The President of the University of Pennsylvania, along with the presidents of Harvard and MIT, couldn’t bring themselves to say that calling for the genocide of Jews on campus violated campus anti-harassment and anti-intimidation rules.
The context was the mobs of anti-Israel students chanting “Long Live the Intifada” and “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free” and similar chants. I covered it in Congressional Campus Antisemitism Hearing: “The three presidents were, frankly, fairly pathetic”
Elise Stefanik posed the questions:
The blowback has been harsh. Whoever said that any publicity is good publicity obviously didn’t watch this hearing.
Now the President of U. Penn has doubts about what she said. She got lost in the moment. Now she says that calls on campus for genocide against Jews would constitute threats and harassment.
Too late. There’s video. And still with the words games.
Stefanik was quick to respond:
This pathetic PR clean up attempt by @Penn shockingly took over 24 hours to try to fix the moral depravity of the answers under oath yesterday. And there was not even an apology. By the way, the questions were asked over and over and over again. No statement will fix what the world saw and heard yesterday. There is zero question that the world knows that the only answer is for @Penn to deliver accountability and bring in new leadership immediately.
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