Overview
- The Cornell Daily Sun initially ran Karim-Aly Kassam’s op-ed with artwork showing a bloodied Star of David and an SS mark on a Palestinian figure.
- After an internal discussion, the paper removed the illustration and republished the essay without it, with editor-in-chief Julia Senzon saying the imagery could cause visceral harm because of the SS symbol.
- Kassam said he was deeply saddened the artwork was interpreted as antisemitic and emphasized that was not his intent.
- A Sun editor later wrote a personal column defending Kassam’s intent while apologizing for the decision to publish the graphic.
- Critics, including Cornell law professor William Jacobson, denounced the image as Holocaust inversion, and reports tied the episode to broader campus discrimination disputes as Cornell University declined comment.