Universities, which are usually quick to issue statements addressing pressing social concerns such as the death of George Floyd or the Dobbs decision on abortion, kept their lips sealed in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attacks on Israel. Their sluggish reaction to the Oct. 7 attacks, compounded with an unremitting barrage of anti-Israel student protests, incited a wave of anger and backlash by prominent donors and alumni, many of whom are Jewish.

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