Students & Lawmakers Gather To Denounce Antisemitism

December 11, 2023 5:11 am

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Students, lawmakers and religious leaders have joined forces at a temple in Philadelphia to strongly denounce antisemitism on college campuses and in their communities. The gathering Sunday at Congregation Rodeph Shalom comes one day after University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill (pictured) resigned amid criticism over her testimony at a congressional hearing. Magill was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy. Harvard President Claudine Gay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth also took part in the congressional hearing. They have also drawn criticism for their lawyerly answers.