{"id":2073080,"date":"2023-10-19T13:18:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T17:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deeply-ashamed-upenn-loses-major-donor-over-anti-semitism\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T13:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T17:22:46","slug":"deeply-ashamed-upenn-loses-major-donor-over-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deeply-ashamed-upenn-loses-major-donor-over-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"UPenn Loses Major Donor Due to Anti-Semitism, Regrets Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdeeply-ashamed-upenn-loses-major-donor-over-anti-semitism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2073080&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>The Fallout Over UPenn&#8217;s Handling of Pro-Palestinian Event Sparks Major\u200b Donor\u200c Backlash<\/h2>\n<p>The University of Pennsylvania is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/my-eyes-hurt-maybelline-trashed-after-using-bearded-man-to-sell-lipstick\/\" title=\"Maybelline slammed for using bearded man to promote lipstick, causing eye discomfort.\">facing severe backlash<\/a> and losing support from major donors after its \u2062refusal to distance itself from a pro-Palestinian event\u200d and condemn the terror attacks in Israel. In an open\u200d letter, former hedge fund builder and philanthropist\u2063 David Magerman expressed his deep shame and announced that he would no longer\u200b donate to UPenn.\u200b He called on all \u2064&#8221;self-respecting \u2064Jews&#8221; to follow suit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>&#8220;I am deeply ashamed of my association with the University of Pennsylvania. I\u200d refuse to donate\u200b another dollar to Penn,&#8221; David Magerman, a former hedge fund builder and philanthropist, wrote Tuesday in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7119703883882352640\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Magerman specifically criticized UPenn&#8217;s handling of the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, which featured speakers with a history of making anti-Semitic comments. The event received criticism\u200d from both the campus\u200b community and national Jewish groups.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode\">\n<div class=\"border-comp-divider mb-4 mr-4 w-full max-w-[500px] border px-5 py-4 text-[16px] leading-[20px] text-[#262626] md:float-left\" id=\"in_article_related_stories\">\n<h2 class=\"mb-3 font-sans text-[16px] font-semibold uppercase leading-[19px] text-[#2F2F2F]\">Related Stories<\/h2>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-4 sm:line-clamp-3\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/hamas-underground-terror-network-presents-challenge-for-idf-ground-invasion-5512070?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\"><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-sm sm:text-base\">Hamas\u2019 Underground Terror Network Presents Challenge for IDF Ground Invasion<\/h3>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">10\/18\/2023<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[70px] sm:basis-[120px]\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/hamas-underground-terror-network-presents-challenge-for-idf-ground-invasion-5512070?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\">\n<picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" https:><\/source><source type=\"image\/*\" https:><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 flex gap-2\">\n<div class=\"grow\">\n<div class=\"mb-1 line-clamp-4 sm:line-clamp-3\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/what-is-a-kibbutz-the-israeli-communes-targeted-in-the-hamas-attacks-5512550?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\"><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-sm sm:text-base\">What Is a Kibbutz, \u2063the Israeli Communes Targeted in the Hamas Attacks?<\/h3>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-comp-caption text-[14px] leading-[18px]\">10\/18\/2023<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"shrink-0 basis-[70px] sm:basis-[120px]\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/what-is-a-kibbutz-the-israeli-communes-targeted-in-the-hamas-attacks-5512550?ea_src=author_manual&#038;ea_med=related_stories\">\n<picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" https:><\/source><source type=\"image\/*\" https:><\/source><\/picture>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In response to\u2064 the criticism, UPenn President Liz Magill and other administrators condemned anti-Semitism but emphasized the university&#8217;s support \u200dfor the\u2062 &#8220;free \u2062expression of views,&#8221; even those that contradict\u200d its values.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We unequivocally\u2014and emphatically\u2014condemn anti-Semitism as antithetical to our institutional values. As a university, we also fiercely support the free exchange of ideas as central to our educational mission,&#8221; the administrators wrote on Sept. \u200b12, a week\u2064 ahead of the event. &#8220;This includes the expression \u200bof views that are controversial and\u2062 even those that are incompatible\u200c with our institutional values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Magerman argued that UPenn&#8217;s defense of free speech, combined with its initial ambivalence towards \u200bthe Hamas\u200d terror attacks, indicates\u200c a\u200c &#8220;misguided moral compass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My only conclusion, from your fierce support for the Hamas-affiliated speakers at \u200bthe Palestine Writes festival, followed by your equivocating statements about the \u2062heinous acts\u200d of barbarism perpetrated by the \u2062same Hamas you allowed these speakers to promote, from your failure to call out evil, is that you are ambivalent to the unprecedented evil\u2064 their acts represent,&#8221; he\u200c wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The \u200dUniversity of Pennsylvania \u2062does not condemn as evil the butchers who behead babies\u200d and kidnap and rape girls. The University \u200cof Pennsylvania does not consider those actions \u2062to be evil and their perpetrators to be evil,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Why can&#8217;t \u2062you call it evil? I can only conclude that you don&#8217;t consider it evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Magerman firmly stated that nothing the university does can change his\u2064 mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not asking\u2062 for\u200b any actions. You have shown me who you are,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;My only remaining hope is that all self-respecting \u200dJews,\u200c and all moral citizens of the \u2063world, dissociate themselves from \u200dPenn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>Magerman&#8217;s outrage follows\u2064 a second statement by President Magill, in which she condemned Hamas&#8217; terrorist assault on Israel and\u200c their violent atrocities against civilians. This was a change from her initial statement\u2062 that did not include any condemnation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The statement also\u2063 acknowledged the anger and frustration\u200c caused by the Palestine\u200c Writes Literature \u2064Festival, particularly\u2063 because it coincided with the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. Magill admitted that\u200c the university should have acted more swiftly in expressing opposition to the anti-Semitic views expressed by some of the event&#8217;s speakers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The University did \u200bnot, and emphatically \u200ddoes not,\u2064 endorse these speakers or their views,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Among the festival&#8217;s speakers were Roger Waters, a Pink Floyd\u2062 co-founder known for performing in a Nazi-like\u200b uniform, and Marc Lamont Hill, a \u200cformer CNN commentator fired for\u200d calling for a &#8220;free Palestine from \u2063the river to the sea,&#8221; a chant seen\u2062 by many \u200cas a call for the extermination of Israel. The event&#8217;s organizer, Susan Abulhawa, has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ap-claps-back-at-fired-anti-israel-reporter-who-claims-she-was-cancel-culture-victim-journalists-cannot-take-sides\/\" title=\"AP Claps Back At Fired Anti-Israel Reporter Who Claims She Was \u2018Cancel Culture\u2019 Victim: Journalists \u2018Cannot Take Sides\u2019\">made controversial remarks<\/a>, including expressing \u200bhope for the eradication of\u2063 Israel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<p>Several other UPenn donors, including Former Utah \u200bGov. Jon Huntsman and \u2062Apollo CEO \u2064Marc Rowan, have also withdrawn their financial \u2063support from the\u200b university in\u2063 recent days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What actions can UPenn take to address \u2063the \u2062concerns raised by major donors and condemn anti-Semitism while still upholding principles of academic freedom<\/h2>\n<p><span>  And murderers\u2064 of Jews\u200d\u200d, only the expressions \u2063of free speech by their colleagues and fellow travelers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Magerman&#8217;s letter has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-denies-meadowss-request-to-transfer-georgia-racketeering-case-to-federal-court\/\" title=\"Meadows's plea to move Georgia racketeering case to federal court denied by judge.\">garnered\u2063 significant attention<\/a> and support from other donors as \u2062well. Some have pledged to \u200cwithhold future donations until UPenn takes a stronger stance \u2062against anti-Semitism and condemns the terror attacks. The university relies heavily on donations\u200c to fund scholarships, \u200dresearch, and various academic programs, so the\u200c backlash from major donors poses a significant financial threat.<\/p>\n<p>This incident at UPenn is not isolated, as universities across the United States have faced controversy \u2063and\u200c backlash regarding their handling\u200d of pro-Palestinian events and \u200danti-Semitic incidents. Critics argue that universities should prioritize inclusivity and condemn hate speech, while \u200balso respecting the values of free speech and academic freedom.<\/p>\n<p>However, the line between free speech and hate speech can sometimes be blurred, and universities must navigate this\u2064 delicate balance. It is crucial for universities to\u2063 foster an environment that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/riley-gaines-criticizes-penn-state-and-claims-school-canceled-her-event\/\" title=\"Riley Gaines slams Penn State, alleges event cancellation.\">encourages diverse viewpoints<\/a> \u2062and constructive dialogue,\u200d but they must also condemn any form of hate speech or expressions that incite violence.<\/p>\n<p>In this particular case, UPenn&#8217;s hesitant response and \u200crefusal to distance itself from the\u2063 pro-Palestinian event have sparked major\u200d backlash. Donors like \u200dMagerman argue that by failing to\u200b condemn the\u200c terror attacks and allowing speakers with a history of making\u200d anti-Semitic comments, the university is condoning\u2062 hate speech and endorsing\u200d violence against Jews.<\/p>\n<p>It is \u200bessential \u2062for universities to carefully consider their response to such events and weigh the potential consequences. While supporting the free expression of views is an \u200cimportant principle, universities must also take a stand against hate speech and ensure the safety and \u2064well-being of all\u200c their students\u200c and community members.<\/p>\n<p>As the fallout continues over UPenn&#8217;s handling of the pro-Palestinian event and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deeply-ashamed-upenn-loses-major-donor-over-anti-semitism\/\" title=\"UPenn Loses Major Donor Due to Anti-Semitism, Regrets Actions\">subsequent \u200bmajor donor backlash<\/a>, the \u2063university now\u2062 faces a critical test\u2064 of its commitment to inclusivity, \u2062academic freedom, and the fight against hate speech. \u200bIt remains to be seen how UPenn will \u200baddress the concerns raised by Magerman and other donors, and whether\u2062 it will take stronger action to\u200c condemn anti-Semitism and\u2064 support its Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, universities have a responsibility to create a safe and inclusive environment for all students and community members. Balancing the principles of free speech and \u2063condemning hate speech is a challenging task,\u2062 but it is one that universities must undertake in order to preserve\u200b their integrity and promote the values of tolerance, understanding, and respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Pennsylvania faces ongoing repercussions for not denouncing the terror attacks in Israel and maintaining ties with a pro-Palestinian event. Another significant donor has withdrawn support and urged all &#8220;self-respecting Jews&#8221; to follow suit. 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