Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer quits Harvard board in protest of student letter

A quick google told me Harvard's student body is around 25% Jewish [Apparently it is only 5.3%, I have my doubts because Jewish people are too successful in the face of adversity for their numbers to be that low] for anyone wondering. No idea what the campus atmosphere is like during all this but it can't be good.

Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer and his wife are resigning their posts on the executive board of Harvard's Kennedy School in protest of school President Claudine Gay's belated lukewarm response to the student letter blaming Israel for the massacre committed by Hamas terrorists on Saturday.

Ofer, the shipping and chemicals magnate whose net worth was valued by Forbes at $14 billion as of Thursday, said that he and his wife were quitting the board, according to the Hebrew-language news site TheMarker.

The Ofer family is one of the wealthiest in Israel. The late patriarch, Sammy Ofer, derived most of his wealth from his ownership stake in Israel Chemicals as well as ZIM, the cargo shipping service.

Idan and Batia Ofer jointly own a majority stake in Israel Corp. and Kenon Holdings, which was spun off from Israel Corp.

Quote from the student letter in case anyone thought it was milquetoast -

“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” the letter states, adding: “The apartheid regime is the only one to blame. Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years.”