# Plagiarism, Claudine Gay, a Zionists' wife, and Business Insider's German owner **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 10, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870 "2024-01-10T05:04:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![InfraBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infrablue/32/6366_2.png) [@InfraBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InfraBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/1 "2024-01-10T05:04:07Z")
Business Insider published a story about Bill Ackman’s wife, Neri Oxman, plagiarizing Wikipedia articles along with other texts, as a comparison with ousted Harvard President Claudine Gay’s plagiarism and Ackman’s push to remove her. Ackman went on the defensive and compelled BI’s German owner, Axel Springer, to review BI’s story, particularly “the motivation and the process leading up to the reporting.” Axel Springer has prompted his German employees to sign a mission statement affirming Israel’s right to exist, which itself is a negation of intellectual freedom. Germany’s infamous legacy in regard to its Jewish genocide in the early 20th Century impels many Germans to treat Jewish issues with kid gloves, obviating critical treatment of these issues. It will be interesting to see how this story develops. > **[Business Insider story on Harvard antagonist’s wife draws owner’s scrutiny](https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/01/08/neri-oxman-ackman-axel-springer-business-insider/?utm_campaign=wp_evening_edition&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter)** > > Axel Springer plans to review a Business Insider story about alleged plagiarism by Neri Oxman, wife of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman. > **[Academic celebrity Neri Oxman plagiarized from Wikipedia, scholars, a...](https://www.businessinsider.com/neri-oxman-plagiarize-wikipedia-mit-dissertation-2024-1)** > > A review of Neri Oxman's work found many instances of outright plagiarism — including directly from Wikipedia. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/2 "2024-01-10T10:18:41Z")
What is interesting about this? An idiot billionaire is too online and his wife is called out for old plagiarism, and he gets upset. Why should anyone care? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/3 "2024-01-10T10:53:10Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Why should anyone care? I didn’t read the linked articles, but I suspect we’re supposed to care because a Zionist is involved. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/4 "2024-01-10T14:26:06Z")
I think the Business Insider article was pointing out hypocrisy by Ackman in criticizing Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, for plagiarism (among other things) and pushing her to resign. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/5 "2024-01-10T14:52:39Z")
Don’t we already have this thread? ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/6 "2024-01-10T14:57:20Z")
I don’t know if there’s another thread, but I think that a business that makes its employees sign a loyalty oath to another country is a valid topic for discussion. Personally I find it chilling. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/7 "2024-01-10T15:03:21Z")
> [@ratatoskK](#): > > I think that a business that makes its employees sign a loyalty oath to another country is a valid topic for discussion. Personally I find it chilling. Interesting, but I don’t see what that has to do with the topic of discussions. Even the disjointed OP doesn’t make the claim that a business made its employees sign a “loyalty oath” to another country. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/8 "2024-01-10T15:19:11Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Why should anyone care? The WaPo article is paywalled, but the OP makes it clear that a Jewish person somewhere is rich and influential. And also that ze Germans aren’t critical enough of “Jewish issues.” Why aren’t you more upset? Why haven’t you been upset this whole time? What are you, a Zionist? ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/9 "2024-01-10T15:25:48Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > What are you, a Zionist? Why, yes. Yes I am. > [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > the OP makes it clear that a Jewish person somewhere is rich and influential. Oh, how _horrible_! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/10 "2024-01-10T15:27:55Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Why, yes. Yes I am. Thank God I was near my fainting chaise when I read this. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/11 "2024-01-10T16:13:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Thank God I was near my fainting chaise when I read this I apologize for my continued existence and any offense it may cause. _Checks notes_ Wait, no, no I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/12 "2024-01-10T16:16:39Z")
Plagiarism, Claudine Gay, a Zionists’ wife, and Business Insider’s German owner Even if the plot throws in zombies with straight As and an invasion by extraterrestrials, I’m not going to see that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/13 "2024-01-10T16:30:58Z")
How about a cook and a thief? ---
**Author:** ![InfraBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infrablue/32/6366_2.png) [@InfraBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InfraBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/14 "2024-01-10T18:37:32Z")
The idiot billionaire is Bill Ackman. He was the principle pusher to remove Claudine Gay as president of Harvard University because of her testimony that rubbed him the wrong way to a Congressional panel in regard to the 10/7 Hamas attack. He then lead the effort to uncover plagiarism committed by Gay in some of her scholarly work, all of which lead her to resign from her presidency. His wife is also culpable of plagiarism as Business Insider reported, this incensed Ackman who then went to BI’s owner, Axel Springer, with complaints of unethical journalism and threatened to bankrupt and liquidate the publication. Axel Springer has made his German employees sign a mission statement affirming Israel’s right to exist, which curtails discussion of this assertion by these employees. It will be interesting to see, one, how Springer deals with his American employees who he has not prompted to sign the aforementioned mission statement, and two, what measures Ackman will take to bankrupt and liquidate the publication. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/15 "2024-01-10T18:52:00Z")
Again, why is this interesting? Who cares? What is the relevance to the forum “politics and elections”? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/16 "2024-01-10T19:10:31Z")
> [@InfraBlue](#): > > His wife is also culpable of plagiarism as Business Insider reported,… > [@](#): > > Axel Springer has made his German employees sign a mission statement affirming Israel’s right to exist,… Seems to me that it’s possible to believe in Israel’s right to exist, _and_ that Bill Ackman is a hypocrite. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/17 "2024-01-10T19:13:34Z")
I can answer the second, it is not a #Politics & Elections thread. So off to IMHO I guess. FTR, very poorly written OP, I considered closing it. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/18 "2024-01-10T19:18:37Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > The WaPo article is paywalled, Here’s a gift link. > **[Business Insider story on Harvard antagonist’s wife draws owner’s scrutiny](https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/01/08/neri-oxman-ackman-axel-springer-business-insider/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzA0ODYyODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzA2MjQ1MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDQ4NjI4MDAsImp0aSI6ImM2OGE4OWE4LTI1ZGQtNDk0Yi1iMGVmLTdkYjlhNGUyNTA3ZCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9zdHlsZS9tZWRpYS8yMDI0LzAxLzA4L25lcmktb3htYW4tYWNrbWFuLWF4ZWwtc3ByaW5nZXItYnVzaW5lc3MtaW5zaWRlci8ifQ.xFpIRQ8a8kEAbJl6YVER4qsjqtO1APj4Uu-i-Bf7hZ8&itid=gfta)** > > Axel Springer plans to review a Business Insider story about alleged plagiarism by Neri Oxman, wife of billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman. ---
**Author:** ![InfraBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infrablue/32/6366_2.png) [@InfraBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InfraBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/19 "2024-01-10T21:06:03Z")
It’s interesting because of the issues involved. That _you_ in particular may not find this interesting is another matter. Many people care. This is political because the issues involve nations, politicians, and politics. ---
**Author:** ![InfraBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infrablue/32/6366_2.png) [@InfraBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InfraBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870/20 "2024-01-10T21:08:15Z")
Exactly. This is why it is interesting as to how Springer will handle this hot potato. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plagiarism-claudine-gay-a-zionists-wife-and-business-insiders-german-owner/995870.md?page=2)