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Anti-Semitic stickers were reportedly seen near the Harvard Square Hillel

Anti-Semitic stickers were reportedly seen near the Harvard Square Hillel

According to multiple reports, stickers depicting the Israeli flag with swastikas instead of the Star of David were seen in parts of Harvard Square.

The stickers were placed on the Harvard University campus and on City of Cambridge property, The Harvard Crimson reported. The text on the stickers read: “Stop funding Israeli terrorism.”

Police were notified around 2:10 a.m. Monday that a person was posting the stickers on campus and on city light poles in and around the Charles River area, WCVB-TV wrote.

“First we saw this happening on social media for a long time, and then there were calls for escalation,” Jason B. Rubenstein, executive director of Harvard Hillel, told the Crimson. “Now we see it happening physically — in a physical manifestation — just a few feet from the Hillel building.”

The appearance of the stickers comes days after “intimidating” posters were seen outside a Harvard building last week, Crimson wrote. Hillel leaders discovered that the posters critical of the war in Gaza were printed by JStreetU at Hillel co-chair Meredith Zielonka. The posters were printed with Hillel’s own money.

Rubenstein barred JStreetU and Zielonka from using the group’s funds, Crimson wrote.

Cambridge and Harvard University police are investigating the stickers, the Crimson reported.

MassLive reached out to Harvard University for more information.

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