The antisemitic cartoon roiling Harvard? It's not the first time it caused a firestorm
When the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Harvard African and African American Resistance Organization put together an infographic for Instagram, their goal was to showcase the historic connections between the Black and Palestinian liberation movements.
They gathered old images of Black activists who had been vocal advocates of the Palestinian cause, including Angela Davis and Malcolm X.
They quoted Nelson Mandela: "Freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."
And they plucked an old cartoon from the archives of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee — one that roiled the civil rights movement when it first appeared in 1967 and has lost none of its ability to outrage. The drawing shows a white hand, marked with a dollar sign inside a Star of David, tightening nooses around the necks of a Black man and an Arab man.
Drawn by Black artist Herman "Kofi" Bailey, it first appeared and furious condemnation of the SNCC from Jewish community leaders.
