A dozen CEOs back Bill Ackman’s call to not hire Harvard students who blamed Israel for Hamas attack By Ariel Zilber
Published Oct. 11, 2023, 6:38 p.m. ET More On: Israel war 2023 State Department official resigns over Biden’s support of Israel’s war against Hamas Miami dentist fired after he was seen tearing down posters of Israeli hostages Bodies of Israeli dad, wheelchair-bound 16-year-old daughter found 12 days after Hamas’ music fest massacre
At least a dozen business executives have endorsed Bill Ackman’s call to refuse to hire members of student groups at Harvard that signed on to a letter blaming Israel for Hamas’ deadly attack on Saturday that killed more than 1,200 people, including at least 22 Americans.
Jonathan Newman, CEO of salad chain Sweetgreen, was among a group of business honchos who seconded Ackman in urging that the signatories of the letter circulated by a coalition of 34 Harvard student groups that “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” be blocked. “I would like to know so I know never to hire these people,” Newman wrote in response to Ackman’s post on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. “Same,” David Duel, CEO of health care services firm EasyHealth, wrote in response to Newman. The backlash and possible blacklisting has led to a flurry of backpedaling by four of the initial student organizations attached to the inflammatory statement — while board members of other groups have quit in an effort to distance themselves. Late Tuesday, 17 other Harvard groups joined around 500 faculty and staff and 3,000 others in signing a counter-statement attacking the other groups’ letter as “completely wrong and deeply offensive,” according to the campus paper, the Harvard Crimson.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/bill-ackman-harvard-students-names-who-blame-israel-in-hamas-war/
Published Oct. 11, 2023, 6:38 p.m. ET More On: Israel war 2023 State Department official resigns over Biden’s support of Israel’s war against Hamas Miami dentist fired after he was seen tearing down posters of Israeli hostages Bodies of Israeli dad, wheelchair-bound 16-year-old daughter found 12 days after Hamas’ music fest massacre
At least a dozen business executives have endorsed Bill Ackman’s call to refuse to hire members of student groups at Harvard that signed on to a letter blaming Israel for Hamas’ deadly attack on Saturday that killed more than 1,200 people, including at least 22 Americans.
Jonathan Newman, CEO of salad chain Sweetgreen, was among a group of business honchos who seconded Ackman in urging that the signatories of the letter circulated by a coalition of 34 Harvard student groups that “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” be blocked. “I would like to know so I know never to hire these people,” Newman wrote in response to Ackman’s post on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. “Same,” David Duel, CEO of health care services firm EasyHealth, wrote in response to Newman. The backlash and possible blacklisting has led to a flurry of backpedaling by four of the initial student organizations attached to the inflammatory statement — while board members of other groups have quit in an effort to distance themselves. Late Tuesday, 17 other Harvard groups joined around 500 faculty and staff and 3,000 others in signing a counter-statement attacking the other groups’ letter as “completely wrong and deeply offensive,” according to the campus paper, the Harvard Crimson.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/bill-ackman-harvard-students-names-who-blame-israel-in-hamas-war/
