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Jewish billionaire quits Columbia Business School board over Jewish student safety

2023-11-09

[IsraelTimes] Henry Swieca’s resignation comes amid protests by other supporters of elite universities in response to schools’ handling of campus protests in wake of Israel-Hamar war

A Jewish billionaire investor and philanthropist quit the board of Columbia Business School, saying the campus had become unsafe for Jews since the launch of the Israel-Hamas
Hamas

...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
war.

"With blatantly anti-Jewish student groups and professors allowed to operate with complete impunity, it sends a clear and distressing message that Jews are not just unwelcome, but also unsafe on campus," Henry Swieca said in an October 30 letter obtained Tuesday by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "My resignation is an expression of my deep concern for the direction in which the university is heading."

The Board of Overseers is the school’s main fundraising arm.

Swieca, 66, is the founder in 2010 of Talpion Fund Management and the cofounder of Highbridge Capital Management, which was acquired by J.P. Morgan Chase in 2008. The child of Holocaust survivors, he has been a member of the business school’s Board of Overseers since 2014. Forbes lists his worth as $1.9 billion.

His resignation, which he did not announce publicly, comes amid a flurry of protests by Jewish supporters of elite universities in response to the schools’ handling of the Israel-Hamas war following October 7, when Hamas launched a shock onslaught, killing some 1,400 people and injuring thousands — mostly civilians — and taking at least 240 men, women and kiddies to Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
as hostages.

Prominent supporters of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania have announced that they will or might no longer support their alma maters because of the presidents’ response to the war, and the private equity CEO Marc Rowan is reportedly trying to get others in the finance field to withhold donations over the issue.

In his letter, Swieca refers to a chant that has proliferated in anti-Israel protests since the launch of the war, "From the river to the sea," which is widely understood by its critics to call for a Paleostinian state that supersedes Israel.

"Statements from the university are meaningless when pro-Hamas students march on campus calling for the complete destruction of Israel," he said. Defenders of the phrase say it has evolved since it was coined in the 1960s, when it represented longings for Israel’s removal, to a call for a binational state.

The letter did not specify incidents. The Columbia campus has long been a hotbed of pro-Paleostinian activism, and student groups there called immediately after the attack for the school to cut ties with a program in Tel Aviv. On October 16, a 19-year-old allegedly assaulted a Columbia student who was putting up posters on campuses featuring hostages taken by Hamas during its attack. The campus was also briefly closed to the public because of unrest.

On October 30, the day Swieca dated his letter, Jewish students at the New York City university held a presser demanding more robust action to protect Jews. They noted that the university had not mentioned Hamas in its statements about the war.

The Jewish students cited as incidents of antisemitism the discovery of a swastika painted in a bathroom and listed other allegations, including that pro-Paleostinian students carried signs saying "resistance is not terrorism" during an on-campus walkout and that, at Columbia’s law school, a student said "F— the Jews" to a visibly Jewish student. They also said Jews were targeted with antisemitic tropes in group chats and demanded that Columbia specifically condemn Hamas which it had not done until then.

Talpion’s website says Swieca is the child of Holocaust survivors and grew up in the Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City. It lists a number of philanthropies it backs, including the American Israel Education Fund, an arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and Meor, a Jewish heritage study program. He runs a grant program that pays out $10,000 for programs that advance Jewish education and outreach.

According to the Washington Post, Swieca also funded the expansion of an Israeli organization that aims to rebuild the ancient Jewish Temple in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount, a holy site for Moslems, an ambition that is widely understood as anti-Moslem.

Talpion’s website says that "the name of the company derives from the Biblical word ’Talpiot’, meaning a castle’s turret, and is also the name of a highly elite intelligence unit of the IDF."

Posted by:trailing wife

#4 Interesting about the Wexner Foundation, given this headline from the beginning of September:

2023-09-01 Ben-Gvir bans Israel Police, firefighters from Harvard Wexner fellowship

Posted by: trailing wife 2023-11-09 22:43

#3 Ditto at Harvard University in Cambridge Mass last month as well. Sooner or later, these colleges will have to pick a side when it comes to these protesters, or staff sympathetic to the horrific killings of innocent Israeli citizens. Only time will tell, if these colleges come to heel or not, and put a stop to this crap.

The doxing of the protesters in Cambridge following their protests was interesting. I remember Occupy Wall Street, when the protesters did this to police officers, and others they didn't like. One reaps what they sow. Some companies and firms have been asking for the identities of these protestors when it comes to future employment.

https://fortune.com/2023/10/16/wexner-foundation-harvard-donor-israel-hamas/

Posted by: Delphi 2023-11-09 17:49

#2 A better tactic would be for these rich board members to go back to their first donation to the school and loudly demand that the school return all donations made by said rich person during his / her lifetime, then sue them when they don't comply. At a minimum they'd be adding needed PSI on the school hacks.

Posted by: Raj 2023-11-09 14:27

#1 A billion here, a billion there, and soon it begins to add up even in the Ivy League.

Posted by: Tom 2023-11-09 14:13

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