Harvard President asked if "calling for genocide of Jews" is against policy 

“If the Jew did not exist the antisemite would invent him.” -JP Sarte

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it ... Depends on the context.

Let's not let one go... Both Magill *and* Gay had smiles on their faces. I don't know why Gay gets a pass on this.

Dr. Gay simply believes that the Jews in Israel are "occupyers," and that the Arabs have the sole rights to that land. So her response is predicated on that belief. Her mindset is driven by a disdain for Israelis in the land. He believes (yes, Dr. Gay) that Israelis should be banished from that land. Simple as that.

An embarrassment for our country and these universities. And the questioner missed a great opportunity… “In what context is calling for genocide ok then?”

What’s with all the creepy smiling by these university presidents?

The real question is...... How did they all get that job?👀🙄 I'm doubting they got it because of their IQ and knowledge of 🇺🇲 history. I'm just saying 🤷🏻‍♂️ We need to fix these 🇺🇲 college's. No more of this hiring based on gender and ethnicity and political affiliation or installed by anti 🇺🇲 billionaires. It should be based on hard work and IQ. Knowledge of World History. No more politically biased nonsense. Everyone in these colleges need to be politically neutral as well. Neutral to the religious as well. It shouldn't matter if you're Christian, Jewish or Muslim. All welcomed as long as they're not pushing their religion down everyone's throats. Im just saying. Harvard used to be one of our best colleges. This is ridiculous.

Wow not a definitive yes?!

Its just painful to watch, can imagine paying billions to study there, when they literally can tell you directly that your life cost nothing for them, you need to have some proper context to be allowed to live your life

These “leaders” are ridiculous!

Smirk on her face says everything !!!

I normally can acknowledge the rationale on both sides of an argument, but I am baffled as to why a president of a university would refuse to agree that students calling for genocide against any race or ethnic group is unacceptable.

If they keep their jobs they'll win all the way.

LOL! Hey Ms President of Harvard, genocide can't be targeted at an individual. If you comprehended the definition of the word, you'd know that.

My guess is that the antisemitic students protesting at the universities have been recorded doing so. They can be recognised. My guess is also that these same students will be looking for jobs or teaching opportunities down the road; next year or the year after. And many of those positions will be in companies or institutions funded or supported by people with Jewish backgrounds. It seems to me that those organisations would be well within their rights to reject applicants who obviously disagree - show no respect towards - the fundamental, core beliefs of these companies and institutions. Don't hire these woke activists... hold them accountable.

Defund these shools

They more frightened of their students than Congress!!!

Shame on them. In US Criminal Justice system, according to the US Penal Code, verbal assault is not just harassment. It is a distinctive, separate crime punishable under title 18 USC. Yelling at people that you want to kill them ( to commit genocide or homicide ) is not free speech, it is death threat (assault and aggravated assault shown by the physical manifestation - i.e. police was needed to protect Jews against the mob), and hence it falls under criminal assault that incites the mob to physical violence and to commit genocide, to kill (Jews).

It's absolutely infuriating how she had the audacity to smile at such a question. It's like she's completely devoid of any empathy or understanding. Her reaction is nothing short of pure psychopathy.

Amazing that they missed that question!! It really makes them look dumb or that they had a prepared response given to them. It also looks like they all decided and colluded on their response beforehand

Its funny years ago these people were calling Hitler the worst human imaginable and a mass murderer. 80 years later and they are agreeing with him. God Bless us all.

What I learned from this is its worse to misgender someone than calling for genocide of a group of people

And this is why we have more lawyers than handyman. You can’t even answer a direct question without fearing getting sued.

How funny is the way she smiles and nods her face at 1:24! She thinks she delivered a very smart answer...

The Harvard president should not have a job when she cannot call out hate in the simplest form.

It is time to get the hateful anti-American leaders out of higher education. I feel sorry for students in today's college system.

Amazing how fast that smirk got wiped from her face when someone pulled funding for some major endowment or something like that. Now she's backpedaling and tripping over herself to rewrite policy. I'd pay more attention to updating the resume lady, I think you are going to need it.

Elise Stefanik is the new Chuck Norris.

The smirk on the President of UPenn's face as she refused to answer the question was disgusting!

All non-responsive answers as lawyers would say. Hope the wealthy donors close their wallets.

That smirk on her face is all the context I need. Obviously, the University Presidents had collaboration on how they were all going to answer for their individual universities. It is hard to tell who the radicals are the students or university leadership.

Not sure why they expected them to be able fabricate policy. They stated the universities policy. Move onto the next question.

They are academics, they don’t answer yes or no questions without context in ANY circumstance

Sounds like they all got together to get their 'answers' 'straight' before questioning. Or they all had the same legal team give them these statements...

all federal grants, contracts, payments and reimbursements to harvard university and mit should be frozen until these presidents resign. i am a harvard alum from currier house.

Makes me sick that we marched with them in the civil rights movement!

I think these elite educators would have been better served to immediately resign instead of answering these questions the way they did.

Unbelievable! Plainly flabbergasting…these people have zero shame! Resignation is not adequate… fire them and then prosecute them for hate crimes! Where the hell is the DOJ!?!?

So, by their reasoning, the calling for the extermination of any race of people, may not be hate speech or even harassment because it rests upon the context? The fact these presidents have to pause and think before answering such a question is chilling frightening! Our colleges and universities are in serious serious trouble!

Antisemitism lives in the foundations of human society and human nature. The human ego-the desire to enjoy at the expense of others and nature-evolves throughout history and during a person’s life. The more it grows, the more it feels an opposite force also dwelling within. That opposite force is called a “point in the heart.” Contrary to our egoistic desires that wish solely to absorb pleasures into themselves, the point in the heart is a desire that has potential to develop into a desire that loves, gives and positively connects to others. The point in the heart is also known as the seed of the soul, as we can develop it to discover our soul-the connection that underlies those very points. The realization of the potential encased in this small point of desire is the ability to rise above the human ego, where instead of detaching from one another through our growing egoism, i.e. increasingly prioritizing self-benefit over benefiting others, we instead prioritize the benefit of others and positive human connection. The point in the heart is the opposite of our egoistic nature. There are people who host only the negative egoistic force, and there are people who have both the negative egoistic force and the positive altruistic force. When both positive and negative forces coexist in us, then we become called “Jews” or “Israel” according to our inner essence. Likewise, if we solely host the negative egoistic force with no revelation yet of the point in the heart, then we are called “nations of the world” according to that essence. We underwent several stages of development throughout history. The point in the heart first surfaced throughout human society in ancient Babylon. The Babylonians who felt the inner urge to seek something deeper in life beyond the earthly egoistic desires joined Abraham, who taught a method for how to nurture the point in the heart in order to rise above the ego and positively connect. Abraham organized the Babylonians who wanted to study with him into a group, and he called this group “Israel,” which is made up of the words “Yashar Kel” (“straight to God”), i.e. people who aim themselves directly at the attainment of nature’s upper force of love, bestowal and connection, which is opposed to the force existing in human beings, the force of reception. Since Abraham’s time, the two groups-Israel and the nations of the world-have undergone much development. Some from the Israel camp left the group to pursue their natural egoistic inclinations, i.e. with an inclination to the nations of the world, while some from the nations of the world felt that they possess a special closeness and connection, which draws them to Israel. In other words, Jews are not a nationality, but they are people who host the point in the heart, which associates them with the positive force of nature, and which is opposite to the egoistic force that we are born and raised with by nature. The source of antisemitism is in the contrast and conflict between the two opposite desires of our inborn egoism and the point in the heart that can develop our ability to rise above the human ego.

... it's Unbelievable.. - Why is this Ms.Magill smiling?.. - I do not understand... - what's so funny about this case??... / what makes her smiling? 😞...

Don't donate money to these colleges, don't send your children there, don't patronize their athletic events

And just like that nobody felt bad about Affirmative Action being eliminated.

These Presidents are considered the best and the brightest? Bravo Rep. Stefanik!

Bloomberg, please provide timestamps. the entire hearing is 5 hours and i'd like to locate these segments so i can hear the rest of Ms. Stefanik's questioning.

Asking academics a yes or no question is a slam dunk asking for trouble. 🎉

Shameful beyond all recognition of shame

We're not allowed to criticize those people.

It is shameful; It's pathetic and it's abominable on the part of this congresswoman Elise Stefanik who wants to be a superwoman and who needs advertising spotlights to disseminate her gray brand image on a large scale. Because we should never address a dean of a famous university as if she were facing an intelligence agent during a police interrogation

This is VILE

How can we allow colleges to be centers for free thinkers? McCarthy would never have put up with this.

The smugness and arrogance of these three presidents. Unbelievable.

Oh my and these people are leading our schools

The phrase 'the genocide of Jews' now sounds weird to me

What's even more Incredulous is that their Responses were clearly coordinated. They all enlisted the same fatuous phrase in response to the question, claiming it only violates code of conduct if it escalates to "conduct"

Freedom of speech doesnt stop just because you dont like what the person is saying. Simply saying something is not enough. You must also ACT in order to break the law.

This is shameful, they should all resign.

These presidents r so so emberessing themselves!! Shameful creatures!!!!🤦‍♀️✊️👊👊☠️☠️🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

These "scholars" tried to sound sophisticated and it backfired big time..

'Conduct', i.e., actually killing Jews, rather just threating to do so, 'can be' (sic) considered 'bullying and harrasement'. I would like to see the c.vs of these acadmeic imposters. I wouldn't allow to teach at a nursery school.

I think they have listed to too much Kanye West

She answered the question,"only if it turns into conduct then it can be harassment!" Meaning, only if they start killing Jews!!! , then it CAN be harassment.... She was very clear on how amoral she is !!!

00:30, 02:28 When Magill said context, a fellow up question might have been, "Can you give me an example of what Context?"

Not sure if I’m the only one that noticed this, but when dr gay is talking the guy behind her is nodding his head with her words. Probably showing he told her the exact words to say.

The smirk says it all

Jewish hatred needs verbal circus as defense ! 😮

Not the best response, but it was a loaded question. Anti Israeli protests on colleges aren’t calling for genocide. Hurting your feelings is not anti semitism.

This is so unsettling.

Horrendous....this is not going to end up right

Intifada means risings up. Where did the genocide of jews definition come from ?. The original chant was " There is only one solution it further revolution " . Intifada , rising up or revolution are interchangeable.

I'd love to hear more about her context depended decision.

I honestly don't know if to laugh or to cry...😅😅

The smirk on the Penn president says it all. What a snot.

These are the same people who would tell you that not using someone's preferred prounoun "is" bullying and harassment.

So what she says that its a violation only when targeted against specific people. If its just a general calls for genocide, seems to be a-ok then

She asked her if "calling for genocide of jews" was bullying or harassment. Magill and Gay answered appropriately. If someone says it when they are alone or with their friends or write it in a paper, it's free speech and not bullying or harassment. It most definitely a context dependent decision as to whether or not it's bullying and harassment. Sadly Stefanik has limited understanding of what is legally harassment. The 2 Presidents are talking technical aspects of what is legally harassment.

The answer should be: "No. Calling for genocide for all ethnicity and religion is against policy." Simple.

What the, what?!?!?! It it turns into action? Bruh these times are crazy

The DEI hires -coming from humanities departmet. A bunch of confused people. Hire instead from people with background in real science.

They cut out the part where the questioner falsely includes the term "Intifada" under the definition of a "call for genocide," which is why they insisted that it depends on the context. This video itself is taken out of context lol

"Is the calling for genocide of black Americans against your code of conduct?" Answers on a postcard as to how they would have responded.

I wonder if a burning cross ourside Harvard's faculty room would also "depend on the context"...

The real question is whether receiving Qatari money is also "context dependent".

This is purely bizarre. Has the world gone mad?

She should have asked for the specific context when its ok to call for the genocide and see what they would have answered. I mean on a scale of 0 to 10 on dumbness with 0 being the dumbest they are at -∞

If the question was "does calling for the genocide of gays constitute harassment yes or no " would answers have been different??? Thar ya be! Of course they would have said yes... ..but Jews....its "context dependant". Think about that.

Calling any communities genocide should be against the policy how come these kind of people got top job

My GOD how in the word this stupid racist biased people manage to be at the head of such of prestigious institutions. what is going on in the US ? Donors should ask for their immediate resignation

Omg she is too involved with yes or no! These presidents knows their own legal conduct policies and how to handle these type of conduct.

What took them so long to resign? What an outrage!

Penn President Liz Magill, Harvard President Claudine Gay, and MIT President Sally Kornbluth,

The by race and by gender have gone too far to give them the jobs! It’s a national shame!

Let's not just look at first year Constitutional law responses made by these people in power. This should be criminal. Conspire with non-victim parties to incite violence and to cause harm which has been done..knowing it is being amplified over media such as Tic Tok (Who owns Tic Tok? - do they have a hand in this game?). Spreading to millions. Who outside the US is donating tons of money to these schools? Who is working with these presidents to incite such violence and cause harm? Who outside the US is giving them so much money that they permit the professors to teach hate and anger to students and incite harm on targeting United States students? These people are creating ideas of mob assault. Mobs of people are attacking small groups and individuals, and businesses. Overt actions of threats and violence is occurring. People are afraid. A mob of people in gangs such as MS 13 would be arrested for such actions. Why is it ok for these people to promote such conduct. How are their actions and/or inactions not criminal? Freedom of speech. We are a democracy unlike some of these countries who kill for woman for trying to have a voice and freedom. But there needs to be weight given to the other side when criminal conduct is inciting violence. People in power of some of the most powerful educational institutions think and plan to allow policies calling for the genocide of a targeted group. How many steps must be taken to achieve a criminal act. Well it seems very clear - there is now violence within the United States based on what is happening at these schools. Smiling and laughing and abusive statements made in public forum by these presidents. It is one thing to have freedom to voice opinions and to take legal steps to correct something. It is another to purposely and with intent to inflame young minds which have not yet fully developed. It is easy to mold these young minds in any chosen direction. Shame on you. What is different from you and a MS -13 leaders? And or any other leaders who act as terrorists?

Calling for the Genocide of any ppls is bullying too right? Like Afro-American, they went through worst-case than any nation?

Waiting on Gay and Kornbluth to resign, as well. Since they clearly colluded in lock-step on their responses, they are equally culpable.

harvard racist AF man they support jq and knaye

wherever politicians get in, it starts to stink! although politicians claim that they want "better"...

The term Semites include Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites, Hebrews, some Ethiopians (including the Amhara and the Tigrayans), and Aramaean tribes.

They just can’t say it is oh my

Gay must step down. What a f'n disgrace. Take away the University's tax exempt status immediately.