Ackman Calls For Names Of Harvard Students Supporting Hamas
Prominent billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman requested a list of names from Harvard University. Specifically, he wants to know the members of organizations that signed a letter blaming Israel entirely for the terrorist attack it suffered from Hamas.
He said other CEOs want to know who these students are so they may avoid hiring any of the organization members.
Many of these scholars quickly backtracked from their indefensible positions when they learned of possibly being blacklisted. Actions meet consequences.
Ackman explained, “I have been asked by a number of CEOs if Harvard would release a list of the members of each of the Harvard organizations that have issued the letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous actions to Israel.”
He said the specific reason is to not “inadvertently hire any of their members.
The businessman said that if the members feel so strongly about their position against Israel, then their names should be public.
One of the executives was Jonathan Newman, CEO of the salad company Sweetgreen. He posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, “I would like to know so I know never to hire these people.”
David Duel, CEO of healthcare services company EasyHealth, posted, “Same.”
Students are now scrambling to distance themselves from the letter, and four of the 34 organizations backed off from their support. By midweek, 17 other Harvard groups signed a counter-statement along with roughly 500 faculty and staff and 3,000 others.
In it they condemned the radical letter as “completely wrong and deeply offensive.”
Another letter was signed by almost 160 faculty members. It blasted the Harvard’s administration’s tepid response to the student organization letter, charging it “can be seen as nothing less than condoning the mass murder of civilians based only on their nationality.”
Harvard President Larry Summers defended students who he said were “naive and foolish” about the letter they signed.
Posting on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Summers declared, “I yield to no one in my revulsion at the statement apparently made on behalf of 30 plus @Harvard student group[s]. But please everybody take a deep breath.”
He claimed that it is not a time to “vilify individuals.” He further criticized school administrators for not explicitly condemning Hamas and outright rejecting the student letter.
