Posted on 10/11/2023 5:56:48 PM PDT by george76
At least a dozen business executives have endorsed Bill Ackman’s call to deny hiring members of student groups at Harvard who 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, the 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 the a coalition of 34 Harvard student groups who “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
“I would like to know so I know never to hire these people,” Newman wrote in response to Ackman’s post on X on Tuesday.
“Same,” David Duel, CEO of healthcare 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 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
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A third letter from nearly 160 faculty members also ripped Harvard’s response to the scandal, writing that it “can be seen as nothing less than condoning the mass murder of civilians based only on their nationality.”
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Ackman, the hedge fund billionaire and founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, posted an item on his X social media account demanding that his alma mater release a list of names of those who belong to the student groups who co-signed the controversial statement.
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Hear, hear!!!
These corporations have sewn this hatred and will continue. They know what these higher education institutions are teaching.. pure hatred of others. Self and innocents. When they stop hiring planned parenthood advocates, I will believe them, otherwise it’s just virtue signaling.
On one hand, we would be peeved if some CEO demanded that JimRob hand over the names of FReepers.
On the other hand, FR doesn’t call for the equivalent of holding rape victims entirely responsible for all unfolding arrests and trials.
Now do the Duke 88 who backed the stripper murderer who destroyed the lives of the Duke Lacrosse team students.
It is not just the murder advocating students that need banishment.
The best thing to do is to refuse to hire any student that attended Harvard; just to make sure.
Otherwise, the hiring company is taking a big risk.
When virtue signaling goes wrong.
Vile idiots.
Until Harvard releases the names of the signers in these groups, just don’t hire ANY Harvard grads.
oh it is just a youthful indiscretion
who hasnt cheered baby beheadings
during their crazy college days?
Jim is also not releasing public statements on our behalf.
And, ironically, it's largely been liberal Boomer Jews in positions of power and influence who have been the driving forces behind the leftist radicalization of academia and corporate America.
They created the monster that has now turned against them.
Classic Bolshevik Tactic: Work your operatives into “leadership” roles of all types of organizations, then use them as front groups promoting your leftist agenda as if everyone in the organization actually supports it. The favorite is to co-opt groups that have credibility and long-standing positive images. Examples: everyone thinks of PTA’s as wholesome means for boosting local schools — until leftists took over the “National Association of PTAs” and used it to promote leftist/Democrat politics. The current head of the Modern Library Association is some sort of gender-bent Marxist who uses the organization to promote her sick agenda).
Most people are too busy with real work and studies to devote time to “leading” student groups, etc. That leaves easy pickings for radicals or ambitious users to step into the top jobs, then hollow out the organizations like a mafia bustout.
Lesson: If you belong to groups, pay attention to what they are really doing. Don’t join, contribute, or pay dues unless you are committed to keeping it from being a front for exploitation by causes you oppose.
Most members of the 34 Harvard organizations that just endorsed rape and child murder porbably joined for resume filler, networking, or social contacts. Any decent members need to seize back control, purge the radicals, and come out swinging against this crap — or take the backlash they deserve. Big corporations should get membership lists of these 34 organizations, and a lot more of them across the nation, and end the careers of lowlifes before they begin.
“I would like to know so I know never to hire these people,” Newman wrote in response to Ackman’s post on X on Tuesday.
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Well ok... but these same CEOs were the ones who caved in to the BurnLootMurder crowd and gave them massive amounts of money etc. That’s right.... the same BurnLootMurder crowd who support Hamas... https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/10/black-lives-matter-organization-shows-support-for-hamas-amid-terror-attack-on-israel/
If the enemy of my enemy is my enemy, it certainly follows that the friend of my friend is my friend...
With hypocrisy like that, why bother to make it so blatant?
These are the official Harvard student organizations that did this.
It would be no different than if your employer endorsed your work organization, and another employer asking for those members and who attended your company organization function.
I wonder how quickly those student names will be ‘leaked’?
But judging from the names of the student organizations themselves, the majority are Muslim oriented, as well as one or two radical Jewish organizations.
This gives Harvard an excellent opportunity to eliminate radical student organizations.
SAME HERE
Very, very, dangerous precedent.
Yesterday there was a truck driving around Harvard Square with large video screens displaying photos of students who supported Hamas. Bill Ackman’s Israeli wife is a professor at MIT where she runs a media lab. Hmmm...I wonder if there is any connection? LOL
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