Remember Lil’ Lucas Koerner, the as-a-Jew Tufts student whose idiotic shenanigans in Jerusalem (including wearing a kippa, keffiyeh, and palestinian flag) made him a fan favorite among Israel-haters everywhere?
Here’s a reminder:
Ten years later, and Lil’ Lucas is still at it. And by it I mean university and Israel-hatred.
He’s at Harvard as a second-year doctoral student in Latin American and Caribbean History. His Harvard bio reads like something that would cause Roger Waters to drink (in celebration)
He recently penned an op-ed entitled Boycott Israeli Apartheid: If Not Now, When? for the Harvard Crimson.
It is full of the usual lies and propaganda. Israel murders children, bla bla bla, world’s largest open-air prison, bla bla bla, apartheid and settler colonialism, bla bla bla. In it, he calls for Harvard to divest from Israeli companies…among other things.
Harvard must therefore divest from all Israeli and international companies profiting from Israel’s apartheid regime.
—
Harvard must not remain on the wrong side of history, like when it refused to divest from apartheid South Africa.
But divestment is not enough. Harvard is home to the Wexner Foundation, which annually awards ten scholarships through its Israel Fellowship to “outstanding public sector directors and leaders from Israel” to pursue a Master’s in Public Administration at the Kennedy School.
—
Harvard must sever ties with the Wexner Foundation, in addition to ending all research agreements and study abroad programs with Israeli universities in line with Palestinian civil society’s call for an international academic boycott.
—
Finally, Harvard must use its considerable political clout to pressure President Joe Biden’s administration to suspend all aid to Israel until it ends its occupation of all Arab lands and dismantles its illegal separation wall, guarantees equal rights for Palestinian citizens within its pre-1967 borders, and recognizes and implements Palestinian refugees’ right of return as pursuant to UN General Assembly Resolution 194.
He even literally ‘as-a-Jews’:
As a Jew whose family survived the Tsarist pogroms and lost relatives in the Nazi Holocaust, I am appalled and outraged at Israel’s effort to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their native land, which has been ongoing since its foundation in 1948.
Naturally, Koerner is also on the wrong side of history on other things, like Venezuela and Iran. Here you can see him speaking on television about Venezuela’s economic crisis, looking like a hipster frog.
It sounds like English, but I am not entirely sure.
So the verdict is in: Lil’ Lucas Koerner has not changed.
