Remember the recent Palestine Writes Literature Festival, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) less than a month ago?
You may recall the executive director of the festival was Susan Abulhawa, who had quite the history of antisemitism and terror support.
Following the Hamas massacre, abduction and rape of innocent civilians, including babies, Abulhawa has let everyone know she not only supports and celebrates their actions, and has absolutely no compassion for the victims, who had it coming:
“Bring the Kufiah high and swirl it”
but that she’d love to join them:
This is the person UPenn platformed last month.
Speaking of which:
1987 College graduate Jon Huntsman Jr. told Penn President Liz Magill that his family will stop donating to Penn, stripping the University of a longtime donor amid backlash from influential trustees and alumni.
In an email to Magill obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian, Huntsman — a former University trustee, governor of Utah, and United States ambassador — said that the Huntsman Foundation will “close its checkbook” on future donations to Penn. Huntsman, whose family has donated tens of millions to Penn over the course of three generations, wrote that the University had become “almost unrecognizable” due to administrators’ response to antisemitism.
“Moral relativism has fueled the university’s race to the bottom and sadly now has reached a point where remaining impartial is no longer an option,” he wrote to Magill after a meeting of the Board of Trustees on Friday night.
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Following a three-hour emergency meeting of the Board of Trustees on Friday, trustee Vahan Gureghian announced his resignation in protest of University leadership, citing his decision as resulting from Penn’s response to the Palestine Writes Literature Festival.
Magill’s initial statement about the festival on Sept. 12 was the first time in recent memory that the University responded to criticism of a campus event.
Chair of the Wharton School’s Board of Advisors Marc Rowan called on Magill and Bok to step down last week, citing the University’s handling of antisemitism on campus. The DP also reported that multiple trustees were allegedly pressured to step down from their board positions after publicly criticizing Penn’s response to the Palestine Writes festival.
