The letter claimed that Israel’s ‘apartheid regime is the only one to blame’ for the current violence.
Multiple American CEOs have expressed a willingness to blacklist Harvard students who blamed Israel for the violence perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli citizens.
On Oct. 8, the day after Hamas terrorists killed hundreds of Israeli civilians, 33 student groups at Harvard University co-signed the controversial letter.
Authored by the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC), the letter accused the Israeli government of being “entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” In an Oct. 10 post on X, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said that he has been asked by several CEOs if the university would release a list of the members of each of the Harvard organizations that supported the letter “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,” he said.
Mr. Ackman’s comments received support from several business leaders.
“I would like to know so I know never to hire these people,” Jonathan Neman, CEO of restaurant chain Sweetgreen, said in an X post.
“I second this,” Jake Wurzak, CEO of DoveHill Capital Management, said in a reply to Mr. Ackman’s post. “We are in as well,” said Michael Broukhim, the CEO of lifestyle firm FabFitFun.
In the Oct. 8 letter, the student groups insisted that the terror attacks “did not occur in a vacuum.” Instead, “the apartheid regime is the only one to blame. Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years.”
Some of the groups that signed the letter include Harvard Pakistan Student Association, Harvard Divinity School Muslim Association, Harvard Middle Eastern and North African Law Student Association, Harvard Jews for Liberation, Harvard Islamic Society, and Harvard Kennedy School South Asia Caucus Leadership.
