New York Post

New stains at Harvard

Even vs. baby’s flyer

- By YARON STEINBUCH and ALYSSA GUZMAN

Posters of Hamas hostages have been defaced across Harvard University — with images showing sick graffiti referencin­g pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and blaming Israel for the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

A poster (above left) of the youngest hostage, Kfir Bibas, who turned 1 last week, was tagged with a vile message: “Head still on.”

“Jewish students at Harvard returned from winter break this week excited to start the spring term,” Getzel Davis, the Harvard Hillel campus rabbi, told The Post.

“Instead, they were confronted with vandalism, the defacement of hostage posters, and vile antisemiti­c conspiracy theories. This is inexcusabl­e and intolerabl­e,” he said.

The rabbi called on the Ivy League school to “step up and do more” to protect them.

Harvard Divinity School student Alexander “Shabbos” Kestenbaum shared images on X, writing that “every single Jewish hostage poster on campus has been defaced with vile antisemiti­sm.”

“Jews are neither safe nor welcomed at Harvard,” he claimed.

A school rep said the university “strongly condemns the senseless and horrific vandalizat­ion on Harvard’s campus.”

The defaced posters have been removed, the spokespers­on told The Post.

Harvard Yard, where the posters are located, is accessible to the public and the school does remove all flyers and postings from the Yard on Mondays and Thursdays.

It was not clear if the vandals were students.

Pedophile smear

The message on the poster for Kfir was an apparent reference to reports that babies were beheaded during the slaughter of about 1,200 people on Oct. 7, when Hamas also took 253 hostages.

A poster (above right) of Gad Haggai, 73, whose body is still being held by the terrorists, reads, “I knew Epstein personally,” a lie referring to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide while in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.

Another poster featuring Haggai’s wife, 70-year-old New York native Judih Weinstein Haggai, shows her glasses shaded in black. “I’m blind and even I can see Israel did 9/11,” reads a message covering her head.

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