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Harvard needs a history lesson, according to students outraged over its 2025 yearbook ignoring the October 7, 2023 Hamas terror attack on Israel. The book instead depicts only Israel’s
aggression in Gaza, with its October 2023 entry including a photo of the famous John Harvard statue draped in a keffiyeh with a caption reading “War breaks out in Gaza.” The official Harvard
yearbook, the 520–page book aimed to capture the “Harvard experience” and described as “Harvard. Immortalized,” shocked graduating seniors when they flipped through the pages recapping
every month since their freshman year. “It’s deeply offensive,” newly minted graduate Alex Bernat, who has seen the page firsthand, told The Post. EXPLORE MORE He added he was “shocked” by
the complete whitewashing of the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust that left 1,200 murdered, thousands injured and saw 251 abducted into Gaza and held hostage – 58 of whom have yet
to be returned. “They totally mischaracterized in a very irresponsible way the beginnings of everything on October 7, the actual thing that prompted the war on Gaza.” The treasured yearbook
that’s meant to “reflect on your time in college” turned into a “completely biased representation of the events of October 2023,” blasted the Jewish grad, adding there is no excuse for
yearbook editors – a group of 20 students listed on the site – to gloss over the atrocities that precipitated the war. “They know exactly how the events of October 7 transpired … It’s such
an easy thing to get right – and the fact that they didn’t is really concerning,” the 23-year-old Chicago native said. Although school is out for summer at the embattled Ivy League
institution, it’s still under fire for being a hotbed of hate. President Donald Trump has pulled over $3 billion in funding from the university, and the White House has instructed federal
agencies to review approximately $100 million in contracts the government has with Harvard and find alternatives where possible. Last week Trump said: “Harvard is treating our country with
great disrespect, and all they’re doing is getting in deeper and deeper and deeper.” The State Department has also stopped issuing new student visas nationwide, while a new vetting process
is put in place. Harvard’s handling of Hamas’ terror attack and massacre has caused problems from the start. Hours after the atrocities, a now-infamous screed signed by 31 Harvard student
groups blamed the Jewish state, holding “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” – prompting outraged Harvard alums like hedge fund honcho Bill Ackman to call for
the entire board of Harvard University to resign. Watchdog groups have also ripped the poisoned Ivy, which saw former president Claudine Gay wither on the vine after her gutless
congressional testimony, for letting willful hate fester. “Harvard’s official yearbook description of the October 7 massacre as merely ‘war breaking out in Gaza’ is not only factually
dishonest — it’s historical revisionism. By erasing the brutal, premeditated slaughter of over 1,200 Israelis, Harvard is whitewashing terrorism and contributing to the narratives that
justify the ongoing genocide against the Jewish people,” Brooke Goldstein, Founder and Executive Director of The Lawfare Project, told The Post. “This isn’t just a failure of language — it’s
a moral failure. Harvard has become a symbol of elite radicalization. This is an American problem, not just a Jewish one.” The galling omission is tantamount to “Holocaust-like denial,”
railed Harvard Chabad, the Jewish movement that supports students on campus. Francesca Albanese, the controversial UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, who’s
been accused of spewing antisemitism, appeared at Harvard last year in an event described as “exploring how certain concepts from international law, such as “occupation,” “apartheid,” and
“genocide,” applied to the situation in and around Gaza.” “This is what they’re being taught,” Harvard Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi claimed of the one-sided exposure to students. “They’re
being told to be skeptical about what Israel says happened on October 7 and to believe everything from Hamas. “It’s an absolute disgrace.” Harvard Divinity School grad, Shabbos Kestenbaum,
who settled an antisemitism lawsuit last month against his alma mater, attacked his former school. “The murder of 45 American citizens as well as the abduction of 12 Americans on October 7th
was a horrific terrorist attack,” the 2024 grad told The Post. “Harvard students not being able to comprehend that basic fact is deeply disturbing.”