Bank of America chief Brian Moynihan raises eyebrows by taking on chancellor role for Corporation of Brown University

Brian Moynihan has his hands full running Bank of America, the nation’s second largest lender, which is why he raised some eyebrows in July when he took on the volunteer position as chancellor of the Corporation of Brown University, the governing body of his alma mater.Those eyebrows got even wider when Brown took idiotic wokeness to new levels.We all know universities have become a hotbed of left-wing, Marxist activism, with a heavy dose of antisemitism as war rages in Gaza and Israel rightly protects its citizens following the Oct.7 massacre.

Leaders at Penn and Harvard have lost their jobs for failing to crack down on Jew haters on campus, which makes what’s going down at Brown so odd.The Brown Corporation will soon vote on whether Brown’s $6 billion-plus endowment should divest from companies that do business not with dictatorships like Iran or Venezuela, but the one true democracy in the Middle East, Israel.That the vote to economically harm an ally of this country and a multi-ethnic democracy is taking place in mid-October, nearly a year to the day since the slaughter of innocent Israelis — and Americans — near Gaza only adds to the lack of common sense and plain old decency of this spectacle.That a major bank CEO is part of a move to appease campus radicals who apparently believe the killing of innocents is justified makes it all the more bizarre.Defenders of Moynihan say his involvement in the mess is more nuanced, which I will address in a moment.

That said, I’m not totally surprised that he’s involved even tangentially in this travesty given his history of caving to woke forces.As I point out in my book “Go Woke Go Broke; The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America,” some of Moynihan’s greatest woke hits as CEO include rationalizing the social-justice riots following the killing of George Floyd as a byproduct of a country that is systematically racist, or in his muddled verbiage: “The protests are about not having t...