Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman / Facebook
Bill Ackman, a graduate of both Harvard College and the Harvard Business School (MBA), is continuing his condemnations of the school over its failures to crack down on students calling openly on campus for the destruction of Israel and in support of Hamas terrorism.
Many have been calling for Harvard’s President Claudine Gay to resign after her miserable performance when testifying before the US Congress and failing to condemn the antisemitism proliferating on her school’s campus.
Ackman went on Twitter to praise Harvard Law Professor Mark Ramseyer for his “bravery” in condemning the hate speech at the school directed against jews saying, “. Perhaps he will inspire others.”
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“Finally, the Harvard faculty are speaking up,,” said Bill Ackman on Twitter. “Tenure was supposed to protect faculty so they could speak the truth. Unfortunately, cancelling, shaming, and the inevitable accusation of being a racist have prevented faculty from speaking the truth.”
Axkman also said that he is working with “some others on how we can accelerate necessary change at Harvard et al,” and that it “goes far beyond replacing President Gay.”
And Bill Ackman also praised those graduating high school students who are
rejecting early Harvard acceptance as “ antisemitism stigma plagues Ivy League institution.”
In November Bill Ackman called for the banning of the popular social media platform TikTik because of how the video sharing service allowed pro-Hamas propaganda to proliferate.
“The world is quickly moving to a very dark place,” Bill Ackman said at the time. “Social media has been amplifying the hate for a decade as algorithms wind us up.”
And he said that the names of the signatories should be made public so their views are publicly known.
“One should not be able to hide behind a corporate shield when issuing statements supporting the actions of terrorists, who, we now learn, have beheaded babies, among other inconceivably despicable acts,” said Ackman at the time.
In October Bill Ackman said he has 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 ensure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their members.”
Bill Ackman is the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, a hedge fund management company. He’s known for his activist investing approach, which involves taking large stakes in companies and pushing for changes in their management or strategies.
