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Another Billionaire Quits Alma Mater Over ‘Anti-Jewish’ Climate

‘MORAL COWARDICE’

Henry Swieca resigned from the board of Columbia University’s business school.

Henry Swieca
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Billionaire Henry Swieca has quit the board of the Columbia University Business School in protest of what he described as “blatantly anti-Jewish student groups and professors allowed to operate with complete impunity.” Swieca, the investor son of Holocaust survivors, is the latest in a wave of big-dollar donors to slam their alma maters over the response to the Israel-Hamas war. Forbes reports that in his resignation letter, Swieca accused Columbia of “moral cowardice” and said it’s sending a message that Jews are unsafe on campus.

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