Billionaire hedge fund CEO Bill Ackman and several other business leaders are demanding Harvard University release the names of students whose organizations signed on to a letter blaming solely Israel for the deadly attacks by Hamas.
The CEOs want the students blacklisted. But some of those students have since distanced themselves from the letter. “One should not be able to hide behind a corporate shield when issuing statements supporting the actions of terrorists,” Ackman said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. If the members support the letter, the names of the signatories “should be made public so their views are publicly known,” Ackman said.
Act on a Dream, a student group supporting immigrants, told the Crimson the group signed the statement as a “result of miscommunication and a lack of due diligence in sharing the statement with the entirety of the board.” Others responded to Ackman saying students weren’t aware of the letter’s content or that groups they belong to were signing the statement. “No need for this level of harassment,” Mohini Tangri, a Harvard Law School student, said on X in response to Ackman.
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