UPenn trustees have NOT called for president Liz Magill's resignation - but will meet again on Sunday to weigh her future after telling her to 'think long and hard' about whether she can 'function in her role effectively'

University of Pennsylvania trustees have not called for the resignation of president Liz Magill, but will get together on Sunday to discuss her future after her disastrous congressional testimony, according to a new report.

However, between six and eight trustees did urge Magill, who is facing massive backlash after saying calling for the genocide of Jews didn't necessarily break UPenn's rules, to 'think long and hard' about whether she can 'function in her role effectively' by six to eight trustees.

The trustees told the academic that 'If the answer is you can't [function], we need to know that, and you ought to resign,' according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. 

The local outlet's report contradicts a report by CNN that claimed Board of Trustees Chair Scott Bok was expected to talk to Magill about stepping down. The university said on Thursday it had no plans to to change leadership and another denied to that Bok and Magill were meeting, and said the board was not close to calling for Magill to step aside.

A source told DP there have been at least a dozen 'explicit calls' for Board of Trustees Chair Scott Bok to resign. Back in October multiple donors and former trustees called for both Bok and Magill to resign over their handling of anti-Semitism on campus after the Israel-Hamas war broke out. 

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Magill, MIT's Sally Kornbluth and Harvard President Claudine Gay, who testified at the same hearing this week in Congress - have come under fire from the Jewish communities and others at their schools who believe they have not done enough to stand up against antisemitism. 

Billionaire investor Bill Ackerman quoted the CNN report and celebrated what he believed was Magill's impending resignation, tweeting: 'One down.'

Magill tried to salvage the situation on Wednesday, posting a groveling video statement attempting to explain her failure to condemn calls for the genocide of Jewish people on campuses.

She said she was not 'focused' on the issue, and said she wanted to 'be clear' that calls for genocide were 'evil, plain and simple' - although she said the blame lay with her university's policies and the constitution, rather than with her.

'In that moment, I was focused on our university's long-standing policies - aligned with the U.S. Constitution - which say that speech alone is not punishable. 

It was too late. 

The university president's feeble responses sparked widespread uproar, with one UPenn donor threatening to withdraw his $100m gift unless Magill stood down. 

On Thursday, second gentleman Doug Emhoff denounced rising antisemitism amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war and the 'presidents of some of our most elite universities.'

Speaking at the lighting ceremony of a massive menorah in front of the White House to mark the first night of Hanukah, Emhoff criticized college presidents who testified on Capitol Hill this week, saying they 'were unable to denounce calling for the genocide of Jews as anti-Semitic.'

'The lack of moral clarity is unacceptable,' he said.

The governing body of the influential Wharton business school at UPenn also joined a growing chorus calling on Penn's president to resign after what they see as her failure to condemn anti-Semitic rhetoric on campus.

In an undated letter they called on the university's Board of Trustees and Magill to initiate a change in leadership. 

'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 letter said.

Wharton's Board of Advisors is led by the billionaire CEO of Apollo Global Management, Marc Rowan, who gave $50 million to Wharton in 2018 and has urged donors to refrain from giving to the school until Magill and the Board of Trustees chair resign, according to media reports.

UPenn was already under fire over anti-Semitism on campus which has included anti-Jewish slogans being projected onto three of the school's buildings.

'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,' read one message splashed across the John M Huntsman hall on Wednesday night. The slogan demands the land from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea, meaning the end of the State of Israel.

Harvard's Claudine Gay, on her part, issued an apology on Friday for claiming in her testimony that calls for the genocide of Jewish people would only be wrong 'depending on the context'.

The comment led to furious outrage as Gay was condemned, including by the White House, leading the educator to issue a groveling apology to The Harvard Crimson on Thursday.

'I am sorry. Words matter,' she said. 'When words amplify distress and pain, I don’t know how you could feel anything but regret.'

Meanwhile, MIT issued a statement on on Thursday saying it is standing by its president Sally Kornbluth following her equally-ambiguous testimony on anti-Semitism on campus.

'The MIT Corporation chose Sally to be our president for her outstanding academic leadership, her judgment, her integrity, her moral compass, and her ability to unite our community around MIT’s core values,' the school said in a statement. 

'She has done excellent work in leading our community, including in addressing antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of hate, which we reject utterly at MIT. She has our full and unreserved support.'