Anti-Israel agitators deface Harvard statute day after Oct. 7 anniversary: ‘Bring the war home’

Just hours aft the passing of the one­-year day of the Oct. 7 massacre successful Israel, vandals smashed windows connected the field of Harvard and poured reddish overgarment connected the school's namesake statue successful "an enactment of solidarity with the Palestinian resistance," according to an online message. 

The online radical "Unity of Fields," which publishes defacement videos from crossed the country, posted a video of Tuesday's vandalism. The video included the caption: "Bring the warfare home." 

"In the aboriginal hours of 10/8, autonomous actors astatine Harvard smashed windows of the main administrative gathering and vandalized the John Harvard statue successful an enactment of solidarity with the Palestinian resistance," work a connection accompanying the video. "We are committed to bringing the warfare location and answering the telephone to unfastened up a caller beforehand present successful the belly of the beast." 

The Harvard University Police Department told Fox News Digital that the incidental is nether investigation. 

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The John Harvard statue was vandalized with reddish overgarment connected Oct. 8, 2024, successful an enactment of 'Palestinian resistance.' (Addison Y. Liu/The Harvard Crimson)

"It is the longstanding argumentation of the Harvard University Police Department to not remark connected unfastened investigations," a section spokesperson said. 

Unity of Fields besides published photos showing the field of UMass Amherst defaced with pro-Palestinian graffiti. 

An anonymous submission posted by the radical accused UMass Amherst of being "complicit successful genocide done its partnerships with Raytheon and different warfare profiteers." 

Graffiti connected the field of UMass Amherst targeting Raytheon.  (Submitted to Unity of Fields)

"At their engineering vocation fair, some Raytheon and General Dynamics were present. Both are weapons manufacturers that are heavy complicit successful genocide. UMass Foundation is besides invested into respective warfare profiteering companies, which means our tuition wealth goes straight to genocide," the connection read. 

The anonymous connection warned readers to expect much "autonomous actions astatine UMass Amherst." 

"We volition not remainder until warfare profiteers are gone, and Palestine is afloat liberated," the connection concluded. 

The field of UMass Amherst defaced with pro-Palestinian graffiti.  (Submitted to Unity of Fields)

A spokesperson for UMass Amherst told Fox News Digital that the assemblage "is alert of incidents that are being investigated by UMass Police." 

"Beyond that, we bash not remark connected investigations," the spokesperson said. 

It's unclear what affiliation, if any, the perpetrators had with either Harvard oregon UMass Amhest. 

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Both incidents rise the specter of renewed anti-Israel protests that swept assemblage campuses during the outpouring semester. The National Students for Justice successful Palestine (NSJP) is orchestrating a nationwide "Week of Rage" connected campuses opening connected the Oct. 7 anniversary. 

Anti-Israel protesters show successful NYC connected Oct. 5, 2024, up of the day of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. (Adam Gray for Fox News Digital)

Monday marked 1 twelvemonth since Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel, sidesplitting astir 1,200 radical and taking hundreds much hostage. Israel responded by waging a warfare against Hamas successful the Gaza Strip, wherever the warring has claimed the lives of an estimated 41,000 Palestinians and displaced astir 2 cardinal people. 

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The struggle has dispersed successful the region, with Israel waging a conflict against Hezbollah terrorists successful Lebanon, facing escalating threats from Yemen's Houthi rebels, and escalating tensions with Iran.