![]() The three presidents in question - Magill, Harvard’s Claudine Gay, and MIT’s Sally Kornbluth - are all brilliant, so they no doubt grasped the role they were to play in this GOP-led hearing: punching bag. In the wake of Hamas’s terrorist slaughter of 1,200 Israelis in early October, antisemitic incidents had taken place at the colleges, and there were questions about whether the universities had allowed widespread student and faculty support of the Palestinian cause to tip over into hatred of Jewish people. The hearing was political, but it wasn’t totally unjustified. They were there in order to discuss - or, in the words of the committee’s chair, North Carolina Republican Virginia Foxx, “atone for” - the rise in antisemitism that was taking place on their campuses. The moment that ended up on cable news, that went viral on social media, that within days would cost Penn president Liz Magill her job, felt, if you were in the room, both painfully uncomfortable and depressingly inevitable.Īs you’ve no doubt seen, read or heard by now, on December 5th, the presidents of three of America’s most prestigious universities - Harvard, MIT and Penn - appeared before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in Washington, D.C. Photograph via The Washington Post/Getty Images Former Penn president Liz Magill delivers her fateful testimony on campus antisemitism on Capitol Hill on December 5, 2023.
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