The White House launched a shot across the bow of Harvard University on Wednesday, ripping into President Claudine Gay, who during a Congressional hearing on Tuesday refused to say that calls for the genocide of Jews by some on the school’s campus constitutes harassment.
“We just witnessed the worst massacre suffered by the Jewish people since the Holocaust, the latest atrocities in a heartbreaking, genocidal pattern that goes back thousands of years,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement.
“It’s unbelievable that this needs to be said: calls for genocide are monstrous and antithetical to everything we represent as a country,” he noted, an obvious shot at Gay and the university presidents of UPenn and MIT, who also wouldn’t say that calls for the genocide of Jews would violate their schools’ codes of conduct.
“Any statements that advocate for the systematic murder of Jews are dangerous and revolting – and we should all stand firmly against them, on the side of human dignity and the most basic values that unite us as Americans,” Bates added.
Billionaire Harvard alum and legendary investor Bill Ackman also attacked Gay and the other university heads for their stunningly woeful responses to questions about anti-Semitism on Harvard’s campus.
“The answers they gave reflect the profound moral bankruptcy of Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth,” Ackman wrote in a lengthy scathing post on X. “Representative Elise Stefanik was so shocked with the answers that she asked each of them the same question over and over again, and they gave the same answers over and over again.”
“In short, they said: It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews,” Ackman wrote.
Harvard attempted to do some damage control on Wednesday, with Gay issuing a statement saying that her words were misconstrued.
“There are some who have confused a right to free expression with the idea that Harvard will condone calls for violence against Jewish students,” she wrote. “Let me be clear: Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic group are vile. They have no place at Harvard, and those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account.”
Her words, it should be noted, were not twisted or misconstrued in any way. If you have any doubt about that, just watch the testimony from Gay and the other university presidents again below.
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SAY FREEDOM OF SPEACH ALLOWS TO CALL FOR THE GENOCIDE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE
I THINK THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD COUNTER THAT BY PROHIBITING ANY FEDERAL DOLLARS
TO GO IN ANYWAY THAT WOULD BENEFIT THESE UNIVERSITIES , IF THEY DON’T AGRESSIVELY THIS PHENOMINUM. THEY HAVE A RIGHT AND THE GOVERNMENT HAS A RIGHT AS WELL. FURTHERMORE THE GOVERNMENT HAS A RIGHT TO GO ON A NATIONAL COMMERCIAL BASHING COMPAIGN AGAINST THESE UNIVERSITIES. GOVERNMENT PLEASE PAY ATTENTION
THANKS
She must be forced to resign
It’s very very simple. After yesterday’s show on Capitol Hill, we now know that this whole thing about hate speech is a bunch of garbage, it’s a libtard invention that’s not applicable to them. If you could say what you want about the Jews, then it’s fair to say that if I call someone a very stupid ugly looking n-word then that would mean it’s okay because it wasn’t violence. And who said it would lead to violence.
You can’t have it both ways.
Gay needs to resign. She cannot lead a complex university like Harvard and she is at odds with the Jewish community there.
HOW ABOUT GENOCIDE AGAINST BLACKS OR ARABS? DEPENDS ON CONTEXT?
It is mind boggling to say the least. They all need to be forced to resign – without pay.
According to their testimony, one can call and chant for all blacks to be killed but it won’t go against their code of conduct (whatever that means!) because no one “individual” was targeted. Seriously brainless!
Bought cowards. They should all resign and scratch themselves to think and feel – from the irritations of ‘poison ivy’ from which they enticed others.
We are all clear to say the N-word,
In context of course
I don’t believe in punishing “bullying” and “harassment” among adults in university or elsewhere. but since they have such rules it is a clear violation. More importantly calling for the genocide of Jews should be a federal crime of of inciting violence since violence against Jew occurs in these communities and it reasonable that they were encouraged by these ‘demonstrations’. Even if no violence actually occurs in the United States it should still be a crime of encouraging support for terrorist groups around Israel.
Ultimately by going to university you are gaining a skill. and that skill causing people to pay 50% of their salary turds “taxes”… so not only that kosher yidim are sacrificing their yideshe life (by avoiding Jewish criteria subjects.. to gain a better (financial life)… now we faced with racism inside institutions that are privately owned… מילא CUNY… must be a miserable situation, mamesh a kivsa bain shivim zehevim
Man, I wish they would have been asked along these lines: Would you consider a protest calling for the end of the trans movement, hate speech that must be silenced?
You know, just for context…
from wikipedia:
Gay spent much of her childhood first in New York City, and then in Saudi Arabia, where her father worked for the U.S. Army
Calling for the execution of Harvard Presidents –plural– is also ok.
These three sadistic vile women were smirking at times and clearly enjoying themselves during this testimony. It was the backlash that they were unprepared for.
For someone whose last name could engender hate, one would this individual would have a little more of an opinion that is protective of all peoples. If this is what “Harvard” professes, why would any CEO wish to hire a Harvard grad? Or U-Penn or MIT? They’re schools that seemingly injects hate and intolerance of man. They’re schools that likely instills hate and intolerance. Is that what they’re molding the minds of the future with?
Folks can damage Harvard (and other Ivy League) reputations the most by refusing to hire candidates from those institutions. If students found out that they would have a greater likelihood of landing a job from having a community college listed under the education section of their resumes, essentially Harvard’s reputation would become trash. Don’t hire candidates from Harvard!