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Some questions have no right answer. Blue dress or white? Yanny or Laurel? Is an oddity on an Israeli soldier\u2019s helmet a horn from medieval anti-Semitic propaganda, or a cartoonish bump left by a spray can? Take your pick.<\/p>\n
Columbia University\u2019s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter is currently holding an annual event called \u201cIsraeli Apartheid Week.\u201d As the name implies, it is critical of Israeli policies and is meant to support the rights of the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n
However, according to a group rooting for the other team called Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at Columbia University, the event was marred<\/a> by a \u201ccheap act of portraying Jewish soldiers with physical deformities\u201d <\/em>that is \u201cdownright abhorrent and anti-Semitic and must be condemned by Columbia University.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n This referred to a picture<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n The \u2018deformity\u2019 in question is that\u2026 thing on his head. Which, according to SSI, is a horn and comes \u201cfrom the dark ages of medieval Europe when anti-Semitic propaganda depicted Jews as satanic consorts and an incarnation of absolute evil.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Anger spread on social media like a firestorm, especially after some Israeli media spotted the story.<\/p>\n Of course, others disagreed with this point of view and considered the thing to be nothing more than a cartoonish bump left by the can. Some shared visual aids to make their point.<\/p>\n \u2018Camp horn\u2019 came up with theirs.<\/p>\n There have been plenty of attempts to find rational arguments to make the case for both sides.<\/p>\n But there\u2019s also a jagged hole around the horn\/lump. Surely the army of a horn\u00e8d people would have helmets that either covered the horns or were drilled with neat holes to let the horns protrude.<\/p>\n \u2014 Bruno Maddox (@brunmad) April 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/center><\/div>\n A bump has a rounded top as the other has more of a pointed peak. Also, round bumps don’t have the level marks on it like horns are typically displayed with. There are 2 lines on it.<\/p>\n It could be either but most reasonable people, if looking at it objectively, would say a horn.<\/p>\n \u2014 Chris Jones (@Nglasob) April 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/center><\/div>\n The SJP is apparently yet to wake up to the fact that it has sparked a politically loaded version of numerous viral perception debates<\/a> and offer a public comment. But one can rest assured that this one won\u2019t be simply laid to rest regardless of what they say. Just ask<\/a> a certain US representative about her \u201call about the Benjamins\u201d tweet.<\/p>\n If you like this story, share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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