Purab Seth

Overview

Purab Seth was a member of a Harvard University student group that signed a statement blaming Israel for Hamas war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, carried out on October 7, 2023.

As of April 2025, Harvard's First-Year International Program (FIP) webpage featured Seth as a FIP leader for the academic year 2024-2025. Seth’s hometown and country were listed as Indore, India.

Member of a Group Blaming Israel for Hamas War Crimes

On October 8, 2023, Harvard’s Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) released on Instagram a “Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine.”

The statement backed the war crimes, including beheadings of children, perpetrated by the terror group Hamas against Israeli civilians. It read: “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” The statement also claimed the atrocities “did not occur in a vacuum” and that “The coming days will require a firm stand against colonial retaliation.” The list of student groups that signed on to the statement was later removed following public outrage.

For more information on the complete list of Harvard students involved in signing the statement, see here.

On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation.

Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, approximately 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.

A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.

For more information on the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.

Biographical Information

Seth was a member of Harvard South Asians for Forward-Thinking Research and Advocacy (SAFAR) at the time of the PSC statement. PSC is an alternative name for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).

In October 2023, Harvard's FIP webpage featured Seth as a FIP leader for the academic year 2023-2024.

As of the same date, the website for Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs said that Seth was an undergraduate research fellow at the Weatherhead Research Cluster on Business and Government.

Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. According to the FIP webpage, Seth was from Indore, India.

SJP

SJP is a student organization engaged in anti-Israel activity on North American college and university campuses.

The first chapter of SJP was founded in 2001 at the University of California at Berkeley by Professor Hatem Bazian. Bazian has spread classic anti-Semitism, reportedly promoted religious anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group. In 2004, Bazian called for “intifada” in America.

SJP organizes anti-Israel campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks, often in collaboration with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Muslim Student Association (MSA) campus chapters.

SJP has been a major force in pushing the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on campuses. Chapters have initiated dozens of BDS resolutions in student governments, which have been proposed on or around Jewish holidays, a time when many Jewish students are off-campus.

SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, disrupted pro-Israel campus events and demonized pro-Israel campus organizations.

Chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for numerous terrorists and whitewashed terrorism.

Status:: Student
University:: Harvard

Organizations:: PSC (SJP)
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Last Modified:: 05/04/2026

Photos & Screenshots

Purab Seth, docs.google.com - Oct 8, 2023

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