Tribe added in a subsequent post Thursday morning: “Even the attempted ‘clarifications’ by these university presidents, opting for what they mistook for legal nuance over what should’ve been simple moral clarity, showed how easily a search for political correctness can triumph over wisdom and courage alike.” University leaders testify before the House Education and the Workforce Committee in Washington on Tuesday. “Claudine Gay’s hesitant, formulaic, and bizarrely evasive answers were deeply troubling to me and many of my colleagues, students, and friends,” he wrote on X. Harvard law professor emeritus Laurence Tribe was among the academics who criticized the presidents’ responses. In a separate statement posted to X, Gay said: “Let me be clear: Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic group are vile, they have no place at Harvard, and those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account.” “It’s evil, plain and simple,” she added. In a video posted to Facebook on Wednesday night, Magill said she should have been focused on “the irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate.” “And then the testimony yesterday took it to the next level.” ![]() ![]() “They have seemingly failed every step of the way to take concrete action to make sure all students feel safe on campus,” Shapiro said. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, who holds a nonvoting spot on Penn’s board of trustees, told reporters Wednesday that the university had some “serious decisions” to make. Referring to the hearing, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement that it was “unbelievable that this needs to be said: calls for genocide are monstrous and antithetical to everything we represent as a country.” ![]() Kornbluth said she had not heard of students at MIT calling for the genocide of Jews and said if reported it would be “investigated as harassment if pervasive and severe.”
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