BLOOMBERG: Harvard, Penn Heads Walk Back Genocide Answers After Backlash
December 7th, 2023 By Janet Lorin 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 […]
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Questioning University Presidents on Antisemitism, Stefanik Goes Viral
December 7th, 2023 By Annie Karni Representative Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, arrived at a congressional hearing about antisemitism on college campuses ready for battle. With the presidents of three prestigious universities to be seated in front of her at the witness table, Ms. Stefanik, the No. 4 Republican, saw an opportunity to […]
MUST READ – DAILY MAIL: The world is watching – fire these hateful presidents NOW: Congresswoman ELISE STEFANIK shamed three top college bosses in the infamous Jewish genocide row… Here she writes for DailyMail.com to make her unswerving demand
December 7th, 2023 By Rep. Elise Stefanik Ask yourself one simple question: should calling for the genocide of Jews be considered harassment and bullying? Anyone with a sliver of decency knows the answer is emphatically ‘Yes’. Yet when the university presidents of Harvard, MIT and Upenn testified this week under oath to Congress as I questioned them over […]
AXIOS: MIT, Harvard and Penn antisemitism testimony spurs GOP probe
December 7th, 2023 By Andrew Solender A Republican-led House committee is launching an investigation into antisemitism at MIT, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and other elite colleges. Why it matters: The probe is in response to congressional testimony from those colleges’ presidents this week in which they they evaded questions about disciplinary action over calls for violence against Jews. […]
THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN: Congress launches investigation into Penn, warns of subpoenas following House antisemitism hearing
December 7th, 2023 By Jonah Miller The United States House Committee on Education and the Workforce announced an investigation into Penn with the “full force of subpoena power” following a Tuesday hearing on antisemitism on college campuses that received national attention. In a statement provided to The Daily Pennsylvanian, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) wrote […]
USA TODAY: Harvard, Penn and MIT presidents ignite furor with ‘unacceptable’ response to antisemitism
December 6th, 2023 By Michael Collins WASHINGTON – The presidents of three elite American universities faced a fierce backlash Wednesday that stretched from their campuses to the White House over their refusal to say whether calling for the genocide of Jews violates their policies against bullying and harassment. Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman […]
FOX NEWS: Liberal Harvard prof praises Stefanik for grilling Harvard president about antisemitism on campus
December 6th, 2023 By Alexander Hall A left-wing professor emeritus at Harvard, Laurence Tribe, praised New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik for how she questioned Harvard president Claudine Gay about rampant calls for violence against Israel and Jewish people on campus. Stefanik, a Harvard alumni herself, questioned Gay at a Committee on Education & […]
NEW YORK POST: Jewish students at Harvard, MIT, NYU and Penn facing death threats, assault: ‘Back to 1939’
December 5th, 2023 By Ryan King Jewish students attending four of the most prestigious universities in America recounted gut-wrenching experiences with antisemitism on their campuses Tuesday, with one saying school officers had spewed blood libels and another comparing the environment of hatred to before World War II. House Republicans featured the four students at […]
THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: Harvard Alumna Elise Stefanik Skewers School For Enabling ‘Far-Left’ Jew Hatred
December 5th, 2023 By Charles Hilu Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) on Tuesday accused Harvard University, her alma mater, of enabling “far-left” anti-Semitism. “Today, Harvard University has been so corrupted by its apparent desperation to appease the far-left that its moral compass has been long forgotten,” she wrote in an op-ed in the Harvard […]
TOWNHALL: ‘PR Disaster for Universities’: Jewish Students Speak Out Against Administrators Amid Antisemitic Attacks
December 5th, 2023 By Spencer Brown House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) convened a press conference on Tuesday to give a platform to Jewish students at American universities where jarring scenes of antisemitic demonstrations have played out in recent weeks amid Hamas terrorists’ barbaric war against Israel. The students, from schools including MIT, NYU, Harvard, […]
