In addition to tearing down the posters, the worker became very aggressive when confronted about his actions. It’s good that Harvard did the right thing and got rid of this person.

The Harvard Crimson reported:

Harvard Contract Worker Ordered to Leave Campus After Videotaped Tearing Down Israeli Hostage Posters

A man who was contracted by Harvard to do groundskeeping work was ordered to leave campus and was banned from returning to work for the University after he was videotaped tearing down posters of Israeli hostages from a posting area in Harvard Yard.

The video, posted to X by Jewish student organization Harvard Chabad Wednesday morning, revealed a confrontation between a man who was wearing a crimson “Harvard Campus Services” sweater and an unknown individual who filmed the encounter.

The person filming the video repeatedly asks the worker why he is removing the posters of Israeli hostages from a bulletin board outside of Thayer Hall. The video of the encounter, which lasted less than five minutes, showed the worker getting increasingly upset by the repeated questions about why he was tearing down the posters.

“It is my fucking job,” the worker told the person filming the encounter.

As the exchange grew more heated, one of the worker’s colleagues stepped between the worker seen tearing down the posters and the person filming the video.

By the end of the video, after repeated back-and-forths, the worker —who his colleague referred to as “Jackson” in the video — began yelling in the face of the person filming the video, telling him to “get the fuck out of here” and that “nobody wants to talk with you.”

Harvard spokesperson Jason A. Newton wrote in a statement Wednesday afternoon that the University “strongly condemns” the worker’s actions.

“The contract worker was directed to leave campus, and his employer has been notified that the individual may not be assigned to return to campus to perform work in the future,” Newton added.

Here’s the video. Very strong language warning:

Harvard employees caught in the act of tearing hostage posters.
On the request of our Israeli students to raise awareness of the suffering of their loved ones being held hostage in Gaza, Harvard Chabad has been sponsoring posters of their loved ones. Against university policy… pic.twitter.com/wMuNs4F2LT

— Harvard Chabad (@HarvardChabad) March 20, 2024

Featured image via Twitter video.

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