Students at Harvard protesting for an end to the genocide and divestment from Israel. (Photo credit: MSN)

Prominent Zionist extremists such as Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, and Shaun Maguire of Sequoia Capital regularly threaten students who protest in support of Palestine. Claiming that their future job prospects will be affected.

They allude that they will see to it that these students face difficulties in securing future positions in the world of work.

I call them extremists because that is what they certainly are on the issue of Palestine and Israel – none of their views on that topic would be considered reasonable or rational – by, anyone reasonable or rational.

They do not believe in an equally sovereign Palestinian state along any borders.

Maguire was recently peddling the anti-Palestinian racist trope that it was the Palestinians who started the war/fighting between Zionist Jews and Palestinians, which is an egregious re-writing of history and totally disregards the fact that it was Zionist Jews who started this in 1948, by unilaterally declaring an invented state of Israel inside Palestine, and then inflicted the Nakba on the Palestinians.

Ackman is not far behind on the barometer of Zionist extremist views, last week he tweeted to say that the students protesting at Harvard and Penn were Hamas.

Their outlandish and misguided threats of harming the future job prospects of students, often at top universities, defies logic or facts. The jobs market is a candidate driven market, where companies are forever struggling to secure top recruits across all levels.

The data simply doesn’t back their extremist positions.

Recent polls have shown, and as has been the case for many years now, that C-Suite executives at top companies are most concerned about finding the right talent, to drive their businesses forward and help execute strategy.

“The number one topic making executives uneasy is talent – nearly 60% of survey respondents said finding, hiring, and upskilling workers was among their top two concerns when looking at long-term cost-management strategies” – Fortune magazine based on Poll by BCG (Boston Consulting Group).

So, while one or two leaders may come out and pander to Sorkin’s racist, ill-informed and misguided folly, due to their reflexive support for Israel no matter what it does – the reality is, these are the students who will be the top talent and leaders of the future, and engaging with them is the only way to ensure companies are not losing out.

Those making loud noises that companies and CEO’s won’t hire people who are protesting, is nothing but a form of harassment and bullying.

It is the candidates who have the choice, and they should avoid going to work for any company, CEO or senior executive that has overtly supported this genocide or made these vacuous threats.

The likes of Ackman and Maguire are actually doing great harm to the portfolio of companies they are involved with because students will avoid them too.