CEOs running a whole host of American business giants have urged the blacklisting of the Harvard University students, who recently signed a statement calling out Israel for the developments that have been unfolding across the occupied territories and the Gaza Strip over the past several days.
The CEOs, who run a whole host of American business giants, demanded the witch-hunt, two days after the issuance of the statement by a coalition of 34 Harvard student organizations.
The students said they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
Calling up an unprecedented 300,000 reservists, the Israeli regime has declared a “long” war on Gaza in response to Operation al-Aqsa Storm. Gaza’s resistance movements initiated the operation on Saturday in response to the occupying regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodshed and destruction against Palestinians.
The Israeli war has so far killed at least 1,100 Palestinians, including 326 children, and injured 5,339 others.
The military campaign has seen the regime leveling entire districts and featured its use of banned white phosphorous munitions against densely populated neighborhoods.
The students’ statement said, “The apartheid regime is the only one to blame” for the developments.
Moving ahead of the others, billionaire hedge fund CEO Bill Ackman demanded that Harvard University release the names of the students.
If the members support the letter, the names of the signatories “should be made public so their views are publicly known,” Ackman said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management said he wanted to ensure his company and others would not “inadvertently hire” the signatories.
Multiple other business leaders, including the CEOs of shopping club FabFitFun, health tech startup EasyHealth, and Dovehill Capital Management supported the call from Ackman.
“I would like to know so I know never to hire these people,” Jonathan Neman, CEO of restaurant chain Sweetgreen, said on X.
