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Billionaire Harvard fund manager sez Harvard president Claudine Gay must GO ! (and Ivy heads testify to Congress)

2023-12-06

[MAIL] A billionaire Harvard donor and alumnus has demanded the university president to resign after she refused to say that calling for the genocide of Jews was harassment.

Bill Ackman, a hedge fund manager who in 2014 gave $26 million to the university, said on Tuesday he was outraged by the performance of Claudine Gay.

I suppose he was giving her time to turn things around at his alma mater after he’d demanded the names of the Harvard students who’d signed the letter condemning Israel after Hamas’s 10/7 massacre, because he refused to hire them.

Ackman, who is Jewish, accused her of 'profound moral bankruptcy' and said she and other university presidents who spoke at a Congressional hearing on Tuesday must 'resign in disgrace'.

Gay was called to testify before the House education committee, along with the president of the University of Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Magill, and the president of MIT, Sally Kornbluth, who is Jewish.

All three women were pressed by Elise Stefanik, the chair of the House Republican Conference, over their actions to stamp out antisemitism on their campuses.

Posted by:Besoeker

#7 Funny how something that gets used to cancel anyone else (Elon Musk *cough*) is off-limits as a criticism when it's the hallowed halls of academe (leftist hive-mind central)

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-12-06 15:09

#6 #3 She obviously believes the same her students do, and was trying to be careful dealing with the crazy (cause they believe differently from her & her friends) congresspersons.

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-12-06 15:05

#5 Legal Insurrection liveblogged the thing at length here. With video clips. Scathing.

Posted by: trailing wife 2023-12-06 13:38

#4 She looks like her name should be Claudine Le$bian.

Posted by: Raj 2023-12-06 13:28

#3 Claudine's communications (if you can call her word salads that) to the alumni have been muddled and clueless. She was hired because of her skin color and her chromosomes. She has no other qualificaitons. Her resume is one of the lightest I've ever seen. And even the usual puff piece in Harvard magazine for a new president was tepid at best. They did their best, but there's only so much you can puff up someone this light.

Posted by: Tom 2023-12-06 12:24

#2 The Congressional testimony: Heads of 3 top US colleges refuse to say calling for genocide of Jews is harassment

Presidents of Harvard, MIT and Penn acknowledge safety concerns of Jewish and Israeli students, vow to take action against Jew hatred, but demur on what speech should be punished

Video at the link.

Posted by: trailing wife 2023-12-06 11:42

#1 All three women

How's that matriarchy working out there?

Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-12-06 06:49

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