Ronald Lauder, heir to Estee Lauder, may cancel his financial support for the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School for hosting a controversial Palestine event and its weak response to antisemitism, according to a letter obtained by the New York Post.
Ronald Lauder, heir to Estee Lauder, may cancel his financial support for the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School for hosting a controversial Palestine event and its weak response to antisemitism, according to a letter obtained by the New York Post.
Referring to Hamas’ deadly attacks on Israel, Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, adds, “The timing of the event could not possibly have been worse. Those included author Aya Ghanameh, who has called for “Death to Israel” and writer Randa Abdel-Fatteh, who has demeaned Israel as a “demonic, sick project” of which she “can’t wait for the day we commemorate its end.”
While Lauder has not decided whether or not he will continue to donate to the University of Pennsylvania, he states in the letter that he is “re-examining” ongoing financial support. "The university's silence in the face of reprehensible and historic Hamas evil against the people of Israel is a new low. Silence is antisemitism, and antisemitism is hate, the very thing higher ed was built to obviate," Huntsman told Magill.
Rowan said there are “sickening parallels” between Penn’s actions and the 35 Harvard student groups that banded together in a public letter to blame Israel for Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 massacre of 1,300 people in Israel, most of them civilians and many of them women, children and the elderly. A further 3,300 were injured, and 200 have been kidnapped. It was the bloodiest attack in Israel’s history.
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