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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.
Even a poster of the youngest hostage, Kfir Bibas, who turned 1 last week, was tagged with a vile message reading, “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.
The rabbi called on the Ivy League school to “step up and do more” to protect them.
“Instead, they were confronted with vandalism, the defacement of hostage posters, and vile antisemitic conspiracy theories. This is inexcusable and intolerable,” he said.
The Post has reached out to Davis for comment.
Harvard Divinity School student Alexander “Shabbos” Kestenbaum shared images on X of how “every single Jewish hostage poster on campus has been defaced with vile antisemitism.”
“Jews are neither safe nor welcomed at Harvard,” he claimed
A spokesperson for the school said the university “strongly condemns the senseless and horrific vandalization on Harvard’s campus of posters displaying the faces of Israeli hostages.”
The defaced posters have been removed from Thayer Gate, the spokesperson told The Post.
In addition, 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 is not clear if the vandals were students.
The message on the poster for Kfir was a disturbing reference to reports that babies were beheaded during the slaughter of about 1,200 people on Oct. 7, when Hamas also took 253 hostages.
Hamas previously claimed that the ginger-haired child was killed alongside his 4-year-old brother, Ariel, and mother, Shiri, without ever offering proof.
His family still believes they’re alive.
A poster 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 awaiting trial in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.
Another poster featuring Haggai’s wife, 70-year-old New York native Judith 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.
“Google the dancing Israelis” is scribbled on a poster of Noa Argamani, the 26-year-old who became the face of the hostage crisis when video showed her being kidnapped from the Nova music festival.
The message refers to a 9/11 conspiracy theory involving five Israeli men dubbed the “dancing Israelis,” whom a New Jersey woman observed on the roof of a white van in the parking lot of her apartment building.
Police arrested the group after they were found with foreign passports and a box cutter — but they were released without being charged when it was determined that they worked for a delivery company, according to ABC News.
Among the other defaced posters at Harvard was one of Romi Gonen, a 23-year-old woman who also was abducted from the music fest.
“Sure, Jan,” is scrawled on her image, a phrase from “The Brady Bunch” that has evolved into a dismissive meme suggesting that someone is uttering a falsehood.
Kestenbaum is one of six Jewish Harvard students who is suing the Ivy League school for discrimination over its “unwillingness … to intervene and protect us” amid rampant antisemitism following the Oct. 7 attack.
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The student, the only one named in the federal discrimination lawsuit, has told The Post about how he was confronted one day on his way to class by anti-Israel demonstrators calling to “globally expand the intifada.”
The intifada refers to Palestinian uprisings, specifically those from 1987 to 1993 and 2000 to about 2005, which left thousands dead.
According to the lawsuit, Harvard has allowed students and faculty accused of engaging in antisemitic acts to remain on campus — and once even plied anti-Israel demonstrators “with burritos and candy.”
Kestenbaum has said Jewish students feared returning to campus for the spring semester because nothing has changed at the university.
The Post has reached out to Harvard for comment.
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