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Wexner Foundation cuts ties with Harvard over leadership's response to Hamas attack on Israel

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The Wexner Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on the development of Jewish leadership, announced Monday it is ending ties with Harvard University for the 'dismal failure' of university leadership to take a stand against Hamas' attack on Israel.

Nonprofit quits Harvard over leadership’s attitude to student groups’ statement on Hamas attackStudents walk through a gate at Harvard University, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass.

Last week, Harvard President Claudine Gay released a video statement on the Ivy League’s YouTube page saying the university rejects terrorism, hate, and harassment of any groups of people, and it embraces free expression “even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous.” Since Hamas’s attack on Israel Oct. 7, the fellows “no longer feel marginalized,” but instead they feel “abandoned.”

 

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