University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill walked again her rhetoric on whether or not calling for the genocide of Jews violated the Ivy League college’s code of conduct on bullying or harassment after she confronted backlash.
“There was a moment during yesterday’s congressional hearing on antisemitism when I was asked if a call for the genocide of Jewish people on our campus would violate our policies. In that moment, I was focused on our university’s long-standing policies aligned with the U.S. Constitution, which says that speech alone is not punishable,” President Magill stated in an X submit on Wednesday night.
“I was not focused on, but I should have been, 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,” President Magill stated.
“It’s evil. Plain and simple,” President Magill stated.
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Liz Magill, President of University of Pennsylvania, testifies earlier than the House Education and Workforce Committee on the Rayburn House Office Building on December 05, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY, blasted the president’s video, calling it a “pathetic PR clean up attempt.”
“This pathetic PR clean up attempt by Penn shockingly took over 24 hours to try to fix the moral depravity of the answers under oath yesterday,” Rep. Stefanik wrote in a submit on X. “And there was not even an apology. By the way, the questions were asked over and over and over again.”
“No statement will fix what the world saw and heard yesterday.”
House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The Ivy League president stated {that a} name for genocide of the Jewish folks could be categorized as harassment or intimidation, regardless of her earlier feedback saying that it could “depend on the context.”
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“A call for genocide of Jewish people is threatening, it is intentionally meant to terrify people who have been subjected to hatred for centuries and were the victims of mass genocide in the Holocaust. In my view, it would be harassment or intimidation,” President Magill stated.
Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, throughout a House Education and the Workforce Committee listening to in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
President Magill stated that as a result of unprecedented “signs of hate,” the college’s insurance policies on hate speech and intimidation “need to be clarified and evaluated.”
“For decades under multiple UPenn presidents and consistent with most universities, Penn’s policies have been guided by the Constitution and the law,” President Magill stated. “In today’s world where we are seeing signs of hate proliferating across our campus and our world in a way not seen in years, these policies need to be clarified and evaluated.”
“As president, I’m committed to a safe, secure and supportive environment, so all members of our community can thrive,” President Magill stated, ending the handle. “We can, and we will get this right.”
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