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   From: democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/a-dozen-ceos-back-bill-ackmans-call-to-not-   
   hire-anti-israel-harvard-students/   
      
   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,” according to   
   the campus paper, the Harvard Crimson.   
      
   “can be seen as nothing less than condoning the mass murder of civilians   
   based only on their nationality.”   
      
   Fears that some of the nation’s brightest young minds had doomed their   
   futures led former Harvard President Larry Summers to caution against   
   singling out students who were “naive and foolish” about what they were   
   signing.   
      
   “I yield to no one in my revulsion at the statement apparently made on   
   behalf of 30 plus @Harvard student group,” Summers posted Wednesday on X,   
   the rebranded Twitter site. “But please everybody take a deep breath. Many   
   in these groups never saw the statement before it went out. In some cases   
   those approving did not understand exactly what they were approving.”   
      
   “This is not a time where it is constructive to vilify individuals and I   
   am sorry that is happening,” he added.   
      
   The former Treasury Secretary had taken school administrators to task for   
   failing to explicitly condemn Hamas and denounce the student letter on   
   Monday.   
      
   On Tuesday, 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.   
      
   “I have been asked by a number of CEOs if Harvard would release a list of   
   the members of each of the Harvard organizations that have issued the   
   letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous acts to Israel, so   
   as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their members,”   
   Ackman, who is married to Israeli-born MIT professor Neri Oxman, wrote on   
   X.   
      
   https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1711788747086233661   
      
   Bill Ackman   
   @BillAckman   
      
   I have been asked by a number of  CEOs if   
   @harvard   
    would release a list of the members of each of the Harvard organizations   
   that have issued the letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’   
   heinous acts to Israel, so as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire   
   any of their members.   
      
   If, in fact, their members support the letter they have released, the   
   names of the signatories should be made public so their views are publicly   
   known.   
      
   One should not be able to hide behind a corporate shield when issuing   
   statements supporting the actions of terrorists, who, we now learn, have   
   beheaded babies, among other inconceivably despicable acts.   
      
   https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1711153384953348169   
      
   ian bremmer   
   @ianbremmer   
   large number of harvard student organizations blaming israel solely for   
   hamas terrorist attacks killing 700 civilians.   
      
   can’t imagine who would want to identify with such a group. harvard   
   parents—talk to your educated kids about this.   
      
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   “If, in fact, their members support the letter they have released, the   
   names of the signatories should be made public so their views are publicly   
   known.”   
      
   “Share the list, please. We’ll stay away,” Ale Resnik, the CEO of Belong,   
   a rental housing startup, replied on X.   
      
   Martin Varsavsky, a tech investor and entrepreneur, told Insider that he   
   thought Ackman was “right.”   
      
   Michael McQuaid, the head of decentralized finance operations (DeFi) at   
   blockchain firm Bloq, weighed in, writing: “I completely agree, and have   
   been wondering the same the last couple of days if/when the names of these   
   students would come out.”   
      
   Michael Broukhim, CEO of FabFitFun, pledged to Ackman: “We are in as   
   well.”   
      
   Other executives who signaled their approval of Ackman’s post with an   
   emoji of applause, a thumbs up, or a gesture of agreement include Stephen   
   Ready, CEO of marketing firm Inspired; Hu Montague, founder and vice   
   president of construction company Diligent; Art Levy, head of strategy at   
   payments platform Brex; and Jake Wurzak, the CEO of hospitality group   
   Dovehill Capital Management.   
      
   The Post has sought comment from the aforementioned executives.   
      
   Groups that have since recanted include Amnesty International at Harvard,   
   Harvard College Act on a Dream, the Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Student   
   Association, the Harvard Islamic Society, and Harvard Undergraduate   
   Ghungroo, according to the campus newspaper Harvard Crimson.   
      
   Danielle Mikaelian, a Harvard Law Student who sits on the board of a group   
   that co-signed the letter, said she resigned due to the “egregious” nature   
   of the statement.   
      
   “I am sorry for the pain this caused. My organization did not have a   
   formal process and I didn’t even see the statement until we had signed   
   on,” Mikaelian wrote on her X account.   
      
   The pro-Hamas Harvard groups that signed the letter are African American   
   Resistance Organization; Bengali Association of Students at Harvard   
   College; Harvard Act on a Dream; Harvard Arab Medical and Dental Student   
   Association; Harvard Chan Muslim Student Association; Harvard Chan   
   Students for Health Equity and Justice in Palestine; Harvard College   
   Pakistan Student Association; Harvard Divinity School Muslim Association;   
   Harvard Middle Eastern and North African Law Student Association; Harvard   
   Graduate School of Education Islamic Society; Harvard Graduate Students   
   for Palestine; Harvard Islamic Society; Harvard Law School Justice for   
   Palestine; Harvard Divinity School Students for Justice in Palestine;   
      
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