re: Billionaire former Victoria's Secret CEO pulls funding from Harvard

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You know you are taking the progressiveness a bit too far

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Former U.S. Ambassador and longtime UPenn donor Jon Huntsman announced after a university board of trustees meeting Friday that his family is cutting off funding.

“The University’s silence in the face of reprehensible and historic Hamas evil against the people of Israel (when the only response should be outright condemnation) is a new low. Silence is antisemitism, and antisemitism is hate, the very thing higher ed was built to obviate,” Huntsman said in a letter, obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian, to UPenn President Liz Magill.

“Consequently, Huntsman Foundation will close its checkbook on all future giving to Penn — something that has been a source of enormous pride for now three generations of graduates. My siblings join me in this rebuke,” he added.

Trustee Vahan Gureghian resigned from UPenn’s board of trustees after the three-hour emergency meeting.

“Just as at so many other elite academic institutions, the Penn community has been failed by an embrace of antisemitism, a failure to stand for justice and complete negligence in the defense of our students’ wellbeing,” Gureghian said in his resignation letter, CNN reported.