Billionaire Bill Ackman has had enough. He sent a letter to Harvard President Claudine Gay and the topic was antisemitism on Harvard’s campus. The CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management posted his thoughts on social media to spread the word.

Please see my below letter to the President of Harvard University sent today:

November 4, 2023

Dear President Gay,

I am writing this letter to you regretfully. Never did I think I would have to write a letter to the president of my alma mater about the impact of her actions…

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) November 5, 2023

It is a lengthy letter. He focuses on Claudine Gay and her “clear message that the eliminationist and antisemitic statements of the protesters are permissible on campus.”

Ackman has two degrees from Harvard. He graduated with a bachelor of arts in 1988 and received a master of business administration in 1992. According to Forbes, Ackman is worth $3.6B. He is one who called for a list of names of members of the groups who signed a letter blaming Israel for the massacre of October 7 by Hamas. Ackman’s point was to help companies to avoid hiring any of those Harvard students as they graduate and enter the job market.

Name them and shame them.

Ackman said that last week he met with Jewish, Israeli and non-Jewish students on campus. He came away from those conversations with the understanding that the situation on Harvard’s campus is “dire” and getting worse, not better. He said it was worse than he realized. “Jewish students are being bullied, physically intimidated, spat on, and in several widely-disseminated videos of one such incident, physically assaulted.” He pointed to President Gay’s video address released on October 12. She said that Harvard “embraces a commitment to free expression,” which Ackman said paved the way for antisemitism on campus.

How else would such a tone-deaf reaction by the president be taken? She enables the bad behavior of the student demonstrators. She enables students to bully Jewish students with such open-ended acceptance of expression. Is physical assault a part of free expression of speech? Of course not. Yet, there is silence from Harvard’s president. Why is she allowing the students to run the campus when that is her responsibility. At a time that calls for moral clarity, she has failed miserably. Maybe she believes that Israel deserved its massacre on October 7, as the student demonstrators do. If so, she should own up to her opinions so that parents of Jewish students, and others, know where their children would stand on campus. Perhaps Gay thought it was enough to release a video where she tried to straddle a fence on support.

Gay’s video, which was titled “Our Choices,” began with her describing the Israel-Hamas war as a “moment of intense pain and grief for a great many people in our community and around the world,” to which she added that she is experiencing the same feelings.

She continued by saying members of the Harvard community have a choice to either “fan the flames of division and hatred” or to “try to be a force for something different and better.”

“People have asked me where we stand. So let me be clear. Our university rejects terrorism. That includes the barbaric atrocities perpetrated by Hamas. Our university rejects hate. Hate of Jews. Hate of Muslims. Hate of any group of people based on their faith, their national origin, or any aspect of their identity. Our University rejects the harassment or intimidation of individuals based on their beliefs,” Gay said.

What else are the demonstrations against Israel and Jews than hatred against “people based on their faith”? The sole reason that Hamas supporters in America and around the world call for the elimination of Israel and Jews is because of their religion.

Ackman rightly states that chants of ‘Intifada! Intifada! Intifada! From the River to the Sea, Palestine Shall Be Free!’ is a call for violent insurrection and elimination. The students know exactly what they are chanting. That’s the point.

He said he asked his daughter who graduated from Harvard in 2020 about antisemitism on campus when she was a student. She told him that antisemitism was non-existent then. Whether it was her experience and not that of others, I don’t know. But isn’t it interesting that all of this hatred and violence has bubbled up over the last two or three years? Does national political leadership play a role in it? I think it does. Liberal Democrats have not been good friends to Israel and certainly not supportive of Bibi Netanyahu since he came back into office.

Today there are red handprints on the front gate to the White House. The demonstration in Washington, D.C. was insurrection-lite in its size and scope. Don’t look for those who tried to breech the White House lawn or to tear down the fence to be tossed in prison for many years on criminal charges as the January 6 people were treated. The demonstration was huge yet today is being described by corporate media as a “passionate” protest.

The White House gates this morning after passionate protests over the weekend. pic.twitter.com/gVENEMZO5Q

— Mary Bruce (@marykbruce) November 6, 2023

The double standard is alive and well. The only way to deliver a message that will force change is for wealthy donors to cut off the universities who are complicit in these hateful demonstrations. Hit them in their bank accounts and things will change.