‘Moral relativism has fueled the university’s race to the bottom,’ former Utah governor and Republican presidential candidate tells Penn president
Jon Huntsman, the Republican former governor of Utah who served as U.S. ambassador to China under President Barack Obama and to Russia under Donald Trump, said his family will no longer donate to his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, over its “silence” to the attack by Hamas against Israel last weekend.
— Excerpt from Jon Huntsman Jr.’s letter to University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill Huntsman blasted the school’s “silence in the face of reprehensible and historic Hamas evil against the people of Israel,” which he termed “a new low.”“Silence is antisemitism, and antisemitism is hate, the very thing higher ed was built to obviate,” Huntsman wrote in his letter.
“It took less than two weeks to go from the Palestine Writes Literary Festival on UPenn’s campus to the barbaric slaughter and kidnapping of Israelis,” wrote Rowan, who is chairman of the board of advisers at Wharton, Penn’s highly ranked business school. “I, and this university, are horrified by and condemn Hamas’s terrorist assault on Israel and their violent atrocities against civilians. There is no justification — none — for these heinous attacks …”Sunday’s statement from Magill was more forceful than the initial message that was circulated from her office last Tuesday decrying “the horrific assault on Israel.”
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