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   CEO defends sharing list of Harvard stud   
   19 Oct 23 08:24:45   
   
   XPost: misc.legal, alt.education, alt.politics.democrats   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns, alt.society.liberalism   
   From: yourdime@outlook.com   
      
   After his LinkedIn account was allegedly suspended for criticizing pro-   
   Palestine Harvard students, EasyHealth CEO David Duel explained why this   
   conflict is personal to him, and doubled down on Bill Ackman’s calls not   
   to hire those Ivy League candidates.   
      
      
   "I'm not surprised my account was taken down for sharing a list of   
   students who were advocating for the death and destruction of the Jewish   
   people," Duel said on "Cavuto: Live" Saturday. "We're not talking about   
   arguments over a two-state solution or political divisions of land. We're   
   talking about Hamas. We're talking about terrorism, whose own charter   
   calls for the extermination of the Jews."   
      
   "I think the hypocrisy and lack of moral clarity on campuses and with   
   administration is conscious or subconscious antisemitism," he expanded.   
   "And we need to make sure these students pay a price and that their   
   neighbors, friends and employers know that they harbor these beliefs."   
      
   LinkedIn did not respond to FOX News Digital's request for comment.   
      
   Duel was one of many U.S.-based CEOs to back billionaire hedge fund   
   manager Ackman’s argument to release the names of students who signed a   
   Harvard letter blaming Hamas’ terror attacks solely on Israel.   
      
   "I have been asked by a number of CEOs if Harvard would release a list of   
   the members of each of the organizations that have issued the letter   
   assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous acts to Israel, so as to   
   insure [ensure] that none of us inadvertently hire any of their members,"   
   Ackman wrote last Tuesday in a post on X, formerly Twitter.   
      
   Following the controversy created by the letter, the groups that signed on   
   to the version circulated on Sunday removed the names of their groups from   
   the letter.   
      
   A version of the letter published on Google Docs said, "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."   
      
   Duel shared context Saturday on why it’s important to release the   
   students’ names.   
      
   "My family fled their homeland of Iran for over 2,000 years due to the   
   Islamic Revolution in 1979. The Persian-Jewish community had to flee   
   overnight, a once unimaginable situation," the CEO explained. "And as a   
   result of my family's experience, I don't take my freedoms and securities   
   for granted."   
      
   "Our campuses are supposedly bastions of free speech, but are truly   
   domains of preferred speech at best," he continued. "I think you and I   
   know very well that in the wake of George Floyd, if white nationalists   
   decided to hold a rally at UCLA or Harvard, it would never be allowed. Yet   
   these same elite institutions are allowing and often encouraging calls of   
   protests for the slaughter and genocide of the Jewish people."   
      
   Noting these are "the same people" who have vocally demanded safe spaces   
   from other cultural issues like misgendering, Duel also argued that the   
   students shouldn’t forever "be judged by the worst decision they made in   
   their life."   
      
   https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ceo-defends-list-harvard-students-   
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