Just hours after the death of oneTo mark the anniversary of the October 7 massacre in Israel, vandals smashed windows on Harvard’s campus and poured red paint on the school’s namesake statue in “an act of solidarity with the Palestinian resistance,” according to an online post .
The online group “Unity of Fields,” which publishes insult videos from across the country, posted a video of Tuesday’s vandalism. The video included the caption: “Bring the war home.”
“In the early hours of 10/8, autonomous actors at Harvard smashed the windows of the main administrative building and vandalized the statue of John Harvard in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance,” read a message accompanying the video. “We are determined to bring the war home and answer the call to open a new front here in the belly of the beast.”
Harvard University Police told Fox News Digital that the incident is under investigation.
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“It is a long-standing policy of the Harvard University Police Department not to comment on open investigations,” a department spokesperson said.
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Unity of Fields also published photos showing the UMass Amherst campus defaced with pro-Palestinian graffiti.
An anonymous submission from the group accused UMass Amherst of being “complicit in genocide through its partnerships with Raytheon and other war profiteers.”
“Both Raytheon and General Dynamics were present at their technical career fair. Both are weapons manufacturers who are deeply complicit in genocide. UMass Foundation also invests in several war-profiteering companies, meaning our tuition goes directly to genocide,” the message reads. read.
The anonymous message warned readers to expect more “autonomous actions at UMass Amherst.”
“We will not rest until the war profiteers are gone and Palestine is completely liberated,” the message concluded.
A spokesperson for UMass Amherst told Fox News Digital that the university is “aware of incidents under investigation by the UMass Police Department.”
“We do not comment further on investigations,” the spokesperson said.
It is unclear what ties the perpetrators had to Harvard or UMass Amhest.
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Both incidents raise the specter of renewed anti-Israel protests that swept college campuses during the spring semester. The National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) is organizing a nationwide “Week of Rage” on campuses, starting on the anniversary of October 7.
Monday marked one year since Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel, killing nearly 1,200 people and taking hundreds of others hostage. Israel responded by waging war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, where fighting has killed an estimated 41,000 Palestinians and displaced nearly 2 million people.
The conflict has spread across the region, with Israel battling Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, facing escalating threats from Houthi rebels in Yemen and escalating tensions with Iran.
Original article source: Anti-Israel agitators violate Harvard statute day after October 7 anniversary: ’Bring the war home’
