Billionaire Bill Ackman Slams Harvard President Over Anti-Semitism on Campus
“Jewish students are being bullied, physically intimidated, spat on, and in several widely-disseminated videos of one such incident, physically assaulted.”
This letter is so brutal and so deserved. People at the top of the school administration must worry that this is how the school is seen.
From the letter:
November 4, 2023
Dear President Gay,
I am writing this letter to you regretfully. Never did I think I would have to write a letter to the president of my alma mater about the impact of her actions and inactions on the health and safety of its student body in order to help catalyze necessary change. For the past four weeks since the horrors of October 7th, I have been in dialogue with members of the corporation board, other alumni, as well as students and faculty sharing and comparing our concerns about the growing number of antisemitic incidents on campus, as we wait for you and the University to act. Four weeks after the barbaric terrorist acts of October 7th, I have lost confidence that you and the University will do what is required.
Last Wednesday, I spent seven hours on campus meeting with Jewish, Israeli, and non-Jewish students and faculty at the Law School, at HBS and in a 90-minute town hall in Aldrich 112 with 230 Jewish college students (coincidentally, one for each hostage held by Hamas), research staff, and faculty from the University at large, organized by Harvard Chabad. Over the course of the day, it became clear that the situation at Harvard is dire and getting worse, much worse than I had realized.
Jewish students are being bullied, physically intimidated, spat on, and in several widely-disseminated videos of one such incident, physically assaulted. Student Slack message boards are replete with antisemitic statements, memes, and images. On-campus protesters on the Widener Library steps and elsewhere shout “Intifada! Intifada! Intifada! From the River to the Sea, Palestine Shall Be Free!” as they knowingly call for violent insurrection and use eliminationist language seeking the destruction of the State of Israel and the Jewish people.
When you explained in your October 12th video address that Harvard “embraces a commitment to free expression,” you sent a clear message that the eliminationist and antisemitic statements of the protesters are permissible on campus.
There’s much more. You can read it all by clicking on the tweet:
Please see my below letter to the President of Harvard University sent today:
November 4, 2023
Dear President Gay,
I am writing this letter to you regretfully. Never did I think I would have to write a letter to the president of my alma mater about the impact of her actions…
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) November 5, 2023
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Comments
Harvard is racist against Asians in admissions and has admitted in court that it discriminates against Asians. If a university is racist in one area, is it any surprise it is racist in another? Asians and Jews are easy pickings when it comes to acting in a racist manor. DEI appears to be a major contributor in the development of the anti semitic attitude among so many on the Harvard Campus. The board needs to throw out the current crop of DEI instructors along with the upper levels of administration. Time for a complete housecleaning.
Mr Ackman — why not just walk away? Take your wealth and
1. Fund scholarships to Hillsdale
Or
2. Fund scholarships for Americans to study at universities in Israel. Or in Hungary. Or Japan
Or
3. Help fund SANE HOME-SCHOOLING co-ops for k-12 n America
Or
4. Idk you’re a bright guy use your imagination dude
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Clearly we can all agree that the American university system rose ……. and then it peaked ……. and now it’s in decline.
These things happen
Let’s move on.
Mr Ackman you can help make it happen
As my late husband, Ephraim Levi, used to say:
“Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around, encouraging young things to grow.”
(Harvard has plenty of funding; why not spread it around where it’s more likely much more likely to do some good.)
Gay and Twillie – both useless AA hires. But hey, we’re meeting our DEI quotas!
Any college or university guilty of discrimination of any sort should loose all government funding. They should also have the President and Trustees fired.