Hedge fund manager Ken Griffin has paused donations to Harvard University over how it handled antisemitism on campus since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, saying that his alma mater is now educating a bunch of “whiny snowflakes.”
The CEO and founder of the Citadel investing firm made the comments during a keynote discussion Tuesday at a conference hosted by the Managed Funds Association Network in Miami.
“Are we going to educate the future members of the House and Senate and the leaders of IBM? Or are we going to educate a group of young men and women who are caught up in a rhetoric of oppressor and oppressee and, ‘This is not fair,’ and just frankly whiny snowflakes?” Griffin said at the conference.
He continued to say that he’s “not interested in supporting the institution … until Harvard makes it very clear that they’re going to resume their role as educating young American men and women to be leaders, to be problem-solvers, to take on difficult issues.”
USA TODAY reached out to Harvard on Thursday for the Ivy League school’s response.