A Race to Retract
https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/harvard-students-take-back-support-for-hamas/Quote:
A flurry of Harvard University students and groups are desperately trying to backtrack on their support of a letter blaming Israel for the mass slaughter of its own people by Hamas terrorists as some business titans seek to blacklist them from future jobs.
Four of the initial 34 student organizations attached to the inflammatory statement have already withdrawn their support while board members of other groups have quit to distance themselves.
Late Tuesday, 17 other Harvard groups joined around 500 faculty and staff and 3,000 others in signing a counter-statement attacking the other groups' letter as "completely wrong and deeply offensive," according to the campus paper, the Harvard Crimson.
A third letter from nearly 160 faculty members also ripped Harvard's response to the scandal, writing that it "can be seen as nothing less than condoning the mass murder of civilians based only on their nationality."
Others in groups supporting the initial letter which held "the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence" quit while distancing themselves from any involvement....
But the student organizations only seemed to have released their statements after billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman called for the university to release the names of the students in these groups so that they will not be hired by Wall Street.
"I have been asked by a number of CEOs if Harvard would release a list of the members of each of the Harvard organizations that have issued the letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas' heinous acts to Israel, so as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their members," Ackman, the billionaire founder of hedge fund giant Pershing Square Capital Management, wrote on his X social media account on Tuesday.
"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."
