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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Actually considering the situation in the campus and around the world, the university presidents gave wise, reasonable answers. People get infuriated because they don't understand the context. Imagine that students chanting "Free Palestine" and "From River to the Sea" all are labeled antisemitic and accused of calling for genocide of Jews. "Free Palestine" doesn't necessarily mean genocide of Jews. The presidents were just trying to protect the students from persecution.
Sending resources to Israel is currently aiding the attempted genocide of Palestinians in GAZA. Financial aid to countries actively committing genocide is as wrong as committing the act…
Since when do we hold congressional hearings on the feelings of certain of the groups? For Jewish students yes, but not the rest of us. Black students never got congressional hearings. None of the Latino students got congressional hearings. We don’t even have a defense treaty with Israel but we send over tax dollars to them so they can raven torture 13 year-old Palestinian boys. We sensor on the news. No one knows anything about this in the United States unless you listen to the news from other countries. Your either an American when you’re not. You can’t serve two masters. Just because we criticize Israel doesn’t mean we’re anti-Semitic. So what if Zionists feel uncomfortable and can’t continue to manipulate everyone and say it is against all Jews. Because it’s not. Zionists are white supremacists. Period. These congressional hearings should never have happened. No one called for genocide of Jews; they were calling Israelis out for committing genocide against a Palestinians. What manipulation of the facts. The Zionists are manipulating us. And the Zionists are not all Jews. Because not all Jews are Zionists. Zionism has subverted the US
One day in the world of reality knocking on their bauble and she fined themself exposed, leader of "lord of the flies" University.
Jews crying about others using the word genocide while they're actually committing genocide in Gaza💀
Let’s see if they’d still vacillate if just one person walks through their universities holding a banner saying ‘George Floyd doesn’t matter’.
It's the context. It's all about the context. If this was directed at any other group of students of course severe action would be taken. But the context is that it is directed at Jewish students and so it doesn't matter. They didn't just infer it, they said it.
STOP WASTING TAXPAYERS MONEY trying to SHAME people for FREE SPEECH! The only reason the U.S. government wants Americans lockstep with Israel is mainly due to oil & gas interests in the middle east and to secure strategic trade routes with India and Greece to funnel resources and goods. Israel is the U.S.'s attack dog in the middle east. The U.S. uses Israel also to do its bidding and dirty work in that region. Like the young Joe Biden infamously said as senator back in 1986: “If there were not an Israel, we’d have to INVENT one."
The USA of Israel will not end until the people say no to American Zionation – and Lester you shout retire for regurgitation of Zionist propaganda
The scool has other sources of funding. Perhaps the benefactors of HAMAS. Thats why theybare smug and wont fore their presidents.
Notice the smug, bigoted look on the face of the Harvard president as she dodges the question. Also notice how she tried to make it about her personal views, rather than Harvard's code of conduce. She's a neo-Marxian (see her published papers), an advocate of Critical Theory, and a practitioner of standpoint epistemology. There is no question when you look at her papers that she is a veiled racist. Moreover, her attempts at mitigating the backlash are nothing but weasel words. Penn was the least problematic of the 3, but MIT's president was utterly contemptible. All of them – ALL of them – clearly hate Republicans and the one from Harvard is pretty obviously antisemitic.
These women, though educated, are ignorant, biased and completely racist! The should be fired!
I hope they don't owe their positions to just Affirmative Action, Diversity and Inclusivity, coz by the look of it, it sure isn't coz of their leadership prowess.
Ask the same question but replace Jews with trans people and their response would have been very different
Simply anti-Semitic shame !!!!!☹️
Literally a day late and a dollar short!
Israel is committing genocide right now ! Where is that outrage?
Get rid of these "leaders". They only promote hate and arrogance.
Jenoc!de i$ a 2 way $treet. If you can't have a two $tate $olut!on !$rael will fa!l and take the U$A down with !t. God'$ cho$en were never all they were cracked up to be, the Jew$ already cruc!f!ed Chr!$t, !t's Palest!ne'$ turn but I$rael w!ll fa!l, Me$$!ah anyone?
“Poison Ivy League Colleges” 😮
Look, we have plenty of problems in this country, all caused by the Left, but one of them is not people saying bad things about Jews. This is trivia.
Foriegn money silences these presidents. The same "context" cues are never afforded to Christians, conservatives, or any student or faculty who disagree with WOKE ideology. Ever.
Those evil women should not be allowed to resign. They should be fired
Are these Universities, concentration camps or terrorist camps? The Government should cancel their accreditation and licenses and close them down: Harvard, MIT and U Penn. After this who will trust any research or science that comes out of these places? This is a matter of utmost importance and of National Security!!!
I feel they are merely supporting for free speech, although its a double edged sword. Is there really right and wrong in war? It depends on who you ask. Loyd Austin already said it that this could be a potential strategic defeat as the war rages on.