Marc Rowan (screen capture from Reuters video)
Apollo Management CEO Marc Rowan demanded that the supporters of the Ivy League school the University of Pennsylvania “close the checkbooks” to the school after it failed to condemn last week’s barbaric attack on innocent Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists. Rowan is an alumnus of the school and a donor and in making the call he is following the lead of Bill Ackman who took a similar stand against his old school Harvard for not stopping pro-Hamas groups on its campus.
In an op-ed Marc Rowan wrote, “Why is UPenn repeating tragic mistakes of the past? Words of hate and violence must be met with clear, reasoned condemnation, rooted in morality from those in positions of authority.”
“Words and ideas matter,” he added. “They mattered in the motivation of Hamas terrorists senselessly slaughtering and kidnapping of nearly 1,000 innocent civilians in Israel this week to eliminate the ‘European settlers,’ just as words and ideas have mattered throughout history.
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Meanwhile, Samira Nasr, the editor-in-chief of the famed monthly women’s fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar, apologized on social media after the outrage she received for pro-Hamas comments that Nasr made in the wake of the Hamas attacks.
Samir Nasr focused on Israel’s response to the burning alive of both the elderly and babies in their cribs with the comment, “Cutting off water and electricity to 2.2 million civilians… This is the most inhuman thing I’ve seen in my life.”
“I want to apologize to my friends, colleagues, and the entire Jewish community for my deeply insensitive and hurtful comments,” Samir Nasr later posted on Instagram. “I have no hate in my heart for any people, and I am not in any way sympathetic to a terrorist group that just murdered thousands of innocent Israeli civilians. I’m a firm believer that words matter, and I was careless with mine. My most sincere apologies.”
And while Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania may not have taken action against its Hamas supporting groups, New York University’s Law Student Bar Association is moving to oust its president Ryna Workman, an NYU law student due to her unforgivable remarks about Israel in the wake of the Hamas attacks.
Ryna Workman accused Israel of genocide – as a law student must know both the actual dictionary and legal definitions of that word – and wrote, “I want to express, first and foremost, my unwavering and absolute solidarity with Palestinians in their resistance against oppression towards liberation and self-determination.”
“Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life. This regime of state-sanctioned violence created the conditions that made resistance necessary,” she added.
At least one of New York’s big law firms Winston & Strawn – where Ryna Workman worked as an intern – took action and said it would not hire her as a full-time attorney.
“Winston stands in solidarity with Israel’s right to exist in peace and condemns Hamas and the violence and destruction it has ignited in the strongest terms possible,” said the firm in a statement. “We look forward to continuing to work together to eradicate anti-Semitism in all forms and to the day when hatred, bigotry, and violence against all people have been eliminated. Our strength lies in our unity, empathy, and shared humanity.”
