UPenn Donor Who Cut Ties With School Now Redirecting Millions to Israeli Universities
“He said it’s naive to believe that elite U.S. universities are ‘reformable.'”
David Magerman, a wealthy alum of the University of Pennsylvania, used to be a donor but stopped giving based on the anti-Israel protests that erupted on campus after October 7th of last year.
Now he is giving his money to schools in Israel.
FOX News reports:
UPenn donor who cut ties with alma mater redirects millions to Israeli universities instead: ‘Unreformable’
After halting donations to his alma mater last year, a former University of Pennsylvania donor has redirected $5 million to Israeli universities instead, citing the Ivy League institution’s refusal to address antisemitism on campus.
David Magerman, a venture capitalist and philanthropist, has reallocated millions in donations to universities in Israel after witnessing the anti-Israel protests and antisemitism that has permeated U.S. college campuses in the months following the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, he told Fox News Digital.
Magerman said he will give $1 million grants to five institutions of higher learning across Israel, including Tel Aviv University, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Bar-Ilan University and Jerusalem College of Technology…
“My plan is to redirect my philanthropic efforts going forward largely to Israel,” he told Fox News Digital. “I don’t see much value generated by giving to American universities. I think that liberal colleges in America are flawed institutions that are doing a poor job of preparing students for the real world.”
Asked what his message is to other prominent Jewish donors still contributing to Ivy League schools, Magerman said pointedly, “Stop.” He said it’s naive to believe that elite U.S. universities are “reformable.”
This has been building for months. Magerman talked about it on FOX News just weeks after the October 7th attacks.
We’re not talking about a hundred-dollar donation to the annual fund here. Serious money is involved.
The Jewish News Syndicate reports:
Philanthropist to fund immersive STEM programs at Tel Aviv University
Via the Tzemach David Foundation, philanthropist David Magerman has made a $1,000,000 five-year investment in Tel Aviv University. The new funding will initially support a program for non-Hebrew-speaking students to learn academic Hebrew and integrate into STEM degree programs.
Magerman, a data scientist and venture capitalist, publicly pulled his donations from the University of Pennsylvania over its handling of campus-wide antisemitism last year. He has subsequently pledged support to five Israeli universities to help English-speaking students immerse themselves into Israeli society and the business ecosystem.
“I am pleased to be partnering with TAU and to be able to provide more choices for students to study in Israel. I hope that by redirecting my gift to Israeli institutions and education I will be a catalyst for others to do the same,” said Magerman. “I am very much looking forward to funding programs that will enable students to learn Hebrew and better integrate into Israeli society.”
This is what UPenn gave up in order to try to placate their campus protesters.
It’s insanity.
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“…citing the Ivy League institution’s refusal to address antisemitism on campus.”
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
The only logical conclusion one can make is that those who do not speak up in the face of anti-semitism is that they are allying themselves with Judaism’s foes, in this case (radical) islam.
Good on Magerman for showing some backbone and sticking to his principles.
Good for him!
hopefully more follow his lead …
and also parents decide not to enroll their child into Ivy League ,….
now id we could just get the gop to do the same with the union run into the ground public schools
But, but… We already have a federal department to oversee education. Aren’t they already doing a fabulous job and making sure that our children are being educated to the best best possible levels?
Utter insanity
Do the universities care? I don’t think they do. Their leftest ideology functions as a kind of secular religion which trumps even money. Look at Oberlin and the Gibson bakery lawsuit. Oberlin could have settled for a fraction of what it ultimately cost. Now are Israeli universities better? They are also left. Very very left. Are they Anti-Semitic? Even that would not surprise me. I have read some really shocking stuff about academia in Israel. Magerman had better be careful and investigate who he donates to carefully.
At the beginning Oberlin could have settled with the Gibsons for nothing but a public apology. That’s all the Gibsons demanded. But they refused, and it ended costing them a fortune, which (last I heard) their insurer was refusing to cover.
One would have to see the insurance contract, but I think the insurer has a good case for not paying. Oberlin dragged out the case with repeated and frivolous motions and appeals jacking up the costs. BTW zero qualifies as a number. This was not always so. The Aztecs had a positional number system using base 20. While they had a placeholder, they did not regard it as an actual number. The (Asian) Indians were the first to conceptualize “nothing” as a number, not the Arabs. Nasa also got confused regarding zero as a kind of missing data, leaving it off the O-ring data plot.
Zero is indeed a number, but it is not a fraction of anything.
I’m going to just point out that at Penn they are calling for death of Jews
No Israeli university campus has done that
So there is a difference between leftism at Penn and leftism in Israel
Yes it has happened on Israeli university campuses as well. Not as often, only because Israel has no freedom of speech, so in principle they can get arrested for saying such things. But they occasionally say them anyway, and biased authorities don’t arrest them, so they get bolder and say them again.
Oh yes big difference. But they still are not deserving of donations. Moreover it was Penn students, not the University staff or administration. An instructor at the University of Kansas advocated shooting men who refuse to vote for Harrris. That’s how insane academia is these days.
Unfortunately most Israeli universities are hardly better than the USA ones. Before giving $1M to TAU he should have checked it out; its faculty is solidly leftist and anti-zionist.
BIU and JCT are a lot better. I don’t know about the Technion, but I would imagine it has a large leftist presence, even if it’s not as bad as TAU. The article says there’s a fifth recipient but doesn’t name it.
Just spitballing here: What if every American Jew took a year off from attending every American college — financially.
They would just fill it in with the money they get from all those Asian students. Oh, wait…
תודה
“Toe-DAH”
Thank you
Mr Magerman
Seems to me — If Penn doesn’t care about losing millions, then it could only be because they are receiving replacement $$$$ from Qatar et al.
Near as I can tell , what this man has done is one of the most kind, decent things anybody has done in the past year
Only fools give substantial sums to large institutions. There is zero respect given to the donor’s wishes and seeking legal remedy for thwarted use of funds is a bad joke. The best that can be done is to establish a private foundation staffed entirely by volunteer, loyal family members. The foundation should seek out small local charities, giving each a modest amount, to be used to achieve concrete, measurable, attainable and productive results.
“My husband Ephraim Levi used to say money, you’ll pardon the expression , is like manure. You have to spread it around a bit in order for it to do any good.”
Dolly Levi