The three university presidents looked like total frauds arguing for free speech despite their universities’ dubious records.
“Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate (your university’s) code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?” Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., asked three university presidents on Tuesday.
The occasion was a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on antisemitism on campus — a hearing that follows Hamas’ brutal murders of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7 and competing campus activism in support of Israel or Hamas. (READ MORE from Debra Saunders: School’s Out Forever)
The response of Harvard’s Claudine Gay, M.I.T.’s Sally Kornbluth, and University of Pennsylvania’s Elizabeth Magill was illuminating. When pro-Palestinian activists talk intifada, they choose to look at said speech in “context” and some ask whether said speech targeted individuals.
