House lawmakers are demanding that three elite universities immediately boot their presidents for being “evasive and dismissive” when pushed to condemn antisemitism and calls on campus for the genocide of Jews.
House lawmakers are demanding that three elite universities immediately boot their presidents for being “evasive and dismissive” when pushed to condemn antisemitism and calls on campus for the genocide of Jews.
The push for the dismissal of Harvard President Claudine Gay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth and University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill follows a fiery House hearing where the campus leaders struggled to condemn an increasing anti-Jewish environment on campuses.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, New York Republican, and Rep. Jared Moskowitz, Florida Democrat, wrote in a letter to the boards of the three universities that the explosion of antisemitism on their campuses was a “failure of university leadership.”
“Given this moment of crisis, we demand that your boards immediately remove each of these presidents from their positions and that you provide an actionable plan to ensure that Jewish and Israeli students, teachers, and faculty are safe on your campuses,” the lawmakers wrote.
