University presidents have refused to unequivocally say that calling for the genocide of Jews is harassment or bullying, saying the issue is a “context-dependent decision.”
This occurred during a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing on Dec. 5 with University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill, Harvard President Claudine Gay, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth regarding anti-Semitism on college and university campuses amid the war between the Jewish state of Israel and the terrorist group Hamas.
House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) asked those presidents whether calling for the genocide of Jews is harassment or bullying.
“If targeted at individuals not making public statements,” said Ms. Kornbluth.
Ms. Kornbluth claimed she has not heard of genocidal calls against Jews.
She did, however, say, “I’ve heard chants which can be anti-Semitic depending on the context when calling for the elimination of the Jewish people.”
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Ms. Kornbluth added that calling for the genocide of the Jewish people “would be investigated as harassment if pervasive and severe.”
Ms. Magill echoed Ms. Kornbluth when asked the same…
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