UPenn board member Vahan Gureghian who quit in disgust after October 7th calls on embattled president Liz Magill to resign after failing to confirm  calling for genocide of Jews broke campus rules

The billionaire charter school entrepreneur who quit the board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania over claims of rampant antisemitism has told DailyMail.com that under-fire president Liz Magill must stand down today.

Top businessman Vahan Gureghian resigned from the post, which he held from 2009, a week after the October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists.

He accused Magill of not doing enough to protect Jewish students, including failing to condemn speakers at the Palestine Writes Literature Festival who have spouted hatred against Jews.

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, the 69-year-old said Magill's disastrous testimony before Congress this week meant she must go by the end of Friday.

Magill, a top legal scholar, has come under fire after she failed to confirm if calling for the 'genocide of Jews' violated Penn's rules or code of conduct during questioning from GOP lawmakers.

'She should resign today,' Gureghian said. 'I was appalled at her answers, and it only goes to show that everything I thought all along was correct that she really doesn't belong in this job.'

The GOP donor said Magill had presided over a culture on campus where Jewish students were 'fearful to go to class' and scared 'of being ostracized or even attacked' amid a wave of pro-Palestine protests.

The Ivy League school hit the headlines two weeks after the Israel massacre after a group of students posted a series of posters appearing to mock Israelis taken hostage by Hamas.  

They compared the captives to 'missing cows' and purported to offer a reward of 'a box of chalk and a can of beer' if they could be found.

'Everyone is free to demonstrate and say the things that they want as long as it doesn't rise to the level of hate speech,' Gureghian said.

 Her tepid defense of UPenn's Jewish students has already sparked a backlash, with an array of donors calling on the 57-year-old to quit the post she had held since July 1, 2022.

Gureghian also admitted was 'upset' that Magill had ignored two uber-rich UPenn donors, billionaire Ron Lauder and Law & Order creator Dick Wolf, who demanded the Palestine Writes event be axed.

They 'had urged President Magill to cancel the festival weeks before it occurred and she had refused to do so,' he said, adding that the decision to stand down had 'not been taken lightly.'

The graduate of Villanova University and Delaware Law School had considered his position, which had been appointed to by the state's general assembly, before an October 13 emergency board meeting.

But the founder and CEO of CSMI, an education consulting company that operates charter schools in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, resigned the next day after a promised presentation on how to fix the mess at UPenn never took place.

Palestine Writes, the self-styled celebration of Palestinian culture, included disgraced ex-CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-bashing Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters.

Lamont Hill was fired from the left-leaning news network in 2018 for calling for 'a free Palestine from the river to sea', a chant that is widely seen as calling for the obliteration of Israel.

'Not only was there antisemitism because of that Palestine festival, and (Magill's) reaction to the attack by Hamas, but also the actions of the Board of Trustees, or lack thereof, in disciplining her or instructing her or being forceful with her,' Gureghian told DailyMail.com.

'It was just a scenario on a board level that has existed the entire time I was on there…when board members just rubberstamp whatever the chairman (Scott Bok) and the president say,' he added.

The Palm Beach resident, who was honored by a local synagogue over his stance against UPenn, also blasted Joe Biden for constantly promoting 'the liberal woke agenda' since taking office three years ago.

'Under that umbrella of that agenda, antisemitism has now clearly been inserted in there.

'It all begins with the administration in Washington and with politics in America today. You have all of these liberal views that are being forced on the general public.

'If you disagree with the view of trans or whatever the case is then you are ostracized. So, you have this silent majority that says nothing.

The businessman said it would be a 'betrayal' towards the U.S. Jewish community if he had not spoken up.

'My grandfather was born in Turkey and escaped the genocide (in the early 20th century at the hands of the Ottoman Empire) and escaped to America through Ellis Island.

'I am of Armenian descent, 'he explained. 'I am passionate about that about the fact that we should not let that happen to any people. I feel passionate because it's the right thing to do.'

Gureghian's intervention comes just hours after the influential called for Magill to go after wealthy alumnus withdrew a $100 million donation.

Her remarks were roundly condemned by the ADL, the White House and politicians across the board.

On Thursday, as the House Education Committee said they were now investigating the issue further , the board of Wharton - the world's first business school, founded in 1881 at the University of Pennsylvania - said Magill needed to resign.

In a letter addressed to her, they said leadership of the university needed to change 'with immediate effect'.

'As a result of the University leadership's stated beliefs and collective failure to act, our Board respectfully suggests to you and the Board of Trustees that the University requires new leadership with immediate effect.'

The board, in a letter first obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian , describes their concern about 'dangerous and toxic culture' at Penn that they said the University leadership has allowed to exist.

The letter adds that the University leadership 'does not share the values of our Board.'

DailyMail.com has contacted a spokesman for the University of Pennsylvania for comment.