I hope this finds you well. I am a student mentioned in the article and am respectfully asking that you remove this post. I was out of town when my group signed and was not consulted. Being in posts/articles that mention students backtracking has made individuals believe an incorrect narrative. Thank you in advance.

On Friday, October 13, 2023 at 6:34:51 PM UTC-4, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/harvard-students-take-back-support-for-
> hamas/
>
> A flurry of Harvard University students and groups are desperately trying
> to backtrack on their support of a letter blaming Israel for the mass
> slaughter of its own people by Hamas terrorists — as some business titans
> seek to blacklist them from future jobs.
>
> Four of the initial 34 student organizations attached to the inflammatory
> statement have already withdrawn their support — while board members of
> other groups have quit to distance themselves.
>
> Late Tuesday, 17 other Harvard groups joined around 500 faculty and staff
> and 3,000 others in signing a counter-statement attacking the other
> groups’ letter as “completely wrong and deeply offensive,” according to
> the campus paper, the Harvard Crimson.
>
> A third letter from nearly 160 faculty members also ripped Harvard’s
> response to the scandal, writing that it “can be seen as nothing less than
> condoning the mass murder of civilians based only on their nationality.”
>
> Others in groups supporting the initial letter — which held “the Israeli
> regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” — quit while
> distancing themselves from any involvement.
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> “As a board member of a Harvard group that signed the statement on Israel,
> I think it was egregious and have resigned from my role,” Danielle
> Mikaelian tweeted Monday.
>
> “I am sorry for the pain this caused,” the law student continued. “My
> organization did not have a formal process, and I didn’t even see the
> statement until we had signed on.”
>
> Mikaelian added that she “prevented another student group I remain on the
> board of from signing on when I saw the statement.
>
> “This statement is not representative of my values, and my heart is with
> those impacted.”
>
> “I also want to make it clear that I know firsthand some of my fellow
> students are in this situation too,” Mikaelian wrote, noting: “I wasn’t
> the only board member who stepped down today.”
>
> Law student Mohini Tangri also tweeted that “many members had no say in
> whether their [organizations] signed” the letter.
>
> “Many weren’t even notified that their [organizations] were considering
> doing so,” she claimed.
>
> A number of student organizations have also put out statements in recent
> days announcing that they are rescinding their signatures from the
> controversial statement.
>
> In a statement posted to Instagram, Harvard Ghungroo said it “would like
> to formally apologize for co-signing the statement made by the Harvard
> Palestinian Committee and have formally retracted our signature.
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> “We would like to clarify that we stand in solidarity with both Israeli
> and Palestinian victims and families,” the group wrote.
>
> “Harvard Undergraduate Ghungroo strictly denounces and condemns the
> massacre propagated by the terrorist organization Hamas. We truly
> apologize for the insensitivity of the statement that was released
> recently.”
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> The Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Student Association also released a
> statement on Instagram expressing “regret” at signing the letter that “has
> been interpreted as a tacit support for the recent violent attacks in
> Israel.
>
> “We deplore the attacks that have taken the lives of hundreds of innocent
> civilians, including 10 Nepali students in Israel,” the student
> organization continued.
>
> “To ensure that our stance on the condemnation of violence by Hamas and
> support for a just peace remains clear, we retract our signature from the
> statement,” it concluded.
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> Harvard College Act on a Dream told the student paper that it only signed
> as “a result of miscommunication and a lack of due diligence.”
>
> “The endorsement of [the] statement in no way reflects their individual
> opinions about the ensuing violence in Palestine and Israel.”
>
> The statement released by the Harvard Palestinian Committee no longer
> lists the more than 30 student groups that had originally signed on to the
> statement, but rather says: “This statement was co-authored by a coalition
> of Palestine solidarity groups at Harvard.
>
> “For student safety, the names of all original signing organizations have
> been concealed at this time.”
>
> But the student organizations only seemed to have released their
> statements after billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman called for the
> university to release the names of the students in these groups so that
> they will not be hired by Wall Street.
>
> “I have been asked by a number of CEOs if Harvard would release a list of
> the members of each of the Harvard organizations that have issued the
> letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous acts to Israel, so
> as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their members,”
> Ackman, the billionaire founder of hedge fund giant Pershing Square
> Capital Management, wrote on his X social media account on Tuesday.
>
> “If, in fact, their members support the letter they have released, the
> names of the signatories should be made public so their views are publicly
> known.”
>
> Ackman, a Harvard grad who has a net worth of $3.5 billion, added: “One
> should not be able to hide behind a corporate shield when issuing
> statements supporting the actions of terrorists, who, we now learn, have
> beheaded babies, among other inconceivably despicable acts.”
>
> As the backlash raged, Harvard president Claudine Gay released a statement
> Tuesday saying: “Let there be no doubt that I condemn the terrorist
> atrocities perpetrated by Hamas.
>
> “Such inhumanity is abhorrent, whatever one’s individual views of the
> origins of longstanding conflicts in the region.
>
> “Let me also state, on this matter as on others, that while our students
> have the right to speak for themselves, no student group — not even 30
> student groups — speaks for Harvard University or its leadership.
>
> “We will all be well served in such a difficult moment by rhetoric that
> aims to illuminate and not inflame. And I appeal to all of us in this
> community of learning to keep this in mind as our conversations continue.”
>
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