University Presidents Say Calling for Jewish Genocide Doesn’t Always Constitute Harassment

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) questions Harvard University President Claudine Gay at a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on alleged campus anti-Semitism in Washington on Dec. 5, 2023. House Committee on Education and the Workforce/Screenshot via NTD

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.