The atmosphere on Wall Street in the U.S.
The impact of Harvard students criticizing Israel
“No hiring of Harvard graduates”
Wall Street, a high-income sector in the United States, is known for being populated by elites from prestigious schools. However, a blacklist suggesting not hiring graduates from ‘Harvard,’ one of the world’s top universities, is circulating on Wall Street, drawing global attention.
Recently, Bill Ackman, the mogul of the hedge fund industry and chairman of Pershing Square Capital, revealed that a group of Harvard students who signed a statement criticizing Israel had made the ’employment blacklist’ on Wall Street.
On his social media account, he wrote, “Many CEOs are trying to avoid hiring Harvard graduates who might have participated in the statement criticizing Israel and are seeking the list of student groups.”
This was influenced by a statement about the war between Israel and Palestine announced by some Harvard student groups a while ago.
34 Harvard student groups signed a statement saying that ‘the Israeli regime bears full responsibility for the recent attack by Hamas.’ They argued that “today’s events did not occur in a vacuum” and that Israel has been violent over the past 20 years, forcing Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to live in an ‘open-air prison,’ thereby raising the issue of Israel’s responsibility.
Bill Ackman, who is Jewish, immediately responded to this.
As a result, four student groups that participated in the signature withdrew their support. Some executives of other student groups announced that they would step down to distance themselves from the statement criticizing Israel. Some Harvard students publicly condemned their fellow students who issued the statement criticizing Israel.
Wall Street is a sector that Harvard students prefer to work in after graduation, so it was analyzed that they changed their stance due to concerns about disadvantages in employment.
It is said that Lina Workman, the student council president of New York University Law School, claimed that “Israel is fully responsible for this tremendous loss of life” and received a notice of job cancellation from a law firm where she was supposed to work.
By. Choi Yoon-Young
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