Big Money CEO Proclaims He Is Closing His Mighty Checkbook to His Alma Mater UPenn Until Their Pro-Terrorist Leadership Resigns -- And He's Calling on All Other Alumni to Do the Same

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The only thing that matters to these "socialists" is their fucking filthy unearned money and creature comforts and this is the only way to hurt them.

One of the University of Pennsylvania's biggest benefactors called on alums of the Ivy League school to "close the checkbooks" over the college's failure to condemn Hamas' terror attack on Israel -- weeks after it held a controversial pro-Palestinian festival.

Apollo Management CEO Marc Rowan -- a graduate of Wharton who along with his wife donated $50 million to the business school in 2018 -- demanded UPenn President Liz Magill and Scott Bok, chair of the board of trustees, step down, according to a letter obtained by The Post.

The letter sent to the school's newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian, pointed to last month's festival that included writers who have called for "Death to Israel" as a troubling sign that the vaunted school tolerates antisemitism.

"It took less than two weeks to go from the Palestine Writes Literary Festival on UPenn's campus to the barbaric slaughter and kidnapping of Israelis," wrote Rowan, who is chairman of the Board of Advisors of Wharton.

"President Magill's allowing of UPenn's imprimatur to be associated with this conference, and her failure to condemn this hate-filled call for ethnic cleansing, normalized and legitimized violence that ranged from the targeting of Jewish students and spaces here at UPenn to the horrific attacks in Israel."

Magill has remained silent about Saturday's terror attack, instead posting on Instagram about Penn's recent football game and Monday's Columbus Day holiday.

She posted a photo with a caption saying it's a day to "recognize and honor native and indigenous peoples and celebrate their culture, history, and importance as members of the Penn community."

The post drew scorn from her social media followers.

"How about some mention of the devastations going on in Israel," one user asked.

Another student wrote, "Please support your jewish and Israeli students."

Rowan noted the "sickening parallels" between events at Penn and at Harvard -- where several student groups blamed Israel for last weekend's Hamas massacre that killed more than 1,000 -- many of them women, children and the elderly.

"I call on all UPenn alumni and supporters who believe we are heading in the wrong direction to 'Close their Checkbooks'" until Magill and Bok resign, Rowan wrote.

"Join me and many others who love UPenn by sending UPenn $1 in place of your normal, discretionary contribution so that no one misses the point."

He wants people to donate $1 so that UPenn knows that these mega-donors didn't just miss UPenn's most recent solicitation -- it was seen, and they are choosing to donate what the school is now worth.

Rowan wrote a letter to UPenn, for publication in their school newspaper, but this bastion of free speech refused to print it.

So he published it at Bari Weiss' Free Press.

Marc Rowan: University Donors, Close Your Checkbooks

Trustees, myself included, have sat in silence as our schools were taken over by ideologues. It's time to wake up.

By Marc Rowan

While Hamas terrorists were slaughtering Israeli Jews, university administrators were figuring out how to spin it. Do not just take my word for it; read their statements. Across academia, administrators issued statements on behalf of their institutions expressing a repulsive moral equivalence between victims of terror and the perpetrators of that terror. The antisemitic rot in academia is unmistakable.

At the University of Pennsylvania, where I sit on the Wharton School's Board of Overseers, leaders have for too long allowed this kind of anti-Jewish hate, which sanitizes Hamas's atrocities, to infect their campuses. There must be consequences.

I call on all UPenn alumni and supporters who believe we are heading in the wrong direction to close their checkbooks until President Liz Magill and Chairman Scott Bok resign.

...

UPenn President Elizabeth Magill and Board Chair Scott Bok permitted UPenn to sponsor this conference and failed to condemn its hate-filled calls for violence. This is not a matter of free speech, but University-sponsored hate speech.

Words and ideas matter. They mattered in the motivation of Hamas terrorists slaughtering more than 1,000 innocent civilians and kidnapping more than a hundred in their goal to annihilate Jews. In our viral, online world it is especially dangerous when once-fringe ideologies receive a stamp of legitimacy--especially from our elite academic institutions, which hold a special place in our society. By sponsoring the spread of the violent ideologies expressed in the Palestine Writes conference, they normalize and give their imprimatur to what would otherwise be considered morally reprehensible.

UPenn is not alone in allowing this culture of hate to become mainstream. It is true for universities across the country. And it's long past time for donors to take notice. Ultimately, the direction of these institutions is the responsibility of its president and its board of trustees.

At UPenn, the embrace of double standards and the unacceptable status quo, which privileges antisemitism, did not begin on President Magill's and Chairman Bok's watch, but they are the protectors of it. Now they are now leading a purge of dissent. They have created a culture of intimidation and fear of speaking out against this status quo. At present, they are organizing attacks on me and my Jewish fellow trustees for speaking out.

The responsibility also rests with many of our alumni leaders and trustees, myself included, who have sat by quietly as the pursuit of truth--the ostensible mission of our elite institutions--was traded for a poorly organized pursuit of social justice and political correctness.

All universities must be embargoed by normal sane patriotic, anti-terorrorist Americans. And then we must take back government and demand our own terrorist-enabling Republican officials finally end government funding of these institutions.

These institutions are now violently hostile to more than half of the country. These places are "not for us" -- they are enemy camps where we are not permitted to speak.

Why the fuck should we be compelled to continue subsidizing them?

David Burge
@iowahawkblog

Wacky college fads thru the years:

1930s: swallowing goldfish
1950s: panty raids and stuffing phone booths
1970s: streaking
2020s: Nuremberg-style pro-Holocaust pep rallies

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