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Columbia University faced a wave of fury over antisemitism on campus from billionaire donors Monday — with one calling pro-Palestinian mobs on the campus “f—ing crazy.” New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, a Columbia graduate, said he was stopping donations immediately and charged the college with failing to keep its Jewish students safe. Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman, a business school graduate, said he would stick with a stop on donations which began shortly after the October 7 Hamas massacres.Sources told The Post that other billionaires, including industrialist Len Blavatnik may also consider pulling back as the campus is rocked by...

Billionaire hedge-fund manager Leon Cooperman nearly burst into tears Thursday over the future of America. Cooperman was talking about stocks he is invested in, noting he owns Microsoft but isn’t buying any more because of its price. That’s when Cooperman shifted gears to talk about his book and criticized Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s progressive outlook. “I’ve lived the American dream. I’m trying to convince people like Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and AOC, don’t move away from capitalism. Capitalism is the best system. I get choked up when I talk about it because basically my father came to America at...

Billionaire hedge fund titan Leon Cooperman says the Clinton Cash revelations about the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton’s constant bashing of hedge funds have cost her his support in 2016. “Just read about the stuff with the Clinton initiative. To me this is an unbelievable shakedown,” Cooperman told CNN Money’s Cristina Alesci. Cooperman says Hillary Clinton’s trashing of those who make their living from hedge funds is hypocritical—and he’s had it. “I don’t need anybody crapping all over what I do for a living,” said Cooperman. “[She] hangs out with all these people in Martha’s Vineyard and in the Hamptons...