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   On 10 Apr 2022, Phil Yagoda  posted some   
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   > Progressives brought Jews into the USA where they immediately began   
   > advocating homosexuality and transgender perversion.   
      
   Billionaire Ronald Lauder, a powerful financial backer of the University   
   of Pennsylvania, is threatening to cut off donations if the school doesn’t   
   do more to fight antisemitism, CNN has learned.   
      
   The threat from Lauder, one of the heirs to the Estee Lauder cosmetics   
   company, marks the latest fallout from donors and alumni alarmed by a   
   Palestinian literary festival that was held on campus last month prior to   
   the Hamas terror attacks on Israel.   
      
   Even before the Palestine Writes Literature Festival started, UPenn   
   leaders acknowledged it would include speakers with a history of making   
   antisemitic remarks.   
      
   “The conference has put a deep stain on Penn’s reputation that will take a   
   long time to repair,” Lauder wrote to UPenn President Liz Magill on Monday   
   in a letter obtained by CNN.   
      
   “You are forcing me to reexamine my financial support absent satisfactory   
   measures to address antisemitism at the university,” Lauder wrote.   
      
   The Palestine Writes festival has created a backlash that prominent   
   donors, including billionaire Marc Rowan and former US Ambassador Jon   
   Huntsman, who have vowed to cut off funding. Rowan called for Magill to   
   resign and trustee Vahan Gureghian did step down late last week.   
      
   Lauder said he had two people taking photos at the Palestine Writes   
   festival and two more who listened to the speakers, who were “antisemitic   
   and viscerally anti-Israel.”   
      
   Organizers of the Palestine Writes festival denied that it embraced   
   antisemitism, according to UPenn student newspaper The Daily   
   Pennsylvanian.   
      
   https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/17/business/upenn-ronald-lauder/index.html   
      
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