday in a statement. "We condemn these posts in the strongest possible terms.