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Truck billboards calling for Penn president's firing circle campus after Israel remarks

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Trucks are driving around the University of Pennsylvania’s campus calling for the Ivy League school’s president, Elizabeth Magill, to be fired over her rhetoric on antisemitism.
Box trucks with billboards demanding the firing of University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill for her handling of campus antisemitism were deployed to the Ivy League school on Thursday.
« FIRE LIZ, » one truck read as it toured the Philadelphia campus. 
Fox News Digital has learned that two privately-funded trucks are circling the University of Pennsylvania campus on streets such as Walnut and Spruce, while making pit stops at popular spots for students like the Penn bookstore. The trucks also show photos of the Jewish victims who have been killed or taken hostage by Hamas. 
Other trucks criticizing Magill for her failure to « protect Jewish students » or highlighting individual Jews who have been kidnapped by Hamas are also touring the campus Thursday, photos show.
The billboard protests follow a congressional hearing on Tuesday during which Magill, Harvard President Claudine Gay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth were grilled about their handling of antisemitism on their respective campuses following Hamas launching attacks on Israel in October.

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