Wealthy Americans are angry at anti-Israel students at American universities Politics news

Wealthy Americans went out of their way when several student associations denounced the prestigious American university Harvard The Israeli regime’s responsibility for the attacks launched by the Islamic Resistance (agitation) on October 7, blaming the State of Israel, raising controversy over the issue of the academic influence of these supposedly disinterested donors and students who defend themselves in the name of freedom of expression.

This is how Le Monde newspaper summarized – a report written by Arno Le Parmentier – which initially reported what 34 student associations on campus wrote in a statement saying: “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime fully responsible for all acts of violence that occur.”

The statement added, “The coming days will require a firm stance against reprisals. We call on the Harvard community to take action to end the ongoing extermination of Palestinians.”

Billionaire Kenneth Griffin, founder of the hedge fund, raised his phone to call on the administration of the famous University of Massachusetts to intensify its efforts to defend Israel. This man – who donated $500 million to Harvard University – described the student unions’ message as “unforgivable.”

Griffin was not the only person, as the writer says, as the head of the Pershing Square hedge fund and Bill Ackman requested a list of members of the associations that signed the petition.

He tweeted, “A number of CEOs are waiting for Harvard to publish a list of the names of the members of each of those organizations that published the statement attributing full responsibility for Hamas’ heinous actions to Israel, so that none of us inadvertently hire one of them.”

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Indeed, some have taken action, such as the famous law firm Davis Polk, which canceled job offers for three students from Harvard and Columbia University in New York.

“The views expressed in some of the statements are in direct conflict with our value system. To ensure a supportive and inclusive work environment, student leaders who signed these declarations are no longer welcome,” she said.

Former Harvard President Larry Summers said, “In nearly 50 years of belonging to Harvard, I have never felt so disappointed and so afraid as I feel today,” but he ultimately expressed some sympathy for the students, saying that Ackman “gone… Away” in demanding a McCarthy-type blacklist.

His colleague, economist Jason Foreman, said that “two evils do not make a right,” and he believed that publishing student lists was wrong.

However, former Victoria’s Secret President Leslie Wexner decided to sever his ties with Harvard University, and World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder threatened to cut off donations to the University of Pennsylvania after he criticized its hosting of a Palestinian writers’ festival at which anti-Semitic statements were allegedly made, the former US ambassador to China’s Jon Huntsman said he would “close his checkbook.”

Some tried to defend the students by saying, “Billionaires enraged by anti-Semitism are trying to ban free speech on campus,” as stated in the title of an article in the Los Angeles Times, which recalled the dismal past of some of these wealthy people, linking Leslie Wexner to the American businessman famous for harassing minors, Jeffrey Epstein.