Columbia University faced a wave of fury over antisemitism on campus from
billionaire donors Monday � with one calling pro-Palestinian mobs on the
campus �f�ing crazy.�

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, a Columbia graduate, said he was
stopping donations immediately and charged the college with failing to
keep its Jewish students safe.

Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman, a business school graduate, said he
would stick with a stop on donations which began shortly after the October
7 Hamas massacres.

Sources told The Post that other billionaires, including industrialist Len
Blavatnik may also consider pulling back as the campus is rocked by pro-
Hamas protests which have left Jewish students traumatized.

�Columbia University�s leadership must take immediate steps to ensure that
Jewish students are protected from threats and intimidation, and that
those who violate their policies are held to account,� Blavatnik, the
founder of Access Industries, told The Post.

Cooperman, Blavatnik, and Kraft have donated nearly $100 million in total
to Columbia, according to some estimates � money that has created multiple
buildings on campus, scholarships for engineers, and a center for Jewish
students.

None of the donors has so far called publicly for the president, Nemat
�Minouche� Shafik, to be replaced, even as she faced pressure from
Republican members of Congress led by Elise Stefanik, the third-ranking
member of the House majority, and from the Columbia Jewish Alumni
Association to go.

�Donors aren�t issuing an ultimatum, it�s just that they aren�t writing
checks anymore,� another source with knowledge of the university�s
finances said.

The spectacle of students building a mass encampment of tents at the
center of campus, shouting pro-Hamas slogans and abusing Jewish students
enraged Cooperman, the Omega Advisors founder, whose parents immigrated
from Poland.

He told CNN, �These kids are f***ing crazy. They don�t understand what
they�re doing or what they�re talking about.�

He told The Post that he had spoken directly to Shakfik and told her,
�Stop hiring these left wing professors that fill kids with hate.�

https://nypost.com/2024/04/22/us-news/billionaires-stop-columbia-cash-
over-anti-israel-protests/

>Columbia University faced a wave of fury over antisemitism on campus from
>billionaire donors Monday - with one calling pro-Palestinian mobs on the
>campus "f-ing crazy."

He cut Trump off and now this. Isn't good to see rightists being punished
for their America hating traitorous ways!