Law Firm Rescinds Job Offers to Three Law Students at Harvard and Columbia Over Pro-Hamas Controversy
“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”
Last week, this same thing happened to a student at NYU Law. People are clearly disgusted by what’s happening on college campuses.
Bloomberg Law reports:
Davis Polk Rescinds Three Job Offers After Israel Statements (2)
Davis Polk & Wardwell rescinded job offers to three law students at Harvard and Columbia universities after organizations they were part of made controversial statements about the Hamas attack on Israel.
“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,” the firm said in a statement viewed by Bloomberg Law.
The statement didn’t identify the students, who were leaders of groups that signed on to the Joint Statement from Palestine Solidarity Groups at Columbia University and the Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine.
A group of 31 Harvard University organizations signed on to an Oct. 9 declaration that “hold(s) the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” The Joint Statement from Palestine Solidarity Groups at Columbia University said that “The weight of responsibility for the war and casualties undeniably lies with the Israeli extremist government and other Western governments.”
Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine said in a separate statement the same day that Hamas’ actions were a “counter-offensive against their settler-colonial oppressor.”
In an email to the firm viewed by Bloomberg Law,chair and managing partner Neil Barr said that “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.”
But that it also will “remain in dialogue with two of these students to ensure that any further color being offered to us by these students is considered,” he said.
Davis Polk & Wardwell rescinded job offers to three law students at Harvard and Columbia universities after organizations they were part of made controversial statements about the Hamas attack on Israel. https://t.co/cpAt7DN7zT
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Comments
Good riddance!
I love the Shocked Pikachu face these people have when they were canceling people for years for wrongthink, and it suddenly blows up in their face.
You made these rules, now you have to live up to them.
Sucks to be you.
My first day of law school some 30+ years ago, the legal process professor told the class room of approximately 75 new students that as of that first day we were now professionals, not mere students. We were expected to behave as professionals, and we would be treated as professionals. That lesson seems to have bypassed the law students at NYU, Columbia, Harvard, et al, who fail to realize that their deeds have consequences. The naivete of undergraduates can be forgiven (even if not excused), but third year law students have no one but themselves to blame for their predicaments.
McDonald’s is hiring…no wait, that $20 min wage demand has caused them to put in ordering kiosks to cut staff. Well, WalMart…oh, they have put in self checkouts due to outrageous employee demands. Huh, sucks to drop $250,000K on a law degree only to find your now a public defender in Chicago or Baltimore. Good luck not getting shot by one of your clients.
“ But that it also will “remain in dialogue with two of these students to ensure that any further color being offered to us by these students is considered,” he said.”
How about making hiring them contingent on each providing a signed, undated letter of resignation?