Pfizer chief govt Albert Bourla slammed testimonies by the heads of three prime American universities for failing to “condemn racist, antisemitic, hate rhetoric” whereas talking in entrance of members of congress Tuesday.
Testimony by the presidents of Harvard College, the College of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise “was one of the most despicable moments in the history of U.S. academia,” Bourla stated in a put up on X, previously often known as Twitter.
Harvard’s Claudine Homosexual, Penn’s Liz Magill and MIT President Sally Kornbluth testified about efforts to fight antisemitism on their campuses within the wake of the Oct. 7 assault on Israel by Hamas, which is designated a terrorist group by the US and European Union. The presidents confronted criticism by lawmakers, college students and alumni, together with financiers Cliff Asness and Invoice Ackman, after refusing to say that calling for the genocide of Jews was in opposition to their faculties’ insurance policies. Magill and Homosexual stated it trusted the context.
Bourla, who in 2020 struck an settlement with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make use of Israel as a test case for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, stated 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 an image of his aunt, Graciela. He stated she was killed within the demise camp on the age of 17. “Unfortunately, no pictures of my grandparents and uncle survived. I still wonder what they looked like,” he added.
