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Harvard, Penn and MIT urged by 74 US members of Congress to dismiss leaders

Letter from politicians comes amid anger at three presidents’ Capitol Hill testimony over antisemitism
The presidents of MIT, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard were criticised for testimony in Congress in which they struggled to state clearly their stance on calls for genocide against Jews

Pressure mounted on the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after 74 members of Congress — mostly Republicans — signed a letter urging their removal for failing to tackle antisemitism on their campuses.

The letter followed a disastrous appearance by Harvard’s Claudine Gay, Penn’s Elizabeth Magill and MIT’s Sally Kornbluth at a congressional hearing on Tuesday in which they struggled to muster a clear response when asked repeatedly by representative Elise Stefanik whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated their campus codes of conduct.

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