#Len Blavatnik

[nando161mando]

"Last month, members of the chat, including billionaire Len Blavatnik, held a Zoom call with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, at a time when a pro-Palestinian encampment was taking place at Columbia University in the city.

During the call, attendees spoke about making political donations to Adams, and about how the business leaders could urge Columbia's president and trustees to permit the mayor to send police on campus.

Some members of the chat offered to pay for private investigators to help police during the protests."

[ptseti]

Burna is employed by Atlantic, which is owned by Warner Music Group and has major shareholder Access Industries, owned by Len Blavatnik, and is managed by an all-white staff team. Traoré is not buying it.

Protect Traore ancestors

[soon-palestine]

Do you have a source for that Washington Post tweet with the list of billionaires funding that bill to change public opinion regarding Palestinian genocide. The one that included higher ups at Dell and Starbucks etc? I don't doubt it but I'd like to get more info and googling is NOT helping rn

according to the wp article :

it's a what's app chat group , here is te quote :

"People with direct access to the chat log’s contents supplied them to The Post. They shared the information on the condition of anonymity because the chat’s contents were meant to stay private. Members of the group verified the chat’s existence and their comments."

but the article included those names :

A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the group.

Business executives including Kind snack company founder Daniel Lubetzky, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, billionaire Len Blavatnik and real estate investor Joseph Sitt held a Zoom video call on April 26 with Mayor Eric Adams (D), about a week after the mayor first sent New York police to Columbia’s campus, a log of chat messages shows.

The chat was initiated by a staffer for billionaire and real estate magnate Barry Sternlicht

[..]

The messages describing the call with Adams were among thousands logged in a WhatsApp chat among some of the nation’s most prominent business leaders and financiers, including former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and Joshua Kushner, founder of Thrive Capital and brother of Jared Kushner, former president Donald Trump’s son-in-law.

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[palestinegenocide]

Now everyone hates Israel

This was a huge week in American Jewish political history.

First, the director of a movie about Auschwitz, the English director Jonathan Glazer, accepted an Oscar for the film by stating that his Jewishness should not be used to justify the slaughter of Gazans.

Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October 7 in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza — all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist?

In saying “We,” Glazer also spoke for his producer Len Blavatnik, a billionaire who stood silently behind him and who just months ago had joined the Harvard donor revolt for alleged antisemitic — actually pro-Palestinian speech — on campus. A revolt that toppled the Harvard president.

Glazer’s speech was followed four days later by the “momentous speech” by New York Senator Chuck Schumer, speaking as a Jew and calling on Netanyahu to hold new elections because his rightwing policies are hurting Israel. “As a lifelong supporter of Israel, it has become clear to me, the Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel,” said Schumer, the most powerful Jewish politician in American history.

Here too the Gaza slaughter figured largely. Schumer fears that the massive civilian death toll in Gaza, which causes him “anguish,” will cause Israel to become a “pariah” nation.

In coalition with far-right extremists like Ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, and as a result, [Netanyahu] has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows. Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah.

The first thing to observe about Schumer’s speech, and Glazer’s too, is that Palestinian lives are finally counting in American politics. The unbelievable onslaught on a captive people that caused Susan Abulhawa to somehow get in there and come back and tell us there’s a holocaust in Gaza that language cannot describe has at last registered for American politicians.

So just as Joe Biden said eight days ago that Netanyahu “cannot have another 30,000 Palestinians dead”– as if the first 30,000 were mere table stakes — those killings, now at least 31,700, are also cracking the conscience of the American Jewish community.

Schumer is at the center of the organized Jewish community. He has long put himself forward as the guardian of Israel– “a bellwether for the Jewish community, who has refrained from sharp criticism of the Israeli government” (as J Street put it)– and his speech has huge significance.

American Zionists are in complete crisis now. They know that Israel is already a pariah state in the eyes of the world. They know that you cannot destroy a territory in the genocidal manner that Israel has — and force the hand of the U.S. president in support of the genocide out of concern for his political donations, and topple Ivy League presidents who allow their students to criticize Israel — you can’t do these things without grave consequences.

Biden may lose Michigan because his hand was forced. American Jews who care about democracy in the U.S. are finally shaking loose. And Jews who see that corrupt Zionist influence is feeding antisemitic ideas about Jews are acting to openly criticize Israel.

Schumer acted out of pure desperation. He sees Biden being hurt politically if the Jewish community cannot pivot and condemn a genocide. He sees Israel becoming a “pariah” state.

There is today no difference between right-wing and left-wing Zionists inside the Democratic Party. They have all now gathered around the Schumer/Biden delusion that if you just get rid of Netanyahu, Israel will be able to curb the slaughter, pursue the two-state solution, and save the Jewish state.

So, we are seeing Zionism in an ongoing public crisis. Because Netanyahu won’t go. Or if he does go, he will be replaced by others who are equally or almost as warmongering and who will be able to do nothing to end the occupation. So Israel will just continue to be a pariah state. And the tsunami of boycotts, long predicted by Israel lovers, will really be upon us. Even Schumer said that the U.S. must restrict aid to Israel if it cannot stop slaughtering civilians.

This is a crisis of Jewish identity. Schumer again and again cited Jewish tradition and conscience as motivators for his speech. “What horrifies so many Jews especially is our sense that Israel is falling short of upholding these distinctly Jewish values that we hold so dear. We must be better than our enemies, lest we become them.”

However cynical you are about Jewish values and conscience — and I’m as cynical as they come — his speech represents a great wake-up call for Jews who care about human rights to take on the genocide-enablers in the U.S. Jewish community. Despite the love he expressed for Israel and the mythologies about its creation and supposed democracy, Schumer’s speech is historic and important on this ground.

Because as more than one critic of Schumer’s said this week, he is giving permission to others. The most powerful Jewish politician in U.S. history is saying, As a Jew I tell America, Israel is doing wrong. Yes, everyone hates Israel now!

So Schumer has opened the doors on the Jewish discussion that I and others in the American Jewish anti-Zionist community have long sought: How can we support a discriminatory, brutal state in our name as Jews over there when we absolutely oppose religious nationalism and persecution of minorities here?

This discussion will see the empowerment of a new generation of anti-Zionists, and their ultimate victory. Because the Jewish state will be unable to transform itself to suit American liberal values. And regardless of the political arrangements in coming years in Israel/Palestine — partition into two states, or one state — Israel’s transformation to pariah status is so well advanced now by its own actions that no Zionist will ultimately be able to save its racist apartheid constitution. And idealistic Jews here will help transform that land.

I’d add that in directing Israelis what to do– go have another election!– Schumer exposed a great secret of Zionism: It is an international Jewish ideology that will always cause confusion about national interest. Schumer could well argue that he was justified in directing Israelis because Israel interferes in our politics all the time, and as Netanyahu did in 2015. “Imagine if, I don’t know, some foreign leader who was ostensibly an ally of the United States, came here and gave an address before Congress that threw the American president under the bus on their key policy item of the times,” as a New York Jewish liberal Zionist put it in praising Schumer’s speech.” Can you imagine it?”

I can imagine just that because Schumer himself said after he voted against the Iran deal, he did so out of Israel’s interest not the American one.

So Zionism has always been a huge asterisk on American Jewish liberal values. This week that asterisk began to fall apart.

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A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the group. Business executives including Kind snack company founder Daniel Lubetzky, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, billionaire Len Blavatnik and real estate investor Joseph Sitt held a Zoom video call on April 26 with Mayor Eric Adams (D), about a week after the mayor first sent New York police to Columbia’s campus, a log of chat messages shows. During the call, some attendees discussed making political donations to Adams, as well as how the chat group’s members could pressure Columbia’s president and trustees to permit the mayor to send police to the campus to handle protesters, according to chat messages summarizing the conversation. ...The messages describing the call with Adams were among thousands logged in a WhatsApp chat among some of the nation’s most prominent business leaders and financiers, including former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and Joshua Kushner, founder of Thrive Capital and brother of Jared Kushner, former president Donald Trump’s son-in-law. .. The chat group formed shortly after the Oct. 7 attack, and its activism has stretched beyond New York, touching the highest levels of the Israeli government, the U.S. business world and elite universities. Titled “Israel Current Events,” the chat eventually expanded to about 100 members, the chat log shows. More than a dozen members of the group appear on Forbes’s annual list of billionaires; others work in real estate, finance and communications. Overall, the messages offer a window into how some prominent individuals have wielded their money and power in an effort to shape American views of the Gaza war, as well as the actions of academic, business and political leaders — including New York’s mayor. ..Months before the protests at Columbia this spring, some chat members attended private briefings with former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett; Benny Gantz, a member of the Israeli war cabinet; and Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Herzog, according to chat records....From the start of the chat, members sought guidance and information from officials in the Israeli government. .. In the chat, discussion turned to the fact that Columbia had to grant Adams permission before he could send city police to the campus. One member asked if the group could do anything to pressure Columbia trustees to cooperate with the mayor. In reply, former congressman Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), CEO of the American Jewish Committee, shared a PDF of a letter his organization had sent that day to Columbia President Minouche Shafik calling on her to “shut these protests down.”

Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show

A WhatsApp chat started by some wealthy Americans after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack reveals their focus on Mayor Eric Adams and their work to shape U.S. opinion of the Gaza war.

By Hannah Natanson and 

Emmanuel Felton

May 16, 2024 at 3:15 p.m. EDT

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: September 19, 2018

Lyrics:

Come, let's watch the rain as it's falling down

Yo, let's do that song for Peep

Sunlight on your skin when I'm not around

Shit don't feel the same when you're out of town

So come, let's watch the rain as it's falling down, yeah

Come, let's watch the rain as it's falling down

Sunlight on your skin when I'm not around

Shit don't feel the same when you're out of town (oh-oh, oh-oh)

So come, let's watch the rain as it's falling down (oh-oh, oh-oh)

Rain keeps fallin', tears keep fallin'

Rain keeps fallin', tears keep fallin'

Darlin', your love is like walking a bed of nails

And I just can't keep on fightin'

Oh, oh, oh

Come, let's watch the rain as it's falling down (oh-oh, oh-oh)

Sunlight on your skin when I'm not around (oh-oh, oh-oh)

Shit don't feel the same when you're out of town (oh-oh, oh-oh)

So come, let's watch the rain as it's falling down (oh-oh, oh-oh)

His name will live, brother

Bro, I got, I feel hella shitty because it's like, yo

Like, if I would have known he was so cool

And it's like, yo, if I would have watched interviews sooner, bro we were so alike

It's unfortunate because it's like, yo

When people die, that's when we like 'em, you know?

'Cause your remorse kinda makes you check 'em out

Darlin', your love is like walking a bed of nails

And I just can't keep on fighting

Oh, oh, oh

Songwriter:

Come, let's watch the rain as it's falling down (oh-oh, oh-oh)

Sunlight on your skin when I'm not around (oh-oh, oh-oh)

Shit don't feel the same when you're out of town (oh-oh, oh-oh)

Come, let's watch the rain as it's falling down (oh-oh, oh-oh)

Michael Len Williams / Makonnen Sheran / Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy / Gustav Elijah Ahr / Valentin Leon Blavatnik / Aaron Wesley Jackson

SongFacts:

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[archercrosley]

Len Blavatnik

Let’s talk about Len Blavatnik. He’s the latest Harvard jackass to withdraw economic support from his university because Claudine Gay had the audacity to permit free-speech on her campus. Say, I thought free speech was what this country was about? Apparently, the Founding Fathers must have felt the same way because they enshrined free-speech into the first amendment. Not that the first…

[bisluthq]

I was thinking oh maybe if Taylor moves anywhere in Europe she'll get more privacy and live a normal life and then I remember fucking ISIS was after her in Vienna

Privacy is also different to security. Taylor hasn’t been papped in Sweden fwiw although we know she’s been there a bunch and seemingly she’s laid low enough that there aren’t many fan encounters. That doesn’t mean she leaves her security at home when she goes to Sweden.

we were talking about the ultra mega wealthy businessmen and like… those dudes have privacy. I don’t think any of us can recognize like Len Blavatnik or Mukesh Ambani or any of the Koch siblings (not like really right like they’re a bit more socialite adjacent but still if you walked past one like would you know who that is enough to really think about it?) or Colin Huang. You’ve probably to maybe seen the names, you may well have seen a picture, but at lunch at a fancy place even where they legitimately could be like you wouldn’t be like “wow that’s one of the richest men in the world” unless you’re in one of those Reelshort thingies where they say that at the gala or charity auction lol. You’d not recognize them. That doesn’t mean they or their kids walk around with no security.

they are serious targets for naughty people???

[wisdom-trends]

Billionaire Blavatnik courted to take Daily Telegraph stake | Money News

The billionaire who has bankrolled DAZN, the sports-streaming service, is being courted to take a stake in The Daily Telegraph alongside the newspaper’s new American majority-owners. Sky News has learnt that Sir Len Blavatnik, whose holding company Access Entertainment owns assets in Britain, including the Theatre Royal Haymarket, has been approached by RedBird Capital Partners about becoming a…

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"体育界Netflix"豪掷重金拿下澳式橄榄球联盟与全国橄榄球联赛转播权 揭秘幕后神秘亿万富豪

Blavatnik以故乡敖德萨命名其豪华游艇 (Getty: David M Benett) 伦敦街头曾行驶着一辆不走寻常路的观光巴士，它的路线既不通向大本钟，也不驶往白金汉宫。 这辆巴士载着乘客穿行于伦敦最昂贵的豪宅区，在寡头和亿万富翁的宅邸前停留。每到一站，导游便会讲解这些房产主人——常位列全球百大富豪——的财富发家史。 伦敦从不缺少寡头，但在肯辛顿宫花园大街，你或许会遇见他们中最富有的一位：Len Blavatnik。 Blavatnik的伦敦宅邸与肯辛顿宫比邻 (Supplied: Stanhope…

[therepublicreport]

Saudi Arabia and Sports Network DAZN Close to Deal

Saudi Arabia, long on the lookout for a global platform to showcase its sporting ambitions, is nearing the end of its search. The Gulf kingdom is close to acquiring up to a 10 percent stake in DAZN, a sports-only network that has been privately funded by the billionaire businessman Len Blavatnik, according to three people familiar with the discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity because…

[affairsmastery]

𝐑𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐡’𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐩 is set to sell Foxtel to British streaming giant DAZN for $2.1 billion. As part of the deal, News Corp retains a 6% stake in DAZN and a board seat, while DAZN secures streaming rights to Australia’s AFL and NRL.

This move underscores News Corp's strategy to streamline its portfolio amidst rising competition from global digital platforms. The deal values Foxtel at seven times its 2024 earnings, a surprising win for one of News Corp’s weaker assets, according to analysts.

Owned by billionaire Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, DAZN is a global sports streaming powerhouse, broadcasting elite sports like European football, boxing, and baseball across North America, Europe, and Asia.

[itsnothingbutluck]

Diese jüdische Familie regiert heimlich die Welt! Viele erfolgreiche Geschäftsleute jüdischer Herkunft haben eine Schlüsselrolle in Branchen wie Finanzen, Technologie, Unterhaltung und mehr gespielt. Während wir die Tiefen der reichsten jüdischen Persönlichkeiten der Welt erforschen, entdecken wir eine Mischung aus Leistung, Widerstandsfähigkeit und Innovation. Von bahnbrechenden Wirtschaftsführern bis hin zu scharfsinnigen Investoren haben diese Persönlichkeiten nicht nur beispiellosen finanziellen Erfolg erzielt, sondern auch unauslöschliche Spuren in der Philanthropie und verschiedenen globalen Branchen hinterlassen! Jim Simons Stephen A. Schwartzman Len Blavatnik Gebrüder Wertheimer Michael Dell Michael Bloomberg Larry Ellison Larry Page und Sergey Brin Mark Zuckerberg Steve Ballmer

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Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show

A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the group.

Business executives including Kind snack company founder Daniel Lubetzky, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, billionaire Len Blavatnik and real estate investor Joseph Sitt held a Zoom video call on April 26 with Mayor Eric Adams (D), about a week after the mayor first sent New York police to Columbia’s campus, a log of chat messages shows. During the call, some attendees discussed making political donations to Adams, as well as how the chat group’s members could pressure Columbia’s president and trustees to permit the mayor to send police to the campus to handle protesters, according to chat messages summarizing the conversation.

One member of the WhatsApp chat group told The Post he donated $2,100, the maximum legal limit, to Adams that month. Some members also offered to pay for private investigators to assist New York police in handling the protests, the chat log shows — an offer a member of the group reported in the chat that Adams accepted. The New York Police Department is not using and has not used private investigators to help manage protests, a spokeswoman for City Hall said.

The messages describing the call with Adams were among thousands logged in a WhatsApp chat among some of the nation’s most prominent business leaders and financiers, including former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and Joshua Kushner, founder of Thrive Capital and brother of Jared Kushner, former president Donald Trump’s son-in-law.

People with direct access to the chat log’s contents supplied them to The Post. They shared the information on the condition of anonymity because the chat’s contents were meant to stay private. Members of the group verified the chat’s existence and their comments.

The chat was initiated by a staffer for billionaire and real estate magnate Barry Sternlicht — who never joined directly, instead communicating through the staffer, according to chat messages and a person close to Sternlicht. In an Oct. 12 message, one of the first sent in the group, the staffer posting on behalf of Sternlicht told the others the goal of the group was to “change the narrative” in favor of Israel, partly by conveying “the atrocities committed by Hamas … to all Americans.”

Israel estimates 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. In the months since the war began, the death toll in Gaza has risen above 35,000, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

The chat group formed shortly after the Oct. 7 attack, and its activism has stretched beyond New York, touching the highest levels of the Israeli government, the U.S. business world and elite universities. Titled “Israel Current Events,” the chat eventually expanded to about 100 members, the chat log shows. More than a dozen members of the group appear on Forbes’s annual list of billionaires; others work in real estate, finance and communications.

Overall, the messages offer a window into how some prominent individuals have wielded their money and power in an effort to shape American views of the Gaza war, as well as the actions of academic, business and political leaders — including New York’s mayor.

“He’s open to any ideas we have,” chat member Sitt, founder of the retail chain Ashley Stewart and the global real estate company Thor Equities, wrote April 27, the day after the group’s Zoom call with Adams. “As you saw he’s ok if we hire private investigators to then have his police force intel team work with them.”

Sitt declined to comment through a spokeswoman.

A half-dozen prominent members of the group confirmed on the record their participation in the chat. Multiple people familiar with the group confirmed the names of other members.

Cypriot Israeli real estate billionaire Yakir Gabay wrote in a statement shared by a spokesperson that he joined the group because he wanted to “share support at a difficult and painful time,” to aid the victims of Hamas attacks, and to “try and correct the false and misleading information intentionally spread worldwide to deny or cover up the suffering caused by Hamas.”

Asked about the Zoom meeting with chat group members, the mayor’s office did not address it directly, instead sharing a statement from Deputy Mayor Fabien Levy noting that New York police entered Columbia’s campus twice in response to “specific written requests” from university leadership. “Any suggestion that other considerations were involved in the decision-making process is completely false,” Levy said. He added, “The insinuation that Jewish donors secretly plotted to influence government operations is an all too familiar antisemitic trope that the Washington Post should be ashamed to ask about, let alone normalize in print.”

Adams demonstrated a willingness to send law enforcement to deal with campus protesters from the beginning. He sent police to Columbia’s campus to disperse pro-Palestinian demonstrators April 18, at the university’s request — about a day after protesters erected their Gaza solidarity encampment. Officers arrested more than 100 protesters. The mayor has subsequently alleged that student activists were affected by “outside influences” — and that police intervention was needed to prevent “children” from being “radicalized.”

Both he and Columbia’s president have since drawn criticism — but also support — for involving police, adding to a fraught stretch for Adams, who is up for reelection in 2025 and faces an FBI corruption investigation into whether his 2021 campaign received illegal donations from Turkey. Adams has defended that campaign, saying he held it to “the highest ethical standards.”

Four days after chat members held the video call with Adams, student protesters occupied a campus building and Columbia’s president invited police back to campus to clear the building. Officers removed and arrested dozens of protesters, pushing, striking and dragging students in the process, The Post reported. One officer accidentally fired his gun.

Months before the protests at Columbia this spring, some chat members attended private briefings with former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett; Benny Gantz, a member of the Israeli war cabinet; and Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Herzog, according to chat records.

Members of the group also worked with the Israeli government to screen a roughly 40-minute film showing footage compiled by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) — titled “Bearing Witness to the October 7 Massacre” — to audiences in New York City. The film portrays killings committed by Hamas. A chat member asked for help from other members to show the film at universities; it was later screened at Harvard, a showing chat member Ackman helped facilitate, attended and promoted publicly.

Sternlicht declined to comment on the record, although a person close to him — speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the chat grouppublicly — confirmed the real estate tycoon initiated the chat. Other members of the chat, including Ackman and Schultz, confirmed their membership.

A spokesman said that Ackman had not participated in the chat since Jan. 10, adding that Ackman never spoke to Adams about the Columbia protests or donated to Adams’s campaign, although Ackman “likes and is supportive of the Mayor.” Joshua Kushner declined to comment.

On Oct. 12, a staffer for Sternlicht relayed a message from his boss outlining the group’s mission: While Israel worked to “win the physical war,” the chat group’s members would “help win the war” of U.S. public opinion by funding an information campaign against Hamas. The campaign was referred to in the chat as “Facts for Peace.”

The news site Semafor reported in November that Sternlicht was launching a $50 million anti-Hamas media campaign with various Wall Street and Hollywood billionaires. The people involved, per Semafor’s reporting, include some members of the WhatsApp chat, a review by The Post found. The chat messages, the contents of which have never before been reported, appear to reveal the start of the campaign, as well as separate pro-Israel activities undertaken later by chat members. It is unclear to what extent the chat group and media campaign overlapped.

Some of the media campaign’s activities were public, including its website and Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and X accounts, which together attracted more than 170,000 followers.

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Doadores estão abandonando Harvard

O bilionário Len Blavatnik’s, que entregou 270 milhões de dólares para Harvard em sua ultima doação (em 2018 ele tinha doado outros 200 milhões para a escola de medicina de Harvard), anunciou o cancelamento do donativo depois do depoimento da reitora Claudine Gay no Congresso se recusando a condenar o genocídio de judeus. Blavatnik nasceu na Ucrânia, estudou na Harvard Business School e fez uma…