‘Their Statements Were Abhorrent’: Backlash To Harvard, Penn, MIT Presidents On Anti-Semitism Continues Even After They Backtrack

The presidents of three prestigious schools are backtracking after their congressional testimony this week on anti-Semitism prompted backlash, but it has not stopped the criticism. The presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Pennsylvania testified to Congress on Tuesday about the rise of anti-Semitic hate speech at their schools. All three presidents avoided answering whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated the universities’ codes of conduct. “It can be, depending on the context,” Harvard’s president Claudine Gay said. She said such hate...