Elite universities are attempting damage control amid backlash over their presidents’ testimony to Congress on Tuesday about anti-Semitism on campus.
The presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology testified that it “depends on the context” whether calls for the genocide of the Jewish people would violate university rules.
Penn attempted to clarify President Liz Magill’s testimony the following day, releasing a video statement from Magill in which she said, “I was not focused on—but I should’ve been—the irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate.”