College and University Monitor

Some questions have no right answer. Blue dress or white? Yanny or Laurel? Is an oddity on an Israeli soldier’s helmet a horn from medieval anti-Semitic propaganda, or a cartoonish bump left by a spray can? Take your pick.
Columbia University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter is currently holding an annual event called “Israeli Apartheid Week.” As the name implies, it is critical of Israeli policies and is meant to support the rights of the Palestinian people.

However, according to a group rooting for the other team called Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at Columbia University, the event was marred by a “cheap act of portraying Jewish soldiers with physical deformities” that is “downright abhorrent and anti-Semitic and must be condemned by Columbia University.”

This referred to a picture that was made to promote the event, showing an armed Israeli soldier pursuing a masked street artist, who throws spray-paint cans back at him as he runs away.

The ‘deformity’ in question is that… thing on his head. Which, according to SSI, is a horn and comes “from the dark ages of medieval Europe when anti-Semitic propaganda depicted Jews as satanic consorts and an incarnation of absolute evil.”

Anger spread on social media like a firestorm, especially after some Israeli media spotted the story...