With Harvard University President Claudine Gay mired in controversy over anti-Semitism on campus and mounting evidence that she engaged in serial plagiarism, donors to the institution have responded differently to the controversies.
The list of donors who’ve pledged to pull their funding has steadily grown, with billionaire Len Blavatnik emerging late this year as the latest to announce that he would be pausing all contributions to Harvard over its treatment of anti-Semitism. Blavatnik’s family foundation had previously given the university at least $270 million.
Blavatnik’s decision to pull donations comes as one Wall Street executive said that “half of Wall Street” will be halting donations to some of America’s most powerful universities to protest how the institutions have responded to anti-Semitism and pro-Palestinian protests in the wake of the October 7th terrorist…
