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There are growing calls for the presidents of Harvard, UPenn and MIT to resign today over their 'extremely troubling' testimony on antisemitism which included them saying calling for the genocide of Jews was allowed on their campuses.
The three women yesterday stunned lawmakers at a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism where they refused to denounce calls for the genocide of Jews as 'harassment', and said such hate speech does not violate their codes of conduct.
Today, students from the schools along with some of the shocked Republicans present at the hearing say it is clear that all three must resign.
The boards of each school - which ultimately decide whether the women will remain in their positions - are yet to make their positions clear.
And while donors including Bill Ackman have expressed their disgust with the remarks, other prominent alumni and donors like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg remain silent on the issue.
Harvard President Claudine Gay at the congressional hearing yesterday where she said calling for the genocide of Jews does not violate the school's code of conduct
Rep. Elise Stefanik, who led questioning of the three school leaders yesterday, said their remarks equated to 'moral depravity on display'
The Harvard Board of Overseers is yet to respond to inquiries on Dr. Gay's remarks, as is its Alumni Association. UPenn and MIT have been equally silent.
Rep. Elise Stefanik ( who was the most aggressive in questioning the trio yesterday, slammed the 'moral depravity' of their answers.
'I've been in a number of very high-profile congressional hearings over the years and the pathetic moral depravity on display by the witnesses, the three universities presidents from Harvard, Mitt and Penn, I haven't witnessed anything like that.
'I asked the question in such a way it was an easy yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews in fact does violate their policies and code of conduct when it comes to bullying and harassment.
'Their answers were pathetic. I was so shaken, Harris, and what was probably the most tragic aspect of the hearing to me was there were a number of Jewish students from those schools in the audience sitting behind them and to watch just the fear as they are listening to the presidents of these universities fail to answer a basic question of moral clarity was abyss mall.
UPenn student Eyal Yakoby said the schools 'got it wrong again'. He and others say Jewish students cannot feel safe now
Rep. Burgess Owens slammed the schools for 'indoctrinating our kids with evil'
Bill Ackman said all three women must resign 'in disgrace' after their testimony
'They need to be fired. It is absurd that this is happening in the 21st century on so-called elite college campuses.
'I'm a graduate of Harvard university. This should never happen at Harvard or anywhere. The reality is if you put three middle schoolers across America and ask them the same question, they would correctly answer the question and say that it is wrong.
'The fact that these presidents of universities could not answer it, it has rotted out our ivory towers and the intellectual institutions who do not understand moral clarity,' she fumed.
Rep. Burgess Owens told FOX: 'We have a system that is broken. We have an evil being taught: it's a virus called DEI. It's a Marxist based ideology that there's an oppressive race.
'There is no leadership - that's what we saw yesterday.'
Rep. Owens, who is black, grilled Dr. Gay on Harvard allowing black and Hispanic-only graduations, asking her if she condoned race segregation.
Today, he said he had 'never seen anything like' the hatred among college students that is now playing out.
Dr. Claudine Gay, President of Harvard University, Liz Magill, President of University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Pamela Nadell, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at American University, and Dr. Sally Kornbluth, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) calls for Harvard University President Claudine Gay's resignation during a House Education and The Workforce Committee hearing
'We're sending our kids there to be injected by evil and they're coming out hating whites, hating Jews. They know what they're doing - we need to start holding people accountable.
'They are segregating people - we're raising a group of kids who truly hate each other. I've never seen anything like it.
'It is a purposeful indoctrination of our children.'
Eyal Yakoby, a 21-year-old Jewish UPenn student, echoed Owens' fury.
'There is such a lack of dissemination of information and it seriously has become the responsibility of students, alumni and parents to actually share the stories of what's happening on campus.
'President McGill said "we cannot get it wrong." Well, she got it wrong yet again.
'She could not answer.'
When asked by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) if calling for the genocide of Jews was harassment, McGill smirked and replied: 'It is a context-dependent decision.'
'I think that should scare beyond just Jews. It's not just Jews - it's any sort of human being that she is openly, in congress, that that does not directly violate the code of conduct of UPenn.
'I don't know what context she is referring to. What other context is she looking for?
'It is very scary to think what the next step in terms of context is.'
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