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PFIZER CEO SLAMS HARVARD, MIT, AND PENN LEADERS FOR THEIR ‘DESPICABLE’ TESTIMONY
ABOUT ANTISEMITISM AND GENOCIDE


TWO OF THE UNIVERSITY LEADERS REFUSED TO SAY THAT CALLING FOR THE GENOCIDE OF
JEWS WAS AGAINST THEIR SCHOOLS’ POLICIES, SAYING IT DEPENDED ON THE CONTEXT.

BY
Simone Foxman
 AND 
Bloomberg
December 06, 2023 5:17 PM EST

Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla slammed testimonies by the heads of three
top American universities for failing to “condemn racist, antisemitic, hate
rhetoric” while speaking in front of members of congress Tuesday.

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Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla slammed testimonies by the heads of three
top American universities for failing to “condemn racist, antisemitic, hate
rhetoric” while speaking in front of members of congress Tuesday.



Testimony by the presidents of Harvard University, the University of
Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology “was one of the most
despicable moments in the history of U.S. academia,” Bourla said in a post on X,
formerly known as Twitter.



Harvard’s Claudine Gay, Penn’s Liz Magill and MIT President Sally Kornbluth
testified about efforts to combat antisemitism on their campuses in the wake of
the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, which is designated a terrorist group by
the US and European Union. The presidents faced criticism by lawmakers, students
and alumni, including financiers Cliff Asness and Bill Ackman, after refusing to
say that calling for the genocide of Jews was against their schools’ policies.
Magill and Gay said it depended on the context.

Bourla, who in 2020 struck an agreement with Israeli prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu to use Israel as a test case for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, said his
grandparents, aunt and uncle, perished at Auschwitz. 



“I was wondering if their deaths would have provided enough ‘context’ to these
presidents to condemn the Nazis’ antisemitic propaganda,” he added, alongside a
picture of his aunt, Graciela. He said she was killed in the death camp at the
age of 17. “Unfortunately, no pictures of my grandparents and uncle survived. I
still wonder what they looked like,” he added.





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