Penn’s Chaos: What Led Up to Liz Magill’s Resignation After Antisemitism Hearings
The dissident trustees of the University of Pennsylvania’s board had decided to meet in secret over the weekend. They had spent months watching support for Penn’s president erode as pro-Palestinian students demonstrated on campus, donors threatened to withhold tens of millions of dollars, and the advisory board of Penn’s influential business school demanded that the […]
Opinion | The Right and Wrong Ways to Deal with Campus Antisemitism
As I watched the presidents of Harvard, M.I.T. and the University of Pennsylvania struggle last week to respond to harsh congressional questioning about the prevalence of antisemitism on their campuses, I had a singular thought: Censorship helped put these presidents in their predicament, and censorship will not help them escape. To understand what I mean, […]
Penn’s President Liz Magill Resigns After Her Responses to Antisemitism
The president of the University of Pennsylvania, M. Elizabeth Magill, resigned on Saturday, four days after she appeared before Congress and appeared to evade the question of whether students who called for the genocide of Jews should be punished. Support for Ms. Magill, already shaken in recent months over her approach to a Palestinian literary […]
One Law Firm Prepared Both Penn and Harvard for Hearing on Antisemitism
At a congressional hearing on Tuesday, the leaders of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave carefully worded — and seemingly evasive — answers to the question of whether they would discipline students who called for the genocide of Jews. The intense criticism that followed led many to wonder: Who […]
Questioning University Presidents on Antisemitism, Stefanik Goes Viral
Representative Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, arrived at a congressional hearing about antisemitism on college campuses ready for battle. With the presidents of three prestigious universities to be seated in front of her at the witness table, Ms. Stefanik, the No. 4 Republican, saw an opportunity to put the academic left on the spot […]
Harvard President Apologizes for Congressional Testimony on Antisemitism
Harvard’s president apologized for her testimony before Congress about how she responded to antisemitism on campus — another sign that the controversy over her remarks and similar comments by the presidents of M.I.T. and the University of Pennsylvania was not going away. “I am sorry,” Claudine Gay, Harvard’s president, said in an interview that the […]