Wealthy donors pull funding from from Harvard and U Penn for failure to denounce “antisemitism”

[Anonymous]

Ron Lauder may pull his financial backing to the Lauder Center at Wharton.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/17/ron-lauder-to-re-examine-financial-support-for-upenn-over-antisemitism/

[Anonymous]

Another law firm rescinding offers to Harvard and Columbia university students

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another law firm rescinding offers to Harvard and Columbia university students

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

Free Speech, FTW!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another law firm rescinding offers to Harvard and Columbia university students

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

Free Speech, FTW!

Decency and decorum are the winners here.

More action like this coming from other BigLaw firms.

You celebrate barbarity, you pay the price.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another law firm rescinding offers to Harvard and Columbia university students

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

Free Speech, FTW!

hate speech.

[Anonymous]

I mean, only a morally obtuse monster could not state a condemnation. The Penn statements, each one progressively stronger, as it chases the dollars, have a weird tone to them.

[Anonymous]

I mean, I’m sure Human Rights Watch is hiring.

[Anonymous]

A corporate law firm. You can’t make this stuff up.

[Anonymous]

Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer announced that he and his wife are resigning from the Harvard Kennedy School's executive board because of the school president’s response to a student letter that blamed Israel for the terrorist attack on their country.

Ofer released a statement explaining that he and his wife, Batia, resigned "in protest of the shocking and insensitive response by the president of the university, who did not condemn the letter by student organizations who blamed Israel for the massacres," according to a report from the New York Post.

The decision comes after a letter, which was titled "Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine" and signed by 31 student groups, condemned Israel after the country faced a surprise attack from Hamas earlier this month.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another law firm rescinding offers to Harvard and Columbia university students

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

Free speech rights are rights actionable against state actors. For better or worse, we have an at-will employment system. Even within state anti-discrimination laws, vocalizing support for violence is not a protected class.

[Anonymous]

Wow it looks like Alissa Heinerscheid learned her lessons from Penn after all. How to alienate your customer base by doing and saying stupid things.

Wonder if Penn will take an even greater hit than Budweiser.

[Anonymous]

These firms are done.

[Anonymous]

I have major mixed feelings. I think that this just perpetuates the inappropriate politicization of universities and workplaces and chilling of speech. But at the same time, I don’t feel sorry for students and academics who have to face that it’s not OK to be openly anti-semitic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow it looks like Alissa Heinerscheid learned her lessons from Penn after all. How to alienate your customer base by doing and saying stupid things.

Wonder if Penn will take an even greater hit than Budweiser.

More room for bright kids that are unconnected. Excellent development.