Dear BOYCOTT UPENN fellow signers:

We want to update you on two items that were verified yesterday: 

1) UPenn staff are donating to an organization that accusing Israel of "genocide" and “Jewish supremacy" (names of staff members listed).

Our point of view per our Petition is that ALUMNI should not hire those whose values are inconsistent with their own or those of their firms. Researching candidates' social media footprints should be a critical part of the hiring process.

Per our Petition Action Item 4: 

     a.  Ensure your firm has an internally designated employee responsible for maintaining the full and growing list of value-offenders seeking roles. 

     b.  Train hiring managers on how to vet for values, and not just abilities and skills or other criteria important to the firm. 

     c.   Share methods across your firm for capturing all social media and news footprints when deciding on the values of potential hires or business partners.

2) UPenn Admisntration's Action Plan/Task Force "publicity stunts" reconfirmed.

Meanwhile, per our Petition introduction, UPenn continues to use publicity stunts hoping our Community believes the School is effectively combating anti-semitism.

Magill made sure the first report for the Task Force would be due by May 17, 2024. Any sense of urgency with that deadline?

And per the data in the attached article: "In her opening testimony, Magill touted the creation of a “task force on antisemitism” that would work in concert with a “student advisory group on the Jewish student experience.” 

University of Pennsylvania junior Noah Rubin, though, told National Review that the student group has yet to convene, and its first planned meeting — which was meant to take place Monday — was canceled.

“What we heard from Magill was that the task force was going to deal with all these issues,” he said, “but when people went to email her/antisemitism-taskforce@upenn.edu, they got an automated response saying the task force was working on it.”

There has not been any other form of communication, Rubin told NR, and Jewish students at Penn do not feel the situation on campus has gotten any better since Magill’s announcement or since her resignation.

“Since the task force started, I’ve actually taken a survey of Jewish students and asked them whether they’ve seen any improvements on campus, whether they feel safer, whether the situation has improved or gotten worse,” he said. “Every single response has said either that they do not feel safer and the situation has stayed the same or that it has gotten worse.”