Bill Ackman asserted that Yale University is “no different than Hamas” and that the Ivy League school is “potentially more dangerous” than a Palestinian terrorist organization.
A post posted by a billionaire hedge fund manager went viral on the X account. It quotes a “friend” who was “asked to write a letter of recommendation for her daughter who is applying to Yale University.”
An anonymous “friend” wrote that he was unable to write the letter because he “no longer” wanted to be associated with Yale.
“There is no way she would ask me to write a letter of recommendation to get into Hamas,” Ackman wrote, adding that the university is “a cult that tolerates no differences and is convinced of any disagreement.” “It's no different from Hamas because it's a cult with a lot of people,” he added. Its purpose and mission are beyond contemplation. ”
The post went on to say that while the Palestinian organization responsible for the October 7, 2023 massacre of Israelis “will soon be defeated,” Yale “will continue to pump graduates into the next position.” Yale claimed it was “potentially even more dangerous.” Powerful for years to come. ”
The “friend” Ackman quoted wrote that the prospective student “would not learn” the “essential life skill” of “the ability to change one's mind” at Yale or “any Ivy League school.”
“Their reputation remains very high, and all of their faculty, staff, and alumni have the arrogant convictions of religious fanatics,” Ackman wrote.
The Post has reached out to Yale University for comment.
Yale University is one of the campuses roiled by protests and demonstrations by students denouncing Israeli military attacks in the Gaza Strip following the October 7, 2023 massacre by Hamas terrorists.
Subsequent Israeli retaliation, in which tens of thousands of Palestinians are estimated to have been killed in the Gaza Strip, has prompted calls from students at Yale and other universities to divest from companies doing business with Israel. .
In April, Yale University students set up a “Liberation Zone” encampment on campus, similar to the tent protests at Columbia University, which prompted university officials to arrest students participating in the demonstrations. A request was made to the New York City Police Department.
Police were called to Yale's campus and arrested more than 50 people, including 46 students.
Yale Corporation, which manages the school's $40 billion endowment, has rejected calls by students to divest from companies doing business with Israel.
Mr. Ackman, a Harvard graduate, publicly called on his alma mater to fire President Claudine Gay for failing to police alleged anti-Semitic attacks against Jewish students on its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Gay was found to have plagiarized in his academic work and ultimately resigned in January.
Ackman criticized Gay for plagiarism and later threatened to sue Business Insider after it was revealed that his wife, Neri Oxman, had plagiarized multiple paragraphs of her 2010 MIT doctoral dissertation. .
