Like many on Wall Street, the billionaire investor Bill Ackman is full of rage, fear, and sadness over the brutal and terrifying terrorist attack that Hamas unleashed on Israel. But unlike his fellow titans of finance, the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management — one of the world’s most powerful hedge funds — has spent the last few days taking his feelings out on a small group of students at Harvard.
Earlier this week, after 30 student groups at the university signed a deranged statement that blamed the Israeli government for the attack, Ackman responded on X, formerly Twitter, by demanding that Harvard — his alma mater — release the names of the students involved in the organizations so that he and other Wall Street executives could refrain from hiring them. “The names of the signatories should be made public,” Ackman fumed, “so their views are publicly known.”
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