UPenn donors cutting ties with the university due to anti-Semitism

Rogers Waters and UPenn President Liz Magill

Donors are no longer donating, not even a donut, to the University of Pennsylvania after the university president Liz Magill made squishy statements about the Hamasshole terrorist attacks on Israeli citizens on October 7th.

Hedge fund executive David Magerman and investor Jonathan Jacobson, have made reference to Magill's response late last month to the Palestine Writes festival to which the school played host.

Magerman tweeted:

“I am deeply ashamed of my association with the University of Pennsylvania. I refuse to donate another dollar to Penn. There is no action anyone at Penn can take to change that.”

And Jacobson wrote:

“Enough. It is time to reverse this trend and restore our ‘elite’ universities to the principles upon which they were founded: as places of inquiry, where lively debate, diversity of opinion and communication across lines of difference is not only cherished, but actually mandated."

Jacobson pledged a single dollar for every year Magill remains employed by the school.

Magill suddenly became the purveyor of free speech saying the university "fiercely support[s] the free exchange of ideas as central to our educational mission."

Exceptions do exist, however, when she tried to set a precedent by yanking tenure away from one of its own professors for her politically incorrect statements.

No, Magill draped herself in the mantle of free expression as the school played host over the weekend to the Palestine Writes festival, which included a gaggle of anti-Semites. Among them was the former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, who has donned Nazi regalia and hung an inflatable pig adorned with a Jewish star from the rafters at his concerts.

Ironically, Waters worships pigs.

Magill said in her statement that "many have raised deep concerns" about the anti-Semitic views of some of the speakers, but failed to mention that she obviously shares them.

Meanwhile, the atmosphere on campus in Philadelphia is such that, in the past week, the university Chabad's sukkah and Hillel buildings were vandalized, and a swastika was found at a university building.

Why is it that the university supports free speech by anti-Semites but not by controversial tenured professors who they tried to fire?

Christopher Eisgruber, president of Princeton University pledged to "stand up against racism, wherever and whenever we encounter it," but kept his mouth shut when members of his own faculty welcomed an anti-Semite to campus. 

It's a waste of time to make this argument to Jew-haters. There's really no convincing them how evil they are because they never see themselves as such. If they can support Hamas after what they did, well there is nothing anyone can say.

Is the USA slowly becoming Nazi Germany of World War Two?

Comment, please.

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