Calls are growing for the presidents of Harvard, UPenn and MIT to resign today over their “extremely disturbing” testimonies on anti-Semitism, in which they said, among other things, that calls for the genocide of Jews on their campuses were allowed.
The three women stunned lawmakers yesterday at a congressional hearing on anti-Semitism on campus, where they refused to dismiss calls for genocide against Jews as “intimidation” and said such hate speech does not violate their codes of conduct.
Today, students from the schools, along with some of the shocked Republicans at the hearing, say it is clear that all three should resign.
The boards of each school – which ultimately decide whether the women will remain in their positions – have yet to make their positions clear.
And while donors including Bill Ackman have expressed disgust at the comments, other prominent alumni and donors such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have remained silent on the matter.
Harvard President Claudine Gay yesterday at congressional hearing where she said calling for genocide of Jews does not violate the school's code of conduct
Rep. Elise Stefanik, who led yesterday's questioning of the three school leaders, said their comments amounted to “demonstrated moral turpitude”
The Harvard Board of Overseers has yet to respond to questions about Dr. Gay, just like the Alumni Association. UPenn and MIT have been quiet for a while.
Representative Elise Stefanik (who was the most aggressive in questioning the trio yesterday), denounced the “moral turpitude” of their answers.
“I have been in some very high-profile congressional hearings over the years and I have never witnessed the pathetic moral turpitude displayed by the witnesses, the three university presidents of Harvard, Mitt and Penn.
“I asked the question in such a way that it was an easy yes, that calling for genocide of the Jews is in fact against their policy and code of conduct when it comes to bullying and harassment.
'Their answers were pathetic. I was so shocked, Harris, and what was probably the most tragic aspect of the hearing for me was that there were a number of Jewish students from those schools sitting in the audience behind them and just looking in fear as they listened to the presidents . of these universities fails to answer a fundamental question about moral clarity.
UPenn student Eyal Yakoby said the schools “got it wrong again.” He and others say Jewish students cannot feel safe now
Burgess Owens blasted schools for 'indoctrinating our children with evil'
Bill Ackman said all three women should resign “in disgrace” after their testimony
'They should be fired. It is absurd that this is happening on so-called elite college campuses in the 21st century.
“I graduated from Harvard University. This should never happen at Harvard or anywhere else. The reality is that if you placed three high school students across America and asked them the same question, they would answer the question correctly and say it's wrong.
“The failure of these university presidents to answer it has rotted our ivory towers and the intellectual institutions that do not understand moral clarity,” she fumed.
Rep. Burgess Owens told FOX: “We have a system that is broken. We have been taught an evil being: it is a virus called DEI. It is an ideology based on Marxism that there is an oppressive race.
“There is no leadership, we saw that yesterday.”
Rep. Owens, who is black, has called Dr. Gay at Harvard questioned and allowed only black and Hispanic graduation ceremonies, asking if she approved of racial segregation.
Today he said he had “never seen anything” like the hatred among students that is happening now.
Dr. Claudine Gay, President of Harvard University, Liz Magill, President of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Pamela Nadell, professor of History and Jewish Studies at American University, and Dr. Sally Kornbluth, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) calls for the resignation of Harvard University President Claudine Gay during a House Education and The Workforce Committee hearing
“We send our children there to be injected with evil and they come out hating whites and hating Jews. They know what they're doing – we need to start holding people accountable.
“They separate people – we're raising a group of kids who really hate each other. I've never seen anything like it.
“It's a deliberate indoctrination of our children.”
Eyal Yakoby, a 21-year-old Jewish UPenn student, echoed Owens' anger.
“There is such a lack of information dissemination and it has seriously become the responsibility of students, alumni and parents to actually share the stories of what is happening on campus.
“President Magill said, 'We can't get it wrong.' Well, she's wrong again.
“She couldn't answer.”
When asked by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) whether calling for genocide against Jews was harassment, Magill grinned and replied, “It's a context-dependent decision.”
“I think this should scare more than just Jews. It's not just Jews – it's every kind of person that she's openly in Congress that doesn't directly violate UPenn's code of conduct.
'I don't know what context she is referring to. What other context is she looking for?
“It's very scary to think about what the next step is in terms of context.”