A reporter from Mako, @racheli82, made a prank call to Yale University's president's office to highlight the cultural appropriation of Jewish culture, specifically the Hebrew in its logo. The prank, which follows a similar one made to Harvard, was lauded as 'brilliant' by users such as EitanHoch and YaariCohen. An animated video of the call was posted on Twitter. The MossadIL Twitter account humorously demanded Yale to cease and desist the cultural appropriation represented in their logo. The Jerusalem Post reported on the incident, and mattyglesias commented that this event marks Yale's best run of publicity since the premiere of The Simpsons.
These past few weeks have been Yale’s best run since The Simpsons premiered. https://t.co/knObvOfyuC
Mako reporter called Yale University’s president’s office to call out the #university for its appropriation of #Jewish culture, specifically the #Hebrew in its logo. She posted an animated video to her Twitter illustrating the phone call. https://t.co/H9EdytssR8
We demand @Yale cease and desist the cultural appropriation of Judaism in their logo! (Another masterpiece by @racheli82). https://t.co/RxNej4L4Ed
Remember the prank call to @Harvard ? This time @racheli82 called @Yale . Listen. It is brilliant. https://t.co/EHCTwJ8hE1
Ok, this is brilliant. @racheli82 called @Yale University and inquired regarding their policy on "Cultural appropriation" have a listen https://t.co/Ns3bvMKWvd
This time I called Yale University https://t.co/6mHWf7Lyp7