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   Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer announced that he and his wife are resigning   
   from the Harvard Kennedy School's executive board because of the school   
   president’s response to a student letter that blamed Israel for the   
   terrorist attack on their country.   
      
   Ofer released a statement explaining that he and his wife, Batia, resigned   
   "in protest of the shocking and insensitive response by the president of   
   the university, who did not condemn the letter by student organizations   
   who blamed Israel for the massacres," according to a report from the New   
   York Post.   
      
   The decision comes after a letter, which was titled "Joint Statement by   
   Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine" and   
   signed by 31 student groups, condemned Israel after the country faced a   
   surprise attack from Hamas earlier this month.   
      
   "We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime   
   entirely responsible for all unfolding violence," the letter read. "The   
   apartheid regime is the only one to blame."   
      
   "Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for   
   75 years," the letter continued. "From systematized land seizures to   
   routine airstrikes, arbitrary detentions, to military checkpoints, and   
   enforced family separations to targeted killings, Palestinians have been   
   forced to live in a state of death, both slow and sudden."   
      
   The letter drew immediate backlash from across the U.S., which only grew   
   as the school and Harvard President Claudine Gay offered nothing but   
   silence in response.   
      
   After calls to condemn the letter grew, Gay released a video response last   
   week arguing that she does condemn the Hamas attacks but noting that she   
   "embraces a commitment to free expression" on campus, a right that   
   "extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even   
   outrageous."   
      
   "People have asked me where we stand. So let me be clear. Our university   
   rejects terrorism. That includes the barbaric atrocities perpetrated by   
   Hamas. Our university rejects hate. Hate of Jews. Hate of Muslims. Hate of   
   any group of people based on their faith, their national origin, or any   
   aspect of their identity. Our university rejects the harassment or   
   intimidation of individuals based on their beliefs," Gay said.   
      
   Harvard's president also noted that "students have the right to speak for   
   themselves," but cautioned that "no student group – not even 30 student   
   groups – speaks for Harvard University or its leadership."   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/us/billionaire-quits-harvard-board-student-letter-   
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