A “broad coalition” of university officials is issuing a statement supporting Israel and opposing the “evil” of Hamas after several universities sparked outrage for not immediately condemning the terrorist attacks.
“We are horrified and sickened by the brutality and inhumanity of Hamas,” read the statement obtained by Axios.
“Murdering innocent civilians, including babies and children, raping women and taking the elderly hostage are not actions of political disagreement, but actions of hate and terrorism.
“The foundation of all universities is the search for truth and it is times like these that require moral clarity,” he continues.
“Like the fight against ISIS, the fight against Hamas is a fight against evil.
“We, the presidents and chancellors of universities and colleges in the United States of America and around the world, stand with Israel, the Palestinians suffering under the cruel rule of Hamas in Gaza, and all people of moral conscience.”
It was signed by university officials from the University of Notre Dame, Yeshiva University, Baylor University, and officials from SUNY and CUNY, according to Axios.
Additionally, the presidents of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities, and the United Negro College Fund signed the message.
A “broad coalition” of university officials, led by Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, signed a statement condemning Hamas.Getty Images
“We are building a broad coalition that can articulate inhumanity when we see it,” Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, told Axios.
“This is the greatest atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust and one of the most significant attacks of international terrorism.”
The statement comes as universities across the country face backlash for failing to condemn Hamas.
At Kingsborough Community College in New York City, the chair of the business department criticized its president in an open letter for not showing Jewish students the same support he showed black students after the death of George Floyd and the Asian students amid rise in hate crimes. against Asian Americans.
Meanwhile, Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor who served as ambassador to China, announced last week that his family will no longer donate to the University of Pennsylvania over its “silence” over the Hamas attack on Israel last weekend. .
University officials at Baylor University in Texas also signed the statement. AFP via Getty Images
“Moral relativism has fueled the university’s race to the bottom and sadly has now reached a point where remaining impartial is no longer an option,” he wrote Friday night.
Huntsman criticized the school’s “silence in the face of Hamas’s reprehensible and historic evil against the people of Israel,” which he called “a new low.”
He said “the only response should be a total condemnation.”
Apollo Management CEO Marc Rowan, a Wharton graduate who, along with his wife, donated $50 million to the business school in 2018, also demanded that UPenn President Liz Magill and Scott Bok, president of the board of directors will resign.
At Harvard University, officials are under fire for failing to condemn a statement signed by more than 30 student organizations, which held Israel “fully responsible” for the violence.
After its publication, former university president Larry Summers demanded that Harvard administrators condemn the statement signed by the student organizations.
The statement comes as universities across the country face backlash for failing to condemn Hamas. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
“Why can’t we find anything approaching the moral clarity of Harvard’s statements after the death of George Floyd or the Russian invasion of Ukraine when terrorists kill, rape and take hostage hundreds of Israelis attending a Music festival?” she asked.
Bill Ackman, founder of the multibillion-dollar hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, also demanded that Harvard administrators release a list of the names of students whose groups co-signed the letter.
He enlisted the support of at least a dozen business executives who vowed to deny employment opportunities to students whose groups signed the letter.
On Monday, the Wexner Foundation wrote to Harvard’s board of trustees “formally ending its financial support” to Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
“We are stunned and sickened by the lamentable failure of Harvard leadership to take a clear and unequivocal stance against the barbaric murders of innocent Israeli civilians,” wrote leaders of the nonprofit organization started by the founder of Victoria’s Secret, Leslie Wexner, and his wife, Abigail.
It left Israeli students at school feeling “abandoned,” especially when 34 student groups quickly issued a statement “holding Israel entirely responsible for the violent terrorist attack against its own citizens,” the letter shared by StopAntisemitism said.
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