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Jewish billionaire Henry Swieca quits Columbia board over ‘abhorrent’ threats to Jews on campus
New York Post ^ | Nov. 9, 2023 | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Posted on 11/09/2023 4:04:08 PM PST by nickcarraway

Jewish billionaire and philanthropist Henry Swieca quit the Columbia University board of directors over what he called the Ivy League school’s “moral cowardice” for allowing a “blatantly anti-Jewish” sentiment to thrive on campus.

“To my deep regret the reputation and integrity of Columbia University, and by extension Columbia Business School, have been significantly compromised by a moral cowardice that appears beyond repair,” Swieca said in a resignation letter made public this week, Fox News reported.

“This is abhorrent,” he wrote in the scathing letter. “Any other minority group on campus would never have to face anything close to this level of intimidation and hatred of Jewish and pro-Israel students experience.” Swieca added, “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”

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1 posted on 11/09/2023 4:04:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Wonder how many liberal polices he supported.


2 posted on 11/09/2023 4:07:43 PM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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“Wonder how many liberal polices he supported.”

I’m going with all of them.

L


3 posted on 11/09/2023 4:09:43 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: nickcarraway

Damn far-left, terrorist ***-kissing, liberal students sure are some flaming ahos. Go to “college”, GO FULL RETARD.


4 posted on 11/09/2023 4:15:53 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Build Back Better' is a Bidenskyyyyyyism for 'we gotta get rid of all dem white peoples'.)
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A LITTLE HELP NEEDED IF YOU CAN
5 posted on 11/09/2023 4:16:35 PM PST by deport
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To: nickcarraway

Meanwhile, board member A turns to board member B and says: “I told you we should let those effin’ Jews on the Board!”


6 posted on 11/09/2023 4:22:39 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Well they are off the Board now, or soon will be. So the Ivy League comes full circle on Jewish exclusion.


7 posted on 11/09/2023 4:42:17 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: nickcarraway

Some people think rich jews defunding this stuff will reverse the trend of elite campus anti-Israel, anti-jewish.

It won’t because, jews have just been ejected from the Regime Coalition.

The left now controls every institution in America. They no longer need Jewish money or support, so jews are no longer necessary and are out of the “Friend Coalition”.


8 posted on 11/09/2023 4:48:04 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: nickcarraway

Well this man must be truly loaded, because I have never heard of him before.

CLOSE THE CHECKBOOKS!!!!


9 posted on 11/09/2023 4:53:56 PM PST by jocon307
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To: Reverend Wright

true enough, the Puppetmeisers that seized control over the DemoNaziCommie party political machine and college campuses have ejected, ditched any Jewish support

at the same time, this one generous philantropic Jew who is fortunate to have money ... is not stupid. There’s no reason on God’s green earth why he should continue to contribute funds to a school which harbors and enables IslamoNazi or just plain neoNazi mobs and their violence, lies, propaganda, and intimidation of good people on campus


10 posted on 11/09/2023 4:59:16 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: nickcarraway

He just noticed the rabid New hatred, America hatred, White hatred, Christian hatred, in that cesspool?


11 posted on 11/09/2023 5:00:42 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Reverend Wright

In the history of mankind, I do not believe they have ever been people with as much disposable money as the super billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. Even a King’s wealth was tied up in castles and land. We are in a new period of time in history, and it is not good.


12 posted on 11/09/2023 5:13:35 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: nickcarraway

I’d like to shake that man’s hand!


13 posted on 11/09/2023 5:16:59 PM PST by bantam
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To: Freee-dame
The standard cure for elitists gone crazy stupid,


14 posted on 11/09/2023 5:20:25 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: nickcarraway

Henry, sweetie, where ya been?

Columbia took the Oil Money and went Jihadie decades ago.
They’ve been anti Jew for a long time.

And ya been giving them money?

What a Maroon!


15 posted on 11/09/2023 5:21:37 PM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: nickcarraway

but he was perfectly ok with all marxist crap they teach


16 posted on 11/09/2023 6:21:32 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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Henry, sweetie, where ya been? Columbia took the Oil Money and went Jihadie decades ago.

Same with Georgetown, the ostensibly Catholic university in DC where many of our elites have studied. Soon after GU stopped having Jesuit priests as their president and installed a lay professional administrator as president in 2001, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal gave $20 million in 2005 for a building and institute named in his honor to promote "interfaith understanding" and the study of Islam...

17 posted on 11/09/2023 6:23:14 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: nickcarraway
“To my deep regret the reputation and integrity of Columbia University, and by extension Columbia Business School, have been significantly compromised by a moral cowardice that appears beyond repair,” Swieca said in a resignation letter made public this week, Fox News reported.

“This is abhorrent,” he wrote in the scathing letter. “Any other minority group on campus would never have to face anything close to this level of intimidation and hatred of Jewish and pro-Israel students experience.” Swieca added, “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”

Agreed agreed agreed. Abhorrent, cowardly, despicable. Tolerance for everyone. Oh, not so fast there Jewish people!

18 posted on 11/09/2023 6:46:07 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
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To: escapefromboston
Wonder how many liberal polices he supported.
He is an Orthodox Jew, who donates primarily to Republicans. https://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/henry-swieca.asp?cycle=20
19 posted on 11/10/2023 12:05:34 AM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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To: nickcarraway

Moral cowardice. That sums up the liberal/Marxist Left in the US.

Re the students - No more pay to slay.

To the Administrators - lawsuits

To the professors and other teachers - You’re fired!!!


20 posted on 11/10/2023 2:49:44 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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