Some Are Holding The Anti-Semites Responsible

[Kathianne]

Need more of this. WSJ comments on their editorial board column regarding businesses questioning applicants on various social issues, including discrimination against Jews, is hot topic, highly in favor of businesses, against snowflakes.

Yes, it should include any topics a business considers important, the results are more likely to lead to a good relationship in the future, job offer or not.

https://instapundit.com/611552/


OCTOBER 15, 2023EVEN THE REPUBLICAN SQUISHES ARE BAILING ON THEM: Huntsman family, longtime Penn supporters, will halt donations to ‘unrecognizable’ University. (https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/10/penn-jon-huntsman-jr-wharton-halts-donations-magill) “In an email to Magill obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian, Huntsman — a former University trustee, governor of Utah, and United States ambassador — said that the Huntsman Foundation will ‘close its checkbook’ on future donations to Penn. Huntsman, whose family has donated tens of millions to Penn over the course of three generations, wrote that the University had become ‘almost unrecognizable’ due to administrators’ response to antisemitism.”


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[Kathianne]

https://nypost.com/2023/10/15/pro-hamas-protests-show-higher-education-has-crossed-the-line/


Pro-Hamas protests show how higher education has finally crossed the lineBy Glenn H. Reynolds
Published Oct. 15, 2023, 3:58 p.m. ET


Jewish students in tears at Palestinian ‘resistance’ rally at University of Washington
Students’ anti-Israel screeds: Letters to the Editor — Oct. 13, 2023


Higher education may have finally crossed the line.


With the horrific massacre, rapes and infant murders and kidnappings Hamas proudly perpetrated in Israel, much of the American academic community, especially at elite universities, sided with . . . Hamas.


It is not playing well.


Harvard has been the most talked-about example, because, well, it’s Harvard.


Dozens of Harvard student groups released a remarkably callous statement saying Israel’s government is “entirely responsible” for Hamas’ violence.


And Harvard’s President Claudine Gay released an initial statement so ham-handed that she spent the rest of the week trying to row it back.


The Harvard students have since deleted their statement, though it still lives on the Internet, of course.


They deleted it because many major firms announced they won’t hire anyone on the list. Some have even asked for membership lists of the student organizations involved so they can make sure not to hire any students who belong.


A group called Accuracy in Media has been sending billboard trucks around Harvard Square naming the students involved, which some have called “doxing,” though publicly naming the public authors of a public statement hardly seems to rise to that level.


Winston & Strawn, a top law firm where Democratic Vice President Walter Mondale was once a partner, rescinded a job offer for an NYU law student who issued a pro-Hamas proclamation.


This was followed by Harvard’s Kennedy School losing billionaire philanthropist Idan Ofer and his wife Batia from its board.


“Unfortunately, our faith in the University’s leadership has been broken and we cannot in good faith continue to support Harvard and its committees,” said the couple, worth $20 billion.


When Accuracy in Media’s “doxxing truck” took to campus on Thursday, someone lashed out by crossing out HarvardHatesJews.com in spray paint. The site leads to a forum to send an email to Harvard’s board of trustees.
Adam Guillette/ Accuracy in Media


You have to be a very big donor to be on Harvard’s board; to have two seats you have to be bigger still.


Billionaire alumnus Bill Ackman, a hedge-fund founder, slammed Harvard too and was joined by a number of his fellow CEOs.


The message: Harvard is no longer morally worthy of our money, and we don’t want to hire its students.


The major law firms, hedge funds and Wall Street houses have had enough of woke students.


Business Insider reports one hedge-fund founder trashes applicants as a “bad cultural fit” when he encounters résumés listing woke activities.


And it’s not just Harvard: Ackman also called out another Ivy League institution, the University of Pennsylvania.


And at the University of Michigan, a business professor smirkingly posed for photos as he tore down posters with names and photos of people Hamas took hostage, while a Cornell diversity and inclusion officer came under fire for social-media posts celebrating the Hamas attack as “resistance.”


Similar events took place at the University of Virginia, Stanford, George Washington University, Swarthmore and a host of other elite schools.


Harvard students scramble to take back support for letter attacking Israel as some CEOs look to blacklist them
Sen. Marco Rubio summed up the objections: “For decades cowardly college administrators have enabled our universities to become nests of Anti-American/Anti-Western activism. This week student groups at our most ‘elite’ universities signed their names to proclamations siding with savages who murdered & mutilated babies and raped & desecrated the bodies of dead women. And across America college students” with “federal taxpayer subsidized” loans “celebrated the murder of Jews.”


Famed historian Victor Davis Hanson observed: “Americans knew higher education practiced racist admission policies. It has long promoted racially segregated dorms and graduations. And de facto it has destroyed the First Amendment. But the overt support for Hamas killers by the diversity, equity, and inclusion crowd on a lot of campuses exposes to Americans the real moral and intellectual rot in higher education.”

It’s almost amusing to see the shocked reaction of elite university students and administrators to the notion that people might object to their statements.


In their insular worlds, endorsing murder, rape and torture isn’t objectionable so long as the perpetrators are deemed “oppressed.” It turns out others disagree.


There may be a sea change in attitudes.


We’ve long known higher education breeds a lot of silly — and sometimes dangerous — ideas.

We know its admissions policies are racist, especially against Asians.

(“The left hates Asians,” Elon Musk tweeted in response to a story about an Asian applicant with near-perfect scores who was rejected by all the top schools to which he applied.)

But this is too much.

[Kathianne]

More:

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/corporations/harvard-letter-israel-columbia-ivy-davis-polk-law-firm-student-rcna120881


Top law firm rescinds job offers to Ivy League students who signed Israel lettersThe law firm Davis Polk said in an internal email to staff members that the students’ statements don’t represent the firm’s values.
Oct. 17, 2023, 2:13 PM MST
By Kat Tenbarge


Top U.S. law firm Davis Polk announced in an internal email that it had rescinded letters of employment for three law students at Harvard and Columbia universities who signed on to organizational statements about Israel, one of the latest responses to open letters from university groups about the Israel-Hamas conflict that have roiled university donors, employers, alumni and students.


“These statements are simply contrary to our firm’s values and we thus concluded that rescinding these offers was appropriate in upholding our responsibility to provide a safe and inclusive work environment for all Davis Polk employees,” said the email, signed by Neil Barr.


Small-business lawyer Joseph Gerstel posted a screenshot of the email Tuesday on LinkedIn. A Davis Polk representative confirmed it as authentic.


Barr went on to write, “At this time, we remain in dialogue with two of these students to ensure that any further color being offered to us by these students is considered.”


A representative of Davis Polk pointed to a statement that was included in the email: “The views expressed in certain of the statements signed by law school student organizations in recent days are in direct contravention of our firm’s value system. For this reason and to ensure we continue to maintain a supportive and inclusive work environment, the student leaders responsible for signing on to these statements are no longer welcome in our firm; and their offers of employment have thus been rescinded.”


The representative did not immediately respond to a question about how the firm identified the students as having signed the statements.


The identities of the students were not revealed in the email, which did not specify which statements the students signed. A series of public statements supporting Palestinians and blaming Israel for the recent Israel-Hamas conflict has created a firestorm on college campuses and in corporate America since last week.


On Oct. 10, The Harvard Crimson, one of the university’s student-run news publications, reported that more than 30 Harvard student groups signed on to a letter that said they held Israel “entirely responsible” for “all unfolding violence” in the conflict, which came after a surprise Hamas attack on Israel killed over 1,300 people. Since the letter was published, numerous CEOs, business leaders and a federal judge have responded by cutting ties with the university, calling for the identifications of the signers or saying they would not hire the signers.


Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Neman posted on X that he would “like to know” which students signed the Harvard statement “so I know never to hire these people.”


“Same,” EasyHealth CEO David Duel wrote on X, replying to Neman.




FabFitFun CEO Michael Broukhim echoed them, and in a post on X he wrote, “Discriminating against terrorist supporters is the most comically easy decision I’ll ever have to make as a CEO.”


Judge Matthew Solomson of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims also reportedly made a statement on LinkedIn that he would not let any of the students who signed on to the statements clerk for him.


Prominent donors have also cut ties with Harvard over the statement, including the Wexner Foundation — co-founded by Leslie Wexner, the former CEO of Victoria’s Secret.


The Harvard Crimson reported last week that at least four online websites have revealed the identities and personal information of students in groups that signed the statement. The Harvard student group that issued the statement has removed the list of organizations that signed on to it.


Harvard President Claudine Gay pushed back against the students’ statement, writing in her own statement to the Crimson on Oct. 10 that “no student group — not even 30 student groups — speaks for Harvard University or its leadership.”


Student groups at other Ivy League universities, including Columbia University, issued similar joint statements in support of Palestinians.


A week previously, another prominent New York City law firm, Winston & Strawn, announced it had rescinded a former summer associate’s letter of employment over “inflammatory comments” that were distributed to the NYU Student Bar Association.

[Gunny]

Been asking/wondering for years why Jews support the Dems and some of the people they do. doesn't make sense.

[SassyLady]

Been asking/wondering for years why Jews support the Dems and some of the people they do. doesn't make sense.

Nothing makes sense these days.

[Gunny]

More:

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/corporations/harvard-letter-israel-columbia-ivy-davis-polk-law-firm-student-rcna120881I'm really hoping (probably in vain, as usual) this is one of those eye-opening, wait a minute moments where some people the Dems have been using for decades, if not more, ask themselves WTF?

Jews, labor union members, ethnic minorities, et al. All have been and are still being played. How many millions of broken promises does it take?

WHO has come out against Israel/Jews? Not counting the isolationists who just think the World isn't our business, nothing personal:rolleyes: The same idiots on the left that come out against anything normal, right and/or good, and Nazis.

[Kathianne]

More than a couple:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/university-pennsylvania-grapples-donor-crisis-after-palestine-writes-event-causes-uproar

[Kathianne]

More:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/business/harvard-upenn-donors-israel/index.html


Harvard and UPenn donors are furious. It may have a financial domino effectNathaniel Meyersohn
Updated 11:25 AM EDT, Thu October 19, 2023




Influential donors to Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania say they will cut their ties to the schools in protest of college administrators’ response to alleged anti-Israel speech and antisemitism on campuses in the wake of Hamas’ terror attacks.


Major donors pulling out won’t inflict significant financial damage on wealthy Ivy League institutions with huge endowments like Harvard and UPenn in the short term, but it could hurt these schools over the long run.


“The impact is less likely to be immediate as potentially longer term on gifts or donations that may not have been in the works or would come to fruition for years,” said Lee Gardner, a writer at the Chronicle of Higher Education who covers higher education finance.


Philanthropy makes up 45% of revenue at Harvard.
Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Big donors cutting ties could also convince smaller donors to end their contributions, hurt alumni relations, impact college admissions and put pressure on the president or members of the board of trustees, said Sara Harberson, the founder of Application Nation, a private college counseling group, and former associate dean of admissions at UPenn.


“The impact will be felt in other areas,” she said.


Smaller private and state flagship schools could be more exposed to financial repercussions if donor backlash spreads from Ivy League universities to smaller schools.


“Ivy League universities have the relative luxury of being enormously wealthy,” Gardner said. “They have a lot more financial insulation from the impact of some donors getting upset.


Philanthropy becoming more important
Philanthropy is a key part of college funding in the United States. And it has grown in recent years.


“Philanthropic funding of US colleges and universities is at a high point,” researchers at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy found in a 2020 study. “Public and private fundraising powerhouses are fielding campaigns with billion-dollar goals at once-impossible levels — and they are achieving their goals.”


Educational institutions are second only to religious institutions as the largest recipient of donations in the United States, the researchers found. More gifts of $1 million or greater went to higher education than any other purpose between 2000 and 2012.


When universities pursue major fundraising campaigns, a large share of the money comes from bigger donors.


Donors often give for specific purposes — facilities, faculty research, technology on campus, athletics, scholarships and financial aid for low-income students.


“There is a premium placed on developing and cultivating donor relationships,” Gardner said. “Donor relationships are very, very important for colleges of all types.”


Philanthropy is the single largest contributor to revenue at Harvard, accounting for 45% of the university’s $5.8 billion in income last year. Philanthropic gifts account for 9% of the university’s operating budget last year and 36% of its $51 billion endowment amassed over decades.


“Revenue generated each year from our education program and research endeavors is not sufficient to fund operations,” Harvard said in its 2022 fiscal year report. Harvard “relies on philanthropy to fill in the gap.”


At UPenn, philanthropic gifts accounted for 1.5% of the university’s $14.4 billion in revenue last year. The majority of UPenn’s income came from its hospital network.


Long-simmering tensions
Several mega-donors supportive of Israel and Jewish causes have cut ties to Harvard, UPenn and other universities in protest of administrators’ responses to the attacks in Israel and anti-Israel statements by student groups and professors.


The donor backlash so far has included a nonprofit founded by former Victoria’s Secret billionaire Leslie Wexner and his wife Abigail. The Wexner Foundation said it’s breaking off ties with Harvard University, alleging the school has been “tiptoeing” over Hamas’ attacks.


“We are stunned and sickened by the dismal failure of Harvard’s leadership to take a clear and unequivocal stand against the barbaric murders of innocent Israeli civilians,” the Wexner Foundation’s leaders said.


At Harvard, a coalition of student groups released an anti-Israel statement after the attacks on October 7. That letter blamed solely Israel for the deadly attacks by Hamas, although a spokesperson for the group later wrote in a statement that the group “staunchly opposes violence against civilians — Palestinian, Israeli, or other.”


The letter set off a firestorm of criticism, doxxing of students, and prompted some student groups to withdraw their endorsements of the letter. (Some students said they had not seen the statement until after it was released.)

It was not until three days after the student group’s letter was first posted that Harvard addressed the matter directly. Harvard President Claudine Gay condemned “the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas” as “abhorrent” and said that the student groups didn’t speak for the institution.


Some of these donor revolts are a boiling over of long-simmering frustrations some right-wing donors have had toward colleges’ handling of antisemitism and anti-Israel protests from left-wing students stretching back years.


For example, beyond Harvard’s response to the terror attacks and anti-Israel letter, the Wexner Foundation in its own letter cited a broader problem where “tolerance for diverse perspectives has slowly but perceptibly narrowed over the years.”


That feeling was amplified by recent events, the letter said, including the events impact on visiting fellows from Israel. “Many of our Israel Fellows no longer feel marginalized at [Harvard]. They feel abandoned,” the Wexner Foundation said.


Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS), a movement that promotes boycotts and other economic sanctions against Israel for its occupation of Palestinian territories, has also gained strength on college campuses in recent years.


Lawrence Summers, the former president of Harvard and US Treasury Secretary, has criticized the “morally unconscionable” student statement and Harvard leaders’ response.


But he said that financial threats from donors were not the right solution to influencing universities’ positions on these issues.


“I believe the adjustments from universities should come from their conscience and conversations within their communities, not in response to financial pressure,” Summers told CNN Tuesday.


Backlash at UPenn
At UPenn, former US Ambassador Jon Huntsman blasted the university’s alleged “silence” to the attacks and promised to halt his family’s donations to the university.


Wall Street CEO Marc Rowan called for the leaders of the university to resign and donors to close their checkbooks. Billionare Ronald Lauder, a powerful financial backer of the university, threatened to cut off donations if the school doesn’t do more to fight antisemitism.


These donors were also critical of the university’s position on a multi-day event called the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, which took place on the UPenn campus last month.

The festival featured more than 100 Palestinian writers, filmmakers, and artists, including several that UPenn’s administration acknowledged had a history of antisemitic comments.

Organizers of the Palestine Writes festival denied that it embraced antisemitism, according to UPenn student newspaper The Daily Pennsylvanian.


In this May 20, 2020 photo, Former U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman Jr. looks on during a debate in Salt Lake City.
UPenn in crisis over antisemitism allegations: Jon Huntsman is the latest donor to stop giving, and a board member resigns
Susan Abulhawa, executive director of the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, told CNN the festival was meant to celebrate Palestinian culture and literature and talk about “our predicament” and “resistance.”


UPenn leaders issued a statement ahead of the festival condemning antisemitism broadly, though not the festival specifically.


“We unequivocally — and emphatically — condemn antisemitism as antithetical to our institutional values,” the university said before the event. “As a university, we also fiercely support the free exchange of ideas as central to our educational mission. This includes the expression of views that are controversial and even those that are incompatible with our institutional values.”


UPenn President Liz Magill conceded over the weekend that the response to the Palestine Writes Literature Festival was inadequate.


“While we did communicate, we should have moved faster to share our position strongly and more broadly with the UPenn community,” Magill said in a statement Sunday.


She said she knows how “painful the presence of these speakers” on campus was for the Jewish community, especially during the holiest time of the Jewish year. “The University did not, and emphatically does not, endorse these speakers or their views,” Magill said.

[Kathianne]

More, and I am very sorry to read about Dave Chappelle joining these folks, pays your money, takes your chances:

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/10/22/tech-ceo-resigns-after-accusing-israel-of-war-crimes-n586754


Tech CEO Resigns After Accusing Israel of War CrimesJAZZ SHAW 10:01 AM on October 22, 2023
Tech CEO Resigns After Accusing Israel of War Crimes
Paul Sakuma


If you’re not familiar with Web Summit, it’s one of the largest annual tech sector conventions in the world. Next month, it will be held in Lisbon, Spain. But this year’s shindig will reportedly be taking place without the CEO who organizes the event. Paddy Cosgrave abruptly resigned from his role yesterday, but not because of any sort of organizational failure on his part. Mr. Cosgrave made the decision last week to take to social media and accuse Israel of “war crimes” in their response to the invasion by Hamas. The backlash came quickly, and Cosgrave opted to depart and seek out other opportunities. And he’s not the only one who has begun paying a professional price for their perceived support of Hamas and terrorism. (ABC News)


Paddy Cosgrave, the chief executive officer of a prominent European tech conference called Web Summit, resigned from his role on Saturday amid backlash for his public statements that suggested Israel was committing war crimes.


A spokesperson for Web Summit, which organizes one of the world’s largest tech conferences every year, said in an e-mailed statement sent to The Associated Press that it will appoint a new CEO, and the conference will go ahead next month in Lisbon as planned.


Cosgrave, the Irish entrepreneur who is also founder of Web Summit, said in a statement Saturday that his personal comments “have become a distraction from the event, and our team, our sponsors, our startups and the people who attend.”


The pushback had grown rapidly over the first week following Cosgrave’s initial commentary on the Gaza-Israeli war. Some of the biggest names in the tech sector including Intel, Meta and Google pulled out from participating in a period of days. It was obvious that they weren’t opposed to the idea of the summit itself since they had all participated previously. It was Cosgrave’s participation they were boycotting. So rather than see the entire event implode, he decided to issue an apology and bow out.


But what was he apologizing for? On the 13th of October, he took to Twitter and claimed to be “shocked” at the responses from so many countries and companies that were taking Israel’s side. He pointed out his own government in Ireland approvingly for being the exception and remaining “neutral.” He wrote, “War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are.”


He attempted to clean up the mess on the 15th, tweeting that the actions of Hamas were “outrageous and disgusting.” But he couldn’t restrain himself and added a caveat saying that Israel has the right to defend itself, but not “to break international law.” That clearly wasn’t enough and the backlash against Web Summit continued.


Like anyone else, Mr. Cosgrave is entitled to his opinions. But the world also has the right to respond when such a high-profile figure elects to speak out. And if you can manage to be “shocked” by people supporting Israel while not immediately expressing more shock and outrage at the actions of the Hamas terrorists in Israel, I really have to question your priorities at a minimum.


At this point, the argument is largely hypothetical since Cosgrave is out the door. Others have been forced to join him. And speaking of “out the door,” a large number of patrons at a comedy club in Boston walked out on Dave Chappelle this week. Instead of telling his usual jokes and stories, the comic opted to begin criticizing the United States government over its support of Israel. And he too invoked the words “war crimes” when describing Israel’s response. You might be sensing a theme here. The people around America who are waiving Palestinian flags and hoisting signs supporting Hamas or Palestine draw disproportionate amounts of earned media, but they are a small minority of the nation. Most people support Israel and decry terrorism. And only a monster could offer support to those who murder, rape, kidnap and savage innocent civilians. Maybe just go back to trying to be funny, Dave. It’s probably healthier for your career.

[SassyLady]

More, and I am very sorry to read about Dave Chappelle joining these folks, pays your money, takes your chances:

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/10/22/tech-ceo-resigns-after-accusing-israel-of-war-crimes-n586754

Yep ..
Done with Chapelle. So many people I used to enjoy watching are in the ditch back down the road from my attention.