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The Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine was a joint statement issued on 8 October 2023 by a coalition of 34 pro-Palestinian student organizations at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in response to Hamas' "al-Aqsa Flood" surprise attack on Israel the day before, which left over 1,300 Jews - most of them civilians - murdered in the worst single-day loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust. The statement "(held) the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence," and claimed that the massacre of Jewish civilians was justified by "Israeli violence (that) has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years...from systematized land seizures to routine airstrikes, arbitrary detentions to military checkpoints, and enforce family separations to targeted killings." The statement was signed by Palestinian and Muslim student groups as well as by the Black nationalist "African American Resistance Organization" and by the "Harvard Jews for Liberation"; Amnesty International at Harvard, Harvard College Act on a Dream, the Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Student Association, the Harvard Islamic Society, and the Harvard Undergraduate Ghungroo initially supported the statement before withdrawing their support and condemning the massacre of civilians by Hamas.

The statement was highly controversial, as it was perceived to have trafficked in "victim blaming" a mere day after the Re'im music festival massacre and several other murders of Jewish elders, women, and children by Islamist terrorists. Private donors to Harvard University, as well as to the University of Pennsylvania (whose administration also initially failed to release a strong statement condemning the violence), severed ties with their alma maters, as did former Harvard president Larry Summers. Hedge fund CEO Bill Ackman and several other business leaders demanded that Harvard publicize the names of student signatories so they would know not to hire them due to their apparent anti-Semitism; on 11 October, a conservative nonprofit arranged for a truck featuring virtual billboards to drive near Harvard's campus and show the faces of the student groups' leaders, identifying them as "Harvard's Leading Antisemites." Conservative advocacy group Campus Reform responded to Ackman's calls for transparency by revealing the identities and LinkedIn profiles of the student leaders involved in issuing the statement, while the pro-Israel "Canary Mission" also published articles on the leaders behind the statement. Classical liberal commentator Bill Maher used the Harvard incident as an example for his argument of, "Don’t go to an elite college because as recent events have shown it just makes you stupid. Elite schools should no longer be called elite, just say expensive." Maher also quipped, "The same students who will tell you that 'words are violence' and 'silence is violence' were very supportive when Hamas terrorists went on a rape and murder rampage as if they were the Vikings. They knew where to point the fingers—at the murdered—and then it was off to ethics class."

On the same day as the Harvard billboard truck incident, the societies involved in the joint statement apparently deleted their pronouncement, with the Harvard Islamic Society clarifying that it did not encourage violence and instead calling for prayers for Gaza. However, the joint statement made by the Harvard students was merely the most prominent in a wave of anti-Semitic student actions that occurred across the United States and the world, with a 23 October 2023 PBS special reporting that members of Rutgers University's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine described the Hamas terrorists as "freedom fighters" and labeled their offensive "justified retaliation."

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