But as an American business leader condemning Hamas’s attacks, he said, he felt surprisingly lonely.
“I was disappointed that fewer leaders than I anticipated spoke out emphatically, clearly and with moral clarity on this issue,” Mr. Karp said.
Some business leaders made donations to humanitarian organizations and pointed their employees to company-sponsored mental health resources.
“No company does business in Gaza — as opposed to, say, in Russia, where there are 1,500 major companies doing business,” he said, comparing this war with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“The dynamics in the Middle East have always been difficult and complex,” he wrote.
Persons:
Brad Karp, Paul, Weiss, Roe, Wade, George Floyd, ” Mr, Karp, ’ ”, Iliya Rybchin, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Sonnenfeld, “, ”, Joelle Emerson, Andrew Ward, Gabe Zichermann, Bud Light, David Solomon, Goldman Sachs, David Zaslav, ” David Barrett, We’re, Barrett
Organizations:
” Company, Hamas, Fortune, Yale School of Management, Lehigh University’s College of Business, Warner Bros, ” JPMorgan
Locations:
Israel, American, Gaza, Russia, Ukraine, Tel Aviv