A “broad coalition” of college officials issued a statement in support of Israel and against the “evils” of Hamas after several universities sparked outrage for failing to immediately condemn the terror attacks.
“We are horrified and sickened by the brutality and tyranny of Hamas,” said a statement obtained by Axios.
“Killing innocent civilians, including babies and children, raping women and taking the elderly hostage is not an act of political disagreement, but an act of hatred and violence.
“The foundation of all universities is the pursuit of truth and times like these call for moral clarity,” it continued.
“Like the fight against ISIS, the fight against Hamas is a fight against evil.
“We, the presidents and chancellors of universities and colleges across the United States and the world stand with Israel, with the Palestinian people who are suffering under the brutal rule of Hamas in Gaza and with all moral people.”
It was signed by university officials at the University of Notre Dame, Yeshiva University, Baylor University and SUNY and CUNY officials, according to Axios.
Additionally, presidents of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, the Council for 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, has signed a statement condemning Hamas.Getty Images
“We are building a broad coalition that can call out tyranny when we see it,” Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, told Axios.
“This is the largest atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, and one of the most significant international terrorist attacks.”
The statement came as colleges across the country faced backlash for their failure to condemn Hamas.
At Kingsborough Community College in New York City, the chair of the business department called out 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 Asian students amid rising hate crimes. against Asian Americans.
Meanwhile, Jon Huntsman – the former Utah governor who served as ambassador to China – announced last week that his family would no longer donate to the University of Pennsylvania because of its “silence” over 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 race to the bottom and unfortunately has now reached a point where remaining impartial is no longer an option,” he wrote to Magill on Friday night.
Huntsman denounced the school’s “silence in the face of Hamas’ reprehensible and historic crimes against the people of Israel,” which he called “the new humiliation.”
He said that “the only response is outright condemnation.
Apollo Management CEO Marc Rowan — a Wharton graduate who with his wife donated $50 million to the business school in 2018 — also called on UPenn President Liz Magill and Scott Bok, the chairman of the board of trustees, to step down.
At Harvard University, officials were criticized for their failure to condemn a statement signed by more than 30 student organizations, which held Israel “solely responsible” for the violence.
After it was published, former university president Larry Summers demanded that Harvard administrators denounce the statement signed by the student body.
The statement comes as colleges across the country face backlash for their failure to condemn Hamas. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
“Why haven’t we found anything approaching the moral clarity of Harvard’s statements after the death of George Floyd or the Russian invasion of Ukraine when terrorists killed, raped, and held hundreds of Israelis hostage at a music festival?” he asked.
Bill Ackman, the founder of the multi-billion dollar hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, also demanded that Harvard administrators release a list of the names of the students whose group signed the letter.
He enlisted the support of at least a dozen business executives who vowed to deny job opportunities to the students whose group signed the letter.
On Monday, the Wexner Foundation wrote to Harvard’s board “formally terminating its financial support” of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
“We are appalled and disgusted by the abject failure of Harvard’s leadership to take a clear and unequivocal stand against the barbaric killing of innocent Israeli civilians,” wrote the leadership of the nonprofit organization started by Victoria’s Secret founder Leslie Wexner and his wife Abigail.
It left Israeli students feeling “abandoned” at the school – especially when 34 student groups quickly released a statement “holding Israel fully responsible for terrorist attacks on its own citizens,” said the letter shared by StopAntisemitism.
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