From Jeff Childers

In another tragic friendly-fire incident, the dreaded scourge of ‘cancellation’ struck at home. NBC ran a story yesterday headlined, “Top law firm rescinds job offers to Ivy League students who signed Israel letters.” The headline is misleadingly ambiguous. The students signed an “anti-Israel” letter, or maybe a “pro-Hamas” letter.

After the Harvard Crimson published the pro-Hamas letter on October 10th, a series of corporate executives and public figures who have been training for years in cancel culture and woke virtue signaling leapt into action. According to NBC, just part of the response included:

— Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Neman tweeted that he would “like to know” which students signed the Harvard statement “so I know never to hire these people.”

— “Same,” EasyHealth CEO David Duel tweeted, replying to Neman.

— FabFitFun CEO Michael Broukhim echoed them, and tweeted, “We are in as well,” and, “Discriminating against terrorist supporters is the most comically easy decision I’ll ever have to make as a CEO.”

— Judge Matthew Solomson of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims reportedly said on LinkedIn that he would not let any of the students who signed the statements clerk for him.

— Prominent donors have cut ties with Harvard because it protected the students’ identities. The angry donors included the Wexner Foundation — co-founded by Leslie Wexner, the former CEO of Victoria’s Secret.

It looks like the CEO talk wasn’t just bluster. According to NBC, U.S. law giant Davis Polk sent out an internal email yesterday announcing it rescinded job offers to three law students from Harvard and Columbia universities who signed the pro-Hamas letters.

This must all be so confusing for these students. They thought they were playing Woke-opoly right, and virtue-signaled for all the right causes: race, check. Trans, check. Masks, check. Jabs, check. Ukraine, check. Palestine, check! But wait! They went one issue too far!

When the leftist rubber hit the progressive road, the pro-Palestine students went under the bus. Or something. You get the idea.