The presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania released statements clarifying their Congressional testimony earlier this week. The school leaders have faced fierce criticism over their responses to questions about rhetoric involving genocide. NBC News’ Stephanie Gosk reports on the fallout.
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#Harvard #Israel #Palestine
Two should go
These people are international terrorists. Why to allow them in? Why????? I am disabled so are you, now both of us are drug addicts. Any travel restrictions for terrorists????? Example? Antisemitic people traveling to Israel.
The pro islamic jihad left has to be purged from these universities
…….Segregation happens in Israel every day. The Jews are the whites and the palestinians are the blacks.
It is called Apartheid. The Zionists in the west need to stop supporting Apartheid in Israel…The Zionists are trying to silence everyone’s voice. If you want people to stop being angry at you then stop the slaughter of women and children in gaza.
It is not acceptable to mass murder civilians. And now you want to silence free speech. All the Zionist Jews in the west are to blame for supporting Israel as an Apartheid State. What a bunch of Hypocrites. Enough is Enough.
And if Biden will not put an end to the genocide of these people then we need to vote him out of office….
Freedom, only when money says so
as the crazy Israeli fanatics try to exterminate millions of people who have been living in Palestine for millenia..Christians too.
If three top university presidents gave you the same answers, that tells you the answer.
When speech becomes conduct, it’s too late to look for prevention or preemption which is why such rules exist in the first place. That is why the First Amendment does not protect calls to violence even when they are invoked in public places, never mind private institutions. UPenn has no obligation to protect free speech, but the college does have an array of fiduciary responsibilities, chief of which is ensuring safety of all its students. The fact that this “law professor” can’t even differentiate public places from privately run institutions is chilling. She needs to be removed from academia for good.
Woke people are dillusional and need to be stopped
I’m so tired of pro Palestine people not understanding that the innocent Israeli lives that were lost are as sad as innocent Palestinians dying. All lives lost are sad. Hamas are the only ones who deserve punishment. Innocents should not be killed.
Bravo for UPenn!!! We are waiting for the same decision for ladies FROM Harvard and MIT. OUT-OUT-OUT FOREVER!
“And yet it moves!”
Taqqiya Kitman Maruna tawriya look it up.
Palestine is a very evil country. There are no freedoms in Palestine whatsoever. No freedom of speech or religion in Palestine. Women have no rights in Palestine. Homosexuals are literally killed in Palestine. Why would any sane person defend Palestine?
All three areJew haters and lovers of Hamas. Magill should be fired and not allowed to continue spewing her Jewish hatred to students on campus.
Anyone who donates to these colleges are terrorists.
Both sides hate the White man.
Fire that 3 monsters
Are these three women the best for the job or are they EDI appointments.
Looks like America’s elite universities have joined the panderverse 😂
They need to be fired. Or they should resign. What a disgraceful bunch. Are they even human?
If this was WW2, they would be on Hitler’s side.
Hamas and Taliban are the same Sunni branch…Zhulia Parsi. Neda Parwani. Manizha Sediqi. Parisa Azada.
These are four women’s rights activists arbitrarily detained by the Taliban right now. Remember their names. But please also remember that there are many more in custody who have not been named.
When the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021, their intent to suffocate the rights of women and girls became immediately apparent. Protests by women began just as quickly: they took to the streets with placards and chants. The chants coalesced into a clear demand: “Bread, work, freedom.”
The Taliban responded: with violence, detention, and torture. The Taliban have since detained a steady flow of women, silencing them and terrorizing their families. Most have been protesters, but others, including women running underground schools, have also been targeted. “Our members are extremely worried about their own safety and that of their families,” a women’s rights activist told us. “They are under constant pressure and fear of detention.”
You haven’t heard of most of the detained women. Families are terrified into concealing their arrests, hoping silence might buy their release or reduce abuses in custody. Families struggle to locate the detained women, who are effectively forcibly disappeared. When they find them, they are often shocked by their state. “I don’t know what [she] is going through,” one family member said. “During the visit, she couldn’t finish her words. She goes silent after a few words.”
Women have been arrested with family members, including small children. They are held in abusive conditions, and sometimes tortured. If they’re released, the Taliban demand deeds to their family’s property, threatening to confiscate it if the woman continues her activism.
Human Rights Watch is aware of many more cases – past and present – of detained women activists whom we cannot safely name here.
sick Marxist, don’t send your children to these Marxist sess pools, its a waste of money and very damaging to you children
It is very clear they didn’t “mis-speak”. This is the culture on elite campuses these days, and they are leading it.
I wouldn’t want my kids going to these schools. That was a very easy question to answer.
Where there is smoke there is fire. If these 3 are this racist then there are plenty more just like them in universities across America.
Foek harvard
What true naive hatred looks like
If you replied to questions like this in your defense, imagine your situation.😅
One of them resigned, two more need to!
Resign and pay back your salaries – presidents of Harvard and University of Pennsylvania!
Why is that since Oct7th the Israeli lobby have driven the idea that from the river the sea and intifada both mean a call for the genocide of Jews? Neither of those expressions means that but this lie has been driven relentlessly by the Israeli lobby. If you talk to any pro Palestinian campaigners they say that’s not what they mean. Do you think it is just the same old antisemitism tatic being used to silence people that are complaining about the Israel government bombing civilians
I feel like every careerist these days are complete cowards. What an insane hearing, Have a backbone people.
So much hate at the high level
All big universities either have Arab backing, and the other half have Jewish backing lol. Go to a Christian university.
SHAME on PEN, MIT & HARVARD!!!
The world supported Israel 100% until the IDF started slaughtering thousands of women and children in Gaza… Now Israel is losing the moral support of the world.
You are the weakest link, goodbye!
Only when actual genocide occurs is calling for genocide considered harassment.
Such a statement cannot be fiction.
Of course calling for resignation is sexist and racist.
0:33, 1:00 They say it with a smile on their face.
If i called this woman a migger it would be hate speech. Enough said
This is why people own guns. The time is coming
Universities do not represent the people.
These college presidents are such elitist, and out of touch with mainstream society, they have no clue how to behave in a moral and ethical manner
Context dependency. Doesn’t that sound like a disease? Like Depends Diapers.
How come bigots like these women become presidents of elite universities? It is such a shame. They wiggle like dirty worms on the hook, justifying their twisted minds.
Disgusting!!! Take your out of these woke, hate filled, dumb down institutions.
These witches think it is funny!!!! Everyone one of them think it is okay to call for the death of anyone is beyond belief!!!
These sick people are teaching, what? More hate!!!
All three of these ???people should be fired or put in a new job such as 3rd apprentice to the bathroom janitor department of their colleges. That would be more appropriate to their work and education level than the positions they currently hold.
I anyone thinks right wing Christian Nationalists are friends of the Jews, they’re in for a nasty suprise.
🤔I wonder if this would occur if all of a sudden these same universities had to be held accountable for racism against a Latino, White or Black minority group? This escalated pretty rapidly to very high levels of officials, very strange🤔😅.
“Stefanik” isn’t that the same person that backed Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and who was also a strong supporter of George Santos🤔? 😆🤣 this government is a joke.
All are women in power! They really made us look bad!!
this educated ladies wow usa value this!! merry christmas/ naughty and nice leaders
These three aren’t the first women to be bought and sold with Arab money. And, sadly, thanks to their prostituting their careers, they won’t be the last. A fine example they’ve set for the women of the world.
The case of MIT, Penn and Harvard is a testimony to the fact that as long as you take donations from antisemitic countries like Qatar – freedom of speech is only a matter of “does it secure more money or doesn’t it”.
I think what is happening is the world is disgusted with the genocide of the Palestinian people. There has been a response to this genocide globally, especially at educational institutions. We do have protected free speech in America. The role of the educational institution is to remain unbiased, to not pick sides. The role of the educational institution is to educate only. These gyrations felt through society will need to play out on their own, without the federal government mandating how people are allowed to think. The majority of Americans are struggling to put basic food on the table for their families. Few Americans will have the stomach to provide unconditional global financial support in the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year – to a people who ultimately see the world as US vs Them, Gods People vs the Gentiles. To a people actively committing genocide against a Palestinian people who have been forced into ghettos, concentrated into camps. Few Americans believe the narrative any longer, and most people are really struggling to understand how this group who was allegedly the victim of the holocaust, has been treating the Palestinian people worse than how the Hitler treated the Jews. We would think after a minority group underwent such unspeakable acts – they would have developed basic empathy towards their fellow humans. We would think this group would champion human rights, having understood the darkness humans can become. But alas, instead, Israel is the GENOCIDAL MANIAC. This is making a lot of people really question history, and to what extent propaganda truly has shaped our understanding of global affairs.
they all couldn’t openly condemn those “genocide comments.” the interview revealed what they wouldn’t condemn and it also showed that they couldn’t clearly make up their mind when it comes to what is right or what is wrong because of their policies and whatever. what they failed to show clearly at this interview was so entertaining and disgusting at the same time.
Jesus, can we not agree that calls for Genocide are bad…. is this real life.
Blood drinkers
These women must be fired. This has nothing to do with “context”. Disgusting.
They can alway get chinese state sponsored funds. No problem
😮😮😮
#ClaudineGayToJail for Antisemitism, Terror Glorification, Bribery, Incitement and Collusion with foreign forces.
Condemn Genocide against jews or anyone else
The majority of us were not primarily focused on Jewish interests, but rather could not tolerate the double standard regarding woke propaganda.
Trash! These presidents are trash! No wonder these once great universities are now trash!
Who are the Semites? In the meantime RT International-CGTN-Telasur
Aljazeera journalists in Gaza -open air prison-refugee camp documenting ethnic cleansing. Empire Files-The Grayzone-George Galloway MOATS. Reporterfy-Cyrus Janssen-The Duran
Martin Luther King is talking about anti-Semitism https://youtube.com/shorts/_E1K0eH1XaI?si=EMb49Hmzs6Pc1fC3
So much for woman in charge
Classic privileged democrats. Anti-Semitic and hateful. Claims to support Palestine when they’ll continue to vote for the man who is currently supporting the genocide of Palestinians. A Virtue signaling dilemma
How can it be antisemitism if Palestinians are semites? It needs to be redefined.
Congresswoman asked a question for the simpleton. University presidents tried to address it with nuance and context. People jumped at the opportunity to criticize elite schools.
THIS is female leadership.
These eggheads need to learn to bow down lower to the Israeli state, like the rest of us.
This ppl are bringing the USA to it’s END!
Question to Congresswoman Stefanik
“Is the call for Genocide of Palestinians by the War Criminal leaders of Zionist Occupier Israel accepable???” Yes or No.
😂😂😂
Supplementry Questions
“Do you condemn the 75+ yrs of Zionist Israeli Occupation of Palestine???” Yes or No.
😂😂😂
“Does Palestine have a right to exist???” Yes or No.
😂😂😂
“Does Palestine have a right to defend itself???” Yes or No.
😂😂😂
Please answer these questions Congresswoman.
😂🤣😂
scary indoctrination similarities …. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5E7WR8TINI&t=115s
A diversity hire going horribly wrong yet again… Yes talking to you Claudine… Your buddy Liz already stepped down, what are you waiting for? You’re done…
I see we have a anti Semitic admin working on here just allows what views they want to hear and deletes everything else “” clowns too ” lol
It didnt begin with the presidents. It began with Abraham4,000 years ago
I wonder how much money these 3 takes from Bahreim, Saudi Arabia or Quatar.
And this is one of most prestigious, expensive schools? You pay to get brainwashed by a president and faculty that’s antisemitic and supports genocide?
https://youtu.be/HPawmDHzu7g?si=myaHChNN4fS0lu7L
Those 3 women should be sacked ASAP 🤷🤦