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   A flurry of Harvard University students and groups are desperately trying   
   to backtrack on their support of a letter blaming Israel for the mass   
   slaughter of its own people by Hamas terrorists — as some business titans   
   seek to blacklist them from future jobs.   
      
   Four of the initial 34 student organizations attached to the inflammatory   
   statement have already withdrawn their support — while board members of   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.   
      
   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.”   
      
   Others in groups supporting the initial letter — which held “the Israeli   
   regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” — quit while   
   distancing themselves from any involvement.   
      
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   “As a board member of a Harvard group that signed the statement on Israel,   
   I think it was egregious and have resigned from my role,” Danielle   
   Mikaelian tweeted Monday.   
      
   “I am sorry for the pain this caused,” the law student continued. “My   
   organization did not have a formal process, and I didn’t even see the   
   statement until we had signed on.”   
      
   Mikaelian added that she “prevented another student group I remain on the   
   board of from signing on when I saw the statement.   
      
   “This statement is not representative of my values, and my heart is with   
   those impacted.”   
      
   “I also want to make it clear that I know firsthand some of my fellow   
   students are in this situation too,” Mikaelian wrote, noting: “I wasn’t   
   the only board member who stepped down today.”   
      
   Law student Mohini Tangri also tweeted that “many members had no say in   
   whether their [organizations] signed” the letter.   
      
   “Many weren’t even notified that their [organizations] were considering   
   doing so,” she claimed.   
      
   A number of student organizations have also put out statements in recent   
   days announcing that they are rescinding their signatures from the   
   controversial statement.   
      
   In a statement posted to Instagram, Harvard Ghungroo said it “would like   
   to formally apologize for co-signing the statement made by the Harvard   
   Palestinian Committee and have formally retracted our signature.   
      
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   “We would like to clarify that we stand in solidarity with both Israeli   
   and Palestinian victims and families,” the group wrote.   
      
   “Harvard Undergraduate Ghungroo strictly denounces and condemns the   
   massacre propagated by the terrorist organization Hamas. We truly   
   apologize for the insensitivity of the statement that was released   
   recently.”   
      
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   The Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Student Association also released a   
   statement on Instagram expressing “regret” at signing the letter that “has   
   been interpreted as a tacit support for the recent violent attacks in   
   Israel.   
      
   “We deplore the attacks that have taken the lives of hundreds of innocent   
   civilians, including 10 Nepali students in Israel,” the student   
   organization continued.   
      
   “To ensure that our stance on the condemnation of violence by Hamas and   
   support for a just peace remains clear, we retract our signature from the   
   statement,” it concluded.   
      
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   Harvard College Act on a Dream told the student paper that it only signed   
   as “a result of miscommunication and a lack of due diligence.”   
      
   “The endorsement of [the] statement in no way reflects their individual   
   opinions about the ensuing violence in Palestine and Israel.”   
      
   The statement released by the Harvard Palestinian Committee no longer   
   lists the more than 30 student groups that had originally signed on to the   
   statement, but rather says: “This statement was co-authored by a coalition   
   of Palestine solidarity groups at Harvard.   
      
   “For student safety, the names of all original signing organizations have   
   been concealed at this time.”   
      
   But the student organizations only seemed to have released their   
   statements after billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman called for the   
   university to release the names of the students in these groups so that   
   they will not be hired by Wall Street.   
      
   “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, the billionaire founder of hedge fund giant Pershing Square   
   Capital Management, wrote on his X social media account on Tuesday.   
      
   “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.”   
      
   Ackman, a Harvard grad who has a net worth of $3.5 billion, added: “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.”   
      
   As the backlash raged, Harvard president Claudine Gay released a statement   
   Tuesday saying: “Let there be no doubt that I condemn the terrorist   
   atrocities perpetrated by Hamas.   
      
   “Such inhumanity is abhorrent, whatever one’s individual views of the   
   origins of longstanding conflicts in the region.   
      
   “Let me also state, on this matter as on others, that while our students   
   have the right to speak for themselves, no student group — not even 30   
   student groups — speaks for Harvard University or its leadership.   
      
   “We will all be well served in such a difficult moment by rhetoric that   
   aims to illuminate and not inflame. And I appeal to all of us in this   
   community of learning to keep this in mind as our conversations continue.”   
      
      
   --   
   We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
      
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