US Lawmakers Demand Harvard, Penn, MIT Presidents Be Removed
Supporters of Palestine gather at Harvard University to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza, at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Oct. 14.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers demanded the dismissal of three high-profile university presidents who testified before a House committee this week about antisemitism and offered narrow legal responses to questions over whether calling for the genocide of Jews was against school policy.
“The world is watching — you can stand with your Jewish students and faculty or you can choose the side of dangerous antisemitism,” Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican, and Jared Moskowitz, a Florida Democrat, said in a letter to the governing boards of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday.