The satirical magazine faced backlash after its most recent issue doctored an image of the German-born Jewish diarist who died in the Holocaust.
Separated from the rest of their family, Anne Frank and her sister died of typhoid fever in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K. Email Bio Follow May 15 at 5:22 AM Each day seems to offer new lessons for Washington in how perilous it can be to invoke the Holocaust.
The undergraduate publication, which has launched staff from the Ivy League campus to the writing rooms of comedy shows such as “Saturday Night Live,” came under fire this week for the crack, which appeared in an issue distributed over the weekend. Among the students who took offense was a Harvard sophomore, who posted the cartoon on Facebook. When the image ran afoul of the site’s community standards and was removed, the student, Jenny Baker, turned instead to a Google Doc. She included an image of the page in question and enumerated her objections.
Baker delivered a recommendation to the staff of the Lampoon: “try to find other ways to be funny rather than sexualizing and trivializing the murder of a young girl and an entire population of people."The backlash reached beyond campus. Robert Trestan, the director of Anti-Defamation League’s Boston office, tied the “outrageous, insensitive, sexualized” image to a rising tide of anti-Semitism, saying the student-run organization had crossed a line between humor and bigotry.
It has not shied away from the national spotlight. In 2015, Lampoon members, posing as the staff of the Crimson, convinced then-candidate Donald Trump that he had earned the endorsement of the undergraduate newspaper. They smiled for a photograph with the real estate tycoon, who flashed a thumbs-up sign.
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