Harvard, Penn Heads Walk Back Genocide Answers After Backlash
- Gay responds that calls for violence against Jews are ‘vile’
- Magill said she should have focused on ‘irrefutable facts’
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The presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania were forced to issue statements clarifying their responses to a US congressional hearing on antisemitism after a barrage of criticism from business leaders and politicians that shows few signs of abating.
Harvard’s Claudine Gay and Penn’s Liz Magill were lambasted for refusing to say at the Dec. 5 event that calling for the genocide of Jews is against school policy, instead offering narrow legal responses.