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Re: Billionaire Ronald Lauder threatens to pull funding if UPenn doesn't do more to fight antisemitism
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Oct 18, 2023, 5:39:48 AM10/18/23
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On 10 Apr 2022, Phil Yagoda <gayrig...@yahoomail.com> 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
news:t2uvq7$3soah$1...@news.freedyn.de:
> 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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