Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and his family will no longer donate to the University of Pennsylvania, his alma mater, the latest blow to the Ivy League school from a donor and alumni revolt over antisemitism on campus.
Mr. Huntsman said in a message to Penn President Liz Magill that the Huntsman Foundation “will close its checkbook on all future giving to Penn” after three generations of support from the family, citing the university’s silence in the face of “historic Hamas evil.”
Mr. Huntsman, also a former U.S. ambassador to Russia and China, said his “siblings join me in this rebuke.” The University of Pennsylvania touched off an alumni uprising last month after hosting the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, which featured speakers who have called for the destruction of Israel.
“Foreshadowing Hamas’s massacre, speakers at the gathering — hosted by various university departments and affiliates — advocated ethnic cleansing of Jews, referred to them as ‘European settlers,’ and repeated various blood libels,” he wrote. She acknowledged that the Palestine Writes festival held Sept. 22-24 featured speakers “with a public history of speaking out viciously against the Jewish people.”
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