Israel war: Bil­lion­aire Ron Laud­er to yank UPenn fund­ing over anti­semitism con­cerns

Bil­lion­aire Ronald Laud­er, heir to the Estée Laud­er cos­met­ics empire, will pull out from fund­ing the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia over con­cerns with its response to anti­semitism after the dead­ly Hamas ter­ror attack against Israel.
The 79-year-old for­mer Unit­ed States ambas­sador to Aus­tria is cut­ting finan­cial sup­port to UPenn bar­ring the Ivy League insti­tu­tion being more sup­port­ive of Israel. Laud­er, a Repub­li­can megadonor and pres­i­dent of the World Jew­ish Con­gress, an inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tion, pre­vi­ous­ly said in a let­ter to UPenn he would “re-exam­ine” his dona­tions.
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“I’ve spent the last 40 years of my life fight­ing anti­semitism all over the world,” Laud­er said Mon­day after­noon in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., at a Her­itage Foun­da­tion event on the U.S.-Israel rela­tion­ship. “I nev …