A billboard truck circled George Washington University’s campus on Tuesday to put certain faculty members on blast after they excused Hamas’ acts of terror on Oct. 7, according to photos and video footage exclusively obtained by The Post.
The billboard displays featured remarks from a faculty-run panel for medical students last week which declared that the terrorist killers in the Gaza Strip had a “right of resistance” against Israel. The signs also blasted another professor who is under federal investigation for discriminating against Jewish students.
The truck played what sounded like circus music and showcased social media posts from professor Lara Sheehi.
The psychology professor had a civil rights complaint filed against her at the Department of Education for allegedly harassing Jewish students with antisemitic remarks and then retaliating against them when they reported her conduct to the administration.
“#LONGLIVETHERESISTANCE” one billboard read, referencing one of many social media posts Sheehi has made before and after the attack in support of Hamas, the Washington Free Beacon previously reported.
“GWU MED: ANTISEMITISM IS CONTAGIOUS” and “RESISTANCE?” the other billboard messages read, showing pictures of Israelis who were among the thousands killed, wounded or taken hostage by Hamas.
Those include the 10-month-old boy Kfir Babas who remains a captive in Gaza, and Gina Semiatich, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor who was slaughtered by Hamas jihadists at her home in Kibbutz Kissufim.
A private, anonymous donor has sponsored similar billboards calling for the firing of the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University following congressional testimony in which they failed to condemn calls for the genocide of Jews on campus, a source familiar with the effort told The Post.
More than 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians, and at least 33 Americans were killed in the surprise terror attack and 240 were kidnapped by Hamas.
A Dec. 4 panel at GWU’s medical school featured faculty members like international affairs and political science professor Michael Barnett, who said: “Israel rightly can claim self-defense, but I also want to note here that Hamas and the Palestinians also have a right of resistance.”
The discussion — titled “Understanding the Conflict in Israel and Palestine” — was co-sponsored by the School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Anti-Racism Coalition and the Institute for Middle East Studies.
Other panelists pronounced that the Israel Defense Forces were committing “genocide” and carrying out an “ethnic cleansing” against Palestinians in Gaza — but conveniently failed to mention Hamas’ maiming and raping of Jewish civilians.
“All of us have been shaken by the events of Oct. 7,” said Shira Robinson, a professor of history and international affairs. “But we all recognize that those events have a history.”
The faculty members also failed to note that Hamas, a US-designated foreign terrorist organization, is still holding more than 100 Israeli and US civilians hostage.
The panel followed an incident weeks after the attack in which students displayed anti-semitic and pro-Hamas messages such as “Glory to our martyrs” on the side of a campus library building.
“GW has repeatedly condemned Hamas and their horrific Oct, 7 terror attack on Israel,” a university spokesperson previously told The Post.
“While faculty and students at GW have the right to freely express their own views, they do not speak on behalf of the University. Most issues, including this one, are the topic of a variety of events from different perspectives, and many events and discussions do not — and cannot be expected to — reflect all sides of every issue.”
A Jewish student at the university previously told The Post that the remarks left them “astonished how a medical school and its students, who dedicate their careers to preserving life, have been silent since Oct. 7.”
“Many of my peers who are passionate about women’s health do not care about the raping, mutilation, and desecration of women’s bodies when it is Jewish women,” the student said. “My Jewish friends and I have stood with our classmates to amplify the #MeToo movement, abortion rights, and Black Lives Matter. Their silence right now is deafening.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Jewish state’s military to “destroy Hamas,” directing airstrikes against senior commanders and greenlighting a ground assault of the Gaza Strip.
Robinson in her remarks described the attacks as “an unprecedented carpet bombing campaign in the strip that for the past eight weeks” that “has deliberately targeted and continues to deliberately target high-rise residential buildings, bakeries, schools, universities, and UN shelters.”
Hamas, in past conflicts as well as the current war, has used Palestinian civilians as human shields, either by storing weapons stockpiles or conducting its operations from hospitals, schools and mosques.
The civilian death toll has outnumbered that of Hamas terrorists by a rate of two to one, a senior IDF official confirmed earlier this month, amounting to 10,000 Palestinians and 5,000 Hamas terrorists killed so far, reports show.
That ratio is “unprecedented in the modern history of urban warfare,” the spokesman also said, since the Gaza Strip has one of the world’s highest population densities.
Reps for George Washington University did not immediately respond to a request for comment.