Calling for ‘genocide of Jews’ not always ‘bullying’: elite college presidents

Demanding the “genocide of Jews” does not always violate school policies against “bullying and harassment,” according to the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik asked each president at Tuesday’s hearing on antisemitism on college campuses whether calling for “intifada” and killing Jews violates their campus policies. All should “resign immediately,” Stefanik said, as a result of their answers.

MIT President Sally Kornbluth said it would if the comments were “targeted at individuals.” Kornbluth said that calls for “intifada” could be “antisemitic depending on the context, when calling for the elimination of the Jewish people.”