If Harvard University would punish a student who calls for the murder of African-Americans, why not those who chant slogans to “commit genocide against the Jewish people?”
New York Rep. Elise Stefanik and her Republican colleagues on the GOP-led House Education and Workforce Committee sent Harvard President Claudine Gay running for her talking points with such questions at hearing Tuesday on university presidents’ response to campus antisemitism.
Committee Republicans repeatedly blamed elite universities for inviting the “rot” of antisemitism, as Chairwoman Virginia Foxx of North Carolina called it, through diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, ideologically lopsided hiring, and double standards on which speech prompts sanctions.
Foxx quoted a Senate floor speech by Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, of New York, who said “many” antisemitic sentiments are coming from those whom “most liberal Jewish Americans felt previously were their ideological fellow travelers,” but faulted him for not shaming colleges.
The chairwoman gave Gay, the University of Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sally Kornbluth the chance to “answer to and atone for the…
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