We have previously noted how some serious, deep-pockets donors have been closing their checkbooks to universities which have tolerated the anti-Semitism of the left. Losing major donors is certainly a serious problem, but losing future job opportunities for your graduates is another. From CNN, not exactly an evil, reich-wing source:
Top law firms signal they won’t recruit from college campuses that tolerate antisemitism
by Matt Egan | All Soul’s Day, November 3, 2023 | 4:45 PM EDT
New York – CNN — Some of the nation’s most powerful law firms are warning America’s elite universities to crack down on antisemitism on campus – or the schools and their students will face real consequences.
“Over the last several weeks, we have been alarmed at reports of anti-Semitic harassment, vandalism and assaults on college campuses, including rallies calling for the death of Jews and the elimination of the State of Israel,” more than two dozen law firms wrote in a letter obtained by CNN. “Such anti-Semitic activities would not be tolerated at any of our firms.”
The law firms added they would not “tolerate outside groups engaging in acts of harassment and threats of violence, as has also been occurring on many of your campuses,” and say they are putting universities on notice about hiring implications in the future.
The website Stop Antisemitism and its associated Twitter feed work to expose the individual anti-Semites caught exposing themselves in public, and several of the pro-Hamas demonstrators have found themselves unemployed.
But this is something new. Not only will the individually-offending students find themselves blackballed by top law firms, but their entire law school classes will not be welcome. The pro-Hamas, pro-terrorist demonstrators are doing more than exposing themselves to job insecurity, but are actively harming their fellow classmates, some of whom are almost certainly their friends.
And it makes sense for the law firms. Rather than having to do a deeper due-diligence on law school grads from Yale, Columbia and Hahvahd, the firms simply won’t recruit any of the grads from those colleges.
No one would be the least bit appalled were the law firms banning graduates from a law school promoting the Ku Klux Klan, but, of course, none of those exist. Demonstrations which expose overt Islamophobia would (probably) expose those law schools to the same blackballing, but those things haven’t been an issue, either.The law firms behind the letter are among the most sought-after landing spots for students who graduate from these same law schools, including: Cravath, Swaine & Moore; Debevoise & Plimpton; Kirkland & Ellis; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
Since the initial publication of the letter, additional law firms have signed on. A full list is available here.
The letter campaign was spearheaded by Joe Shenker, senior chair of Sullivan & Cromwell, according to the New York-based law firm.
The letter was sent Monday to the deans of law schools including Yale, Harvard, Columbia, the University of Virginia, Georgetown, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, the University of Michigan, New York University and Stanford, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.
“There is no room for anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism or any other form of violence, hatred or bigotry on your campuses, in our workplaces or our communities,” the letter said.
There have already been real-world consequences for some students.
Last month, the president of the NYU Student Bar Association, Ryna Workman, released a letter saying Israel “bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life.” Law firm Winston & Strawn promptly pulled a job offer to that NYU student, who had previously worked as a summer associate at the firm.
Afterwards Workman said in a statement that her message “came across as insensitive to the suffering of Israeli’s during a time of crisis and that is not what I intended.” Workman also said they’ve received multiple death threats attacking “all facets” of their identity after the initial comments.
Oops, sorry, too f(ornicating) late! People recognize that apologies like Miss Workman’s are nothing more than self-serving, and not genuinely meant. But I’m sure that she can get a job working as a public defender somewhere! She was offered a chance to condemn Hamas’ actions, but refused.
Of course, Winston & Strawn ought to have known better than to extend a job offer to anyone stupid enough to “who identif(y) as non-binary and uses they and them pronouns,” so the firm have no one to blame but themselves.
In the letter from the law firms on Wednesday, they requested a dialogue to understand how the law schools are “addressing with urgency this serious situation at your law schools.”
I can picture those law schools scrambling, but they’ll have a real problem, because their activist students will squall! The sensible, more conservative ones will help, but the libs, the ones who are just plain stupid, will raise some sort of ruckus.
We have freedom of speech in the United States, and everyone is free to say whatever he thinks and believes. But along with that comes the freedom of other people to listen, and when someone says something stupid or anti-Semitic or racist, the listeners are free to take their decisions about the speakers on whatever criteria they wish.
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