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According to Reuters, the University of Pennsylvania announced on December 9 that its president, Liz Magill, had resigned. She has previously come under fire for her stance on antisemitism on campus.
Three presidents from top universities testified before Congress on the 5th about the rise of anti-Semitism on college campuses after the outbreak of the Israeli-Hamas war in October. Magill is one of them. Their statements at the hearing were criticized.
Magill, Harvard University President Claudine Gay, and MIT President Sally Kornbruth testified before a committee of the US House of Representatives on 5 July.
When Republican Rep. Elise Stephanik asked whether the call for genocide against Jews violated school rules about bullying and harassment, the three principals sought to maintain a position protecting free speech, refusing to answer "yes" or "no" definitively.
In the days following that hearing, calls for the resignations of Magill and Gay were particularly loud. Magill posted a ** expressing regret the next day, and Guy also apologized on the 8th.
Jewish students, families and alumni have accused the universities of tolerating antisemitism.
After the University of Pennsylvania announced the decision, Stephanik said on social ***x: "One guy is **, there are two left." This is just the beginning of a solution to the pervasive anti-Semitic myth that has ruined America's 'most prestigious' institution of higher learning. ”
*: Refer to the news network compiled by Zhu Li).