We noted, just yesterday, that despite the noisy pro-Palestinian demonstrations on our college campuses and in large cities, only about 20% of Democrats support Hamas, and that, even surveying only those in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket, Hamas enjoyed less support than Israel. The radicals are both the noisy and stupid ones.

As for colleges themselves? We have also noted how some deep-pockets donors are closing their checkbooks and job offers in the face of the anti-Semitism being displayed. Now, yet another college is losing a billionaire donor. From Forbes:

Jewish Billionaire Henry Swieca Leaves Columbia University Board Over ‘Blatantly Anti-Jewish’ Student Groups

Brian Bushard, Forbes Staff | Thursday, November 9, 2023 | 1:12 PM EST

Henry Swieca, photo from Pulptastic.

Billionaire investor Henry Swieca became the latest corporate executive to cut ties with his alma mater, abruptly leaving Columbia University Business School’s board this week, citing “blatantly anti-Jewish student groups and professors,” according to a letter obtained by multiple outlets, as business leaders continue to criticize Ivy League universities over their response to largely pro-Palestinian protests in the wake of the conflict between Israel and Gaza militant group Hamas.

In his letter, Swieca said those students and professors are “allowed to operate with complete impunity,” which he argued “sends a clear and distressing message that Jews are not just unwelcome, but also unsafe on Campus” (Forbes has reached out to Swieca and the Columbia Business School for comment).

Swieca — who received his master of business administration from Columbia and founded Talpion Fund Management — argued in his letter that Columbia and the Columbia Business School’s reputation and integrity “have been significantly compromised by a moral cowardice that appears beyond repair,” citing protests on campus that included the pro-Palestinian rallying cry “from the river to the sea,” which the Anti-Defamation League has deemed antisemitic.

Swieca’s name does not appear on Columbia Business School’s website or on its list of board members.

Swieca is not the first billionaire cutting ties with the Ivy League school: billionaire hedge fund founder Leon Cooperman late last month cut off donations to Columbia in the wake of student-led pro-Palestinian protests, telling Fox Business he thinks those students “have sh** for brains.”

There’s more at the original.

Mr Swieca is the son of two Polish Jews who survived the Shoah, and made his money through canny investments. His wife, Estee Tobaly Swieca, is an American of Israeli extraction, and the family practice Orthodox Judaism. Is it any surprise that he would ‘divest’ himself from his Ivy League alma mater?

The students? They seem either too disinterested or too stupid to care that their school is losing alumni donors who give big bucks to their colleges. After all, they’ll have their degrees in hand before their schools will go broke or have to cut back significantly; the costs of their behavior will fall on future students, not them.

If, of course, they can find a job. 🙂