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The relevant portion of the letter since the summary emits what the law firm is mad about:
On Oct. 10, The Harvard Crimson, one of the university’s student-run news publications, reported that more than 30 Harvard student groups signed on to a letter that said they held Israel “entirely responsible” for “all unfolding violence” in the conflict
Additional violence at this point, seems to me that's on Israel. You don't get to use self defense to kill your attacker and then also go kill your attacker's family and friends, lay waste to their home. A disproportionate response exceeds the scope of the cassus bellum, and thereby becomes unjust itself.
Doesn’t sound like a place you’d want to work anyway
Of course not, law firms are terrible. But they pay decent and in general law is a well earning field
Institutions of higher learning are only allowed to pump out cogs for the Machine, not educated people who can look at facts and decide how to act.
Fuck Davis Polk for doing this shit.
School is what you make of it. But generally when you're coming out of a top law school and going to work at a place like this, you know what you're getting into, you know you're getting in bed with corporate devils who's only motive is money and power.
These are people who went to Harvard Law School. I imagine they will be fine.
Just freedom of speech in action, you can say what you want but you're tied to the consequences of what you say. No one did anything wrong here, students expressed a controversial viewpoint and a workplace expressed that they did not want to bring that into their office--it's fine. They are Ivy League law school grads, something tells me it will be okay.
Where did you go to school that allowed you to be so enlightened and free?
I'm old so remember a time when a general arts degree was a great way to be able to get a good job in a field that one enjoyed.
Just a reminder, the architects of the migrant concentration camps are all doing fine.
These kids signed a letter expressing a political opinion and are getting harmed. People who abducted children and placed them into concentration camps are doing fine. One is exercising a basic right the other is a crime against humanity.
Does anyone have a better representation of the original Harvard letter and who signed. Where I am confused is that the authoring group is the "Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee" and co-signed by 33 other Harvard student organizations. (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/10/psc-statement-backlash/)
So how are lawyers and other graduate degree candidates get put under this. I can't tell if folks are more fairly being punished by explicit signature, or more inferred to be a part of it by affiliation.