Billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman has threatened to discontinue giving to Columbia University due to the school's stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, branding students who oppose the Jewish state as having "s–t for brains."
In an interview with Fox Business' Liz Claman on Wednesday, Cooperman—who is of Polish-Jewish descent—was questioned about his opinions regarding the student protests at his former school and comparable actions at other Ivy League colleges.
"We have one reliable ally in the Middle East — that's Israel. We only have one democracy in the Middle East — that's Israel, okay? And we have one economy tolerant of different people — gays, lesbians, etc. And that's Israel," the 80-year-old chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors, a New York-based investment firm with over $3.3 billion in assets, continued.
He continued by threatening to stop giving to the university until he witnessed a "change" from the administration, which up until this point had not denounced a tenured professor who had described the terror operations carried out by Hamas against Israel as "awesome."
