<p>Jewish billionaire and philanthropist Henry Swieca has quit the board of Columbia University&#8217;s business school, citing the Ivy League school’s “moral cowardice” on anti-Jewish sentiment on campus.</p>
<p>Swieca slammed Columbia for allowing &#8220;pro-Hamas students&#8221; to march on campus and said he must make &#8220;a clear and principled stand regarding recent events.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;To my deep regret, the reputation and integrity of Columbia University, and by extension, Columbia Business School, have been significantly compromised by a moral cowardice that appears beyond repair,&#8221; Swieca wrote in an October 30 letter to Columbia Business School Dean Costis Maglaras.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">A brave and honorable member of the Board of Columbia Business School resigns in response to the university&#39;s refusal to condemn Hamas&#39; crimes against humanity and its support of pro-Hamas organizations on campus. <a href="https://t.co/1Hmqw9TO8g">pic.twitter.com/1Hmqw9TO8g</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShaiDavidai/status/1722300899639336976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Swieca called the deadly attacks by the terrorist group Hamas on Israeli civilians last month &#8220;deeply revolting.&#8221;</p>
<p>On October 7, Hamas launched deadly terrorist attacks on Israel that killed more than 1,400 people, including women and children. Israel has responded with airstrikes and a ground offensive.</p>
<p>&#8220;Statements from the University are meaningless when pro-Hamas students march on campus yelling slogans calling for the complete destruction of Israel,&#8221; Swieca wrote, calling it &#8220;abhorrent.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The entire Columbia administration has failed to take a strong stance condemning Hamas, an organization whose very charter plainly states its goal to annihilate the state of Israel and Jews worldwide,&#8221; Swieca continued. &#8220;With blatantly anti-Jewish student groups and professors allowed to operate with complete impunity, it sends a clear and distressing message that Jews are not just unwelcome, but also unsafe on campus.&#8221;</p>
<p>Swieca concluded his letter by saying that given these circumstances, he is &#8220;compelled to disassociate myself&#8221; from Columbia.</p>
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<p>&#8220;My resignation is an expression of my deep concern for the direction in which the university is heading,&#8221; Swieca said.</p>
<p>After the letter&#8217;s release, Columbia Assistant Professor Shai Davidai <a href="https://twitter.com/ShaiDavidai/status/1722300899639336976" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> support for the former board member, calling him &#8220;brave and honorable&#8221; and saying Swieca resigned in response to the university&#8217;s &#8220;refusal to condemn Hamas&#8217; crimes against humanity.&#8221;</p>
<p>On November 1, Columbia University&#8217;s president praised the &#8220;persistence&#8221; of students accused of anti-Semitism in the wake of Hamas&#8217; attacks, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/columbia-university-president-praises-persistence-students-accused-antisemitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are grateful for the persistence and perseverance of the students, and their families, in the face of this harassment,&#8221; Columbia University President Minouche Shafik said in an email to the community.</p>
<p>Shafik said the university was establishing a &#8220;Doxing Resource Group&#8221; after a nonprofit sent trucks to Columbia&#8217;s campuses in Manhattan with large video screens that read &#8220;Columbia’s Leading Antisemites&#8221; and showed students&#8217; headshots and names.</p>
<p>Pro-Palestinian protests have cropped up at a number of universities since Hamas&#8217; attacks last month.</p>

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