William “Bill” Ackman, 57, is an American billionaire hedge fund manager who is the founder and chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital Management, a hedge fund management company. As of January 2024, Ackman’s net worth was estimated at $4 billion by Forbes.
In October 2023, following the onset of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, several Harvard undergraduate student groups signed a letter condemning the Israeli state. The statement held the “Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” declared that millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been “forced to live in an open-air prison,” and called on Harvard to “take action to stop the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians.”
In response, Ackman called for the publication of the names of all students involved in signing the letter so that he could ensure his company and others do not “inadvertently hire” any of the signatories. Ackman posted, “One should not be able to hide behind a corporate shield when issuing statements supporting the actions of terrorists,” and the names “should be made public so their views are publicly known.”
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Quote: “ ‘Jewish students are being bullied, physically intimidated, spat on, and in several widely-disseminated videos of one such incident, physically assaulted,’ Ackman wrote in his letter to [then Harvard president Claudine] Gay. Ackman was referring to an incident on campus in October, when an Israeli Harvard Business School student was confronted by pro-Palestine demonstrators.”
— BusinessInsider.com
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