Truck Bearing Names, Pictures of Alleged Hamas-Sympathizing Students Drives Around Harvard Campus

Protesters hold signs in support of Palestine "resistance" during a rally at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Oct. 14, 2023. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—A truck bearing giant pictures and the names of the Harvard students who according to the group Accuracy in Media (AIM) spoke in support of Hamas and the terrorist group’s brutal attack on Israel has been driving around the clock for days around the college’s campus.

The truck first showed up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the afternoon of Oct. 11, students at the Ivy League school told The Epoch Times.

The title “Harvard’s Leading Antisemites” is emblazoned on all four sides of the large box truck.

Also printed on all sides of the truck is a link to the website of the Washington, D.C.-based conservative advocacy group AIM, which organized the truck. The group says it calls out what it believes is liberal-left bias in media reporting, regarding issues such as conflating the Hamas terrorist group with the Palestinian cause, without providing the wider context of the ongoing civil war raging between factions vying for leadership of the Palestinian people, and blaming all Palestinian suffering on Israel.

AIM President Adam Guillette told The Epoch Times that the truck is intended to out Harvard students for supporting Hamas’s brutal assault and the violence perpetrated against innocent Israeli civilians.

He said that although the truck has received a positive response, it has also been attacked. On Oct. 13, Mr. Guillette said a “mob” of what appeared to be “college students” threatened the driver, sprayed painted the truck, banged on it, and then ultimately threw a brick at it.

“The funny thing is they claimed that they are concerned our truck was going to cause violence,” Mr. Guillette said. “But look who’s committing the violence.”

In all, about 34 student organizations signed a letter of support “in solidarity” with the Hamas terrorists who carried out such savagery as gang-raping women and then parading their dead naked bodies in the back of a pickup truck.

The letter supporting Hamas—which is still engaged in a fight for leadership of the Palestinian people with the Fatah—referred to the Israelis as the “apartheid regime” and said they were solely to blame for a “colonial retaliation.”

The organizations that signed the pro-Hamas pledge include the African American Resistance Organization, Harvard Muslim Law School Association, and the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee.

A Harvard graduate student who signed the solidarity statement told the Boston Herald on Oct. 12 that he’s afraid for his safety now that he is being “doxxed” by the AIM truck.

Mr. Guillette said “no one is being doxxed” by his organization and that it was the students themselves who publicly listed their names and photos on the very Facebook pages of the student organizations calling for solidarity for the Hamas terrorists.

“I think it’s hysterical and outrageous that—where Facebook was invented—that they are shocked that their names and faces are publicly available,” he said.

Jewish Students Respond

Several Jewish students and others on Harvard’s campus spoke with The Epoch Times on the condition of anonymity. One of them partially pulled his yarmulke from his coat pocket and then shoved it back inside, saying “usually, I would wear this today, but I’m honestly afraid to even put this on.”

The young man, who asked to be identified only as Jack S., was on campus for Shabbat 100, an annual Jewish celebration on the Harvard campus.

A volunteer for event organizer Harvard Chabad said the event was scheduled long ago and sadly has fallen on the same week that Hamas decided to attack Israel, which led to the anti-Semitic protests by Harvard students in support of the slaughter carried out by the terrorist group.

Another student who asked to be identified only by his first name, Aaron, told The Epoch Times that Harvard’s failure to expel the students for supporting such violence is especially offensive to him from a university that has threatened to discipline students for not using gender-preferred pronouns.

“It’s funny how a microaggression over pronouns can get you kicked off campus but real violence doesn’t get a response,” Aaron said.

Dozens of posters of women, men, and children—including babies—missing and presumed kidnapped by Hamas during the attack are also hung throughout the Harvard campus. The same posters, which are headlined “KIDNAPPED,” were also put up all over the campus of nearby MIT.

Posters of those suspected of being abducted by Palestinian terrorists in Israel are hung throughout Harvard University's campus. Photo by Alice Giordano

The Jewish organization Mishelanu, which in Hebrew means “one of us,” put up the posters. The national organization is made up of students from around the country who are second-generation Israeli-Americans.

Many passersby stopped to look at the posters displayed on two outdoor kiosks at Harvard. On one of the posters is 8-month-old Israeli Kfir, dressed in a onesie and playing with a toy. On more posters are 2-year-old Aviv and 4-year-old Ariel. The kidnapped posters were alongside a poster for a seminar on philosophers Homer and Plato titled “The Problem of Justice.”

A large sandwich board advertising a drag queen skating event sponsored by Harvard’s Office of Gender Equity was placed near the posters and just opposite where the Shabbat celebration was being set up.

Mr. Guillette said that LGBTQ groups have been participating in the anti-Semitic protests his organization has encountered.

“It’s crazy because if they were in the Middle East, they would be thrown off a bridge,” he said, referring to Hamas’s treatment of LGBTQ-identifying people. “They just don’t seem to get what they are supporting.”

Backtrack

Several students who signed the letter of solidarity in support of Hamas have withdrawn their names from the letter.

Mr. Guillette told The Epoch Times that his organization will continue to drive its truck in protest of the students’ message around Harvard campus indefinitely.

Later on Oct. 13, several Republican Harvard alumni sent an open letter to Harvard President Claudine Gay demanding that the college make a “clear condemnation” of anti-Semitism.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) were among the signatories of the letter.

Several Harvard officials, including Ms. Gay, have issued statements condemning the attacks on Israel and have emphasized that they do not stand with the student groups who backed the Hamas terrorists.

In January, the school granted a fellowship to former Human Rights Watch Director Ken Roth, a controversial Israel critic who has made public anti-Semitic comments.

When Douglas Elmendorf, dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School, initially rejected Mr. Roth for a fellowship, more than 1,000 Harvard students, faculty, and alumni called for Dean Elmendorf’s resignation.

Dean Elmendorf reversed course, calling his rejection “an error.”

Meanwhile, Harvard isn’t the only Boston-area college where students have publicly supported Hamas’s actions.

The student group “Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine” at nearby Tufts University, ranked one of the top medical schools in the country, praised Hamas for its “creativity” in its brutal attacks on Israelis.