Magill testified along with two other presidents, Claudine Gay of Harvard and Sally Konerbluth of MIT, at a hearing held last week at the Congressional Education Committee in Washington. The three answered the committee members' question whether calling to destroy Israel is anti-Semitism: "It depends on the context"
Liz Magill, the president of the University of Pennsylvania, has resigned after an uproar over her recent testimony before a congressional committee, which raised questions from the White House, donors and alumni about how the prestigious institution deals with anti-Semitism on campus.
In an email sent to the campus on Saturday afternoon, Scott Bock, chairman of Penn State University's Board of Trustees, announced that Magill had voluntarily tendered her resignation. Magill will continue to serve as interim president until a new president is appointed, and she will remain a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania College of Law, Book wrote. Bock also resigned as chairman of the committee, as he confirmed to USA TODAY on Saturday.
In a post on social media, Magill wrote, "It has been my privilege to serve as president of this amazing institution. It has been an honor to work with university faculty, students, staff, alumni and community members to advance Penn's vital missions."
Magill testified along with two other presidents, Claudine Gay of Harvard and Sally Konerbluth of MIT, at a hearing held last week at the Congressional Education Committee in Washington. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik asked them whether calls for the genocide of Jews violate their universities' code of conduct against intimidation and harassment. The three presidencies have repeatedly insisted that these things are covered by the constitutional right to freedom of expression.
"If speech turns into behavior, it can be harassment. Yes," said Magill.
Critics have argued that the evasive answer suggests that the university will not adequately address anti-Semitism. Even the White House addressed the issue, with President Joe Biden's spokeswoman, Karin Jean-Pierre, saying that calls for genocide are "against everything this country stands for."
"She gave a legal answer to a moral question, and it became a terrible 30-second soundbite during more than five hours of testimony." wrote a book.
Two days after the hearing, the committee announced it would investigate disciplinary policies and procedures at Penn, Harvard and MIT.
Before announcing her resignation, Magill tried to minimize the damage when she announced in a video post that calling for the genocide of Jews would be considered harassment or a threat. She also called for a reexamination of Penn's policies, which she says are in line with the United States Constitution's freedom of speech but to examine what kinds of readings are covered under that right are problematic. The regulations must be clear, she concluded.
Pressure for her resignation mounted after a major donor, Ross Stevens, a Penn graduate and CEO of Stone Ridge Holdings, threatened to withdraw a $100 million donation to the university unless Magill was replaced.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, also called Magill's testimony "unacceptable" and called on the board of trustees there to consider her position. He then joined Jewish students at Penn to mark the beginning of Hanukkah by lighting a lamp on campus.
Harvard President Claudine Gay also apologized for her testimony, telling the Howard Crimson student newspaper that she was caught up in infighting over policies and procedures and failed to adequately condemn threats of violence against Jewish students.
"What I needed to do at that moment was to return to my guiding truth, that calls for violence against our Jewish community - threats against Jewish students - have no place at Harvard, and will not go unanswered," Gay said.
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What did I say about how these women were chosen for the top positions? Alan Dershowitz says it more precisely, about the president of Harvard. And besides, right now this president is at the center of a new scandal, in which it turns out that she plagiarized work, just like the last of the lazy students in elementary school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reibkTRZ4oI
Once upon a time there was a man, and the man had cancer. The cancer grew unhindered and metastasized to the mouth and there, until it reached the head and a handsome furuncle grew there in the center of the forehead. The person, who already felt that something was wrong, was very angry at the sight of the furuncle, but also felt relieved: why bother speculating about cancer when the problem is obvious in the middle of the forehead? Go away! The man said to Fronkel, but Fronkel replied, "I don't want to." And besides, I'm not a Fronkel, I'm a cancer."
This story of the heads of the universities is so amazing, the excuses are also amazing. No wonder, because they were given by another idiot who was fired on the same occasion. A university president who does not understand that what is required of her is not a "legalistic argument" but leadership in a time of crisis is not worthy of her position in the first place. How the hell did they choose her (and her friends) for such a senior position? Ah, affirmative action.
Second, a law professor, who does not understand the subtle nuances of words. unbelievable. Ask her if calling for genocide is legitimate at her university. As the member of Congress said, who really freaked out at the answer, this is the easiest question with the clearest possible answer. Someone more sophisticated and hypocritical (and anti-Semitic) would know how to answer this question - and then argue about the issue of whether "from the sea to the river" is indeed a call for genocide. But here we have a stupid anti-Semite, who also doesn't understand what she was asked, how the hell did she get the position of law professor? The answer is probably obvious.
Now it remains to talk about freedom of speech. This is a very important thing in the US, but it no longer exists on the campuses there. Anne is a conservative or republican lecturer in medicine, and against those who come from abroad to give a lecture, a campaign of intimidation and blowing up the lectures is underway. When they removed the pictures of the abductees on campuses in the USA - it was not new. They were well practiced in the procedure.
Blasting a campus lecture that didn't go so well:
https://youtu.be/OPcC6Wjn4IU?t=20
Bottom line, they are really experts in gagging, so the sweeping permission for anti-Semites and Islamists to run amok without hindrance and threaten and harass Jewish and Israeli students was not a fault, it was the method. The lack of treatment was also directed from above, and fed by the neo-Marxist-progressive ideology that dominates the campuses and which is instilled in students, and which is eventually distributed to all levels of the private and public sectors.
So what happened to that person with the cancer? That still remains to be seen.