As we previously reported, on Friday the 13^th, Marc Rowan, University of Pennsylvania alumnus, Wharton school of business graduate and CEO of Apollo Global Management based in New York, called on UPenn alumni and supporters to “close their checkbooks” until President Liz Magill and Chairman Scott L. Bok step down, saying that under their leadership, the college had embraced anti-Semitism. The linked article from The Philadelphia Inquirer noted that all four of the protesting trustees were Jewish.

And now there’s this:

Penn president said university ‘should have moved faster’ in opposing Palestine Writes speakers with a history of antisemitism

Liz Magill’s comments came within days of a trustee’s resignation over Penn’s handling of the event and after several heavyweight donors withdrew funding support.

by Susan Snyder | Sunday, October 15, 2023 | 2:53 PM EDT | updated: 6:12 PM EDT

The University of Pennsylvania “should have moved faster” to share its position strongly against some speakers with a history of antisemitism appearing at the Palestine Writes festival held on campus last month, the school’s president said in a statement to the campus community Sunday.

Liz Magill’s email comes one day after major donor Jon Huntsman Jr., former governor of Utah and former U.S. ambassador to Russia, China, and Singapore, said his family’s foundation would halt donations to Penn, which he said has “become deeply adrift in ways that make it almost unrecognizable,” according to the Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper, which obtained and published his email to Magill.

He is among several high-profile donors who have withdrawn support in the last week, citing the university’s handling of the festival and its reaction to the Hamas attacks on Israel.

“I know how painful the presence of these speakers on Penn’s campus was for the Jewish community, especially during the holiest time of the Jewish year, and at a university deeply proud of its long history of being a welcoming place for Jewish people,” Magill said in her email. “The university did not, and emphatically does not, endorse these speakers or their views. While we did communicate, we should have moved faster to share our position strongly and more broadly with the Penn community.”

Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr, the former Governor of Utah, served as the United States Ambassador to China under President Barack Hussein Obama, and Ambassador to Russia under President Donald Trump. He served as CEO of Huntsman Family Holdings, a private entity that held the stock the family owned in Huntsman Corporation. He has also served as a board member of Huntsman Corporation, and as chair of the Huntsman Cancer Foundation. And he is a Christian, specifically a Mormon, not Jewish.

No wonder UPenn President Mary Elizabeth Magill took notice! Losing those pesky Joooos as contributors was one thing, but if the fallout metastasized to donors who are not Jewish, the University of Pennsylvania, a private, Ivy League college with a listed tuition and fees cost, not including housing, of $73,494 per academic year, has a real problem . . . and President Magill, who has only been at the helm of Penn since July of 2022, might just wind up as the former President of the university.
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Update: 1:44 PM EDT:

The Wexner Foundation is ending its association with Harvard University’s John F Kennedy School of Government.

In the absence of this clear moral stand, we have determined that the Harvard Kennedy School and The Wexner Foundation are no longer compatible partners. Our core values and those of Harvard no longer align. HKS is no longer a place where Israeli leaders can go to develop the necessary skills to address the very real political and societal challenges they face.

This is more than just The Wexner Foundation withdrawing from supporting Jewish students at the Kennedy School; given Hahvahd’s 1920s Jewish Quota, the university’s Board of Overseers might not even think that a bad thing. After all, if fewer Jews, who tend to be high scorers on entrance examinations, apply, then it’s easier for the school to admit far less qualified applicants who happen to check the right ‘diversity’ boxes. But the Foundation’s position will become well known among Jewish high school students who might normally want to be admitted to Harvard, and persuade them to go to another college, one without the blatant anti-Semitism some of our nation’s most prestigious colleges have shown.

I am, sadly, coming to the conclusion that a lot of the people on the left are very, very sympathetic to Jews, when the Jewish survivors are being liberated from concentration camps. When Jews are hard-working people, trying to do their best and get ahead in life? Perhaps not so much.