Harvard President Makes a Fool Out of Herself While Facing Questioning From Rep. Elise Stefanik

Rep. Elise Stefanik held the presidents of the nation’s top universities’ feet to the fire during a congressional hearing on the regular anti-semitic protests on campuses since the October 7 Hamas terror attack. 

During an exchange with Harvard President Claudine Gay, Stefanik began to ask “Harvard students calling for the mass murder of African-Americans is not protected free speech at Harvard, correct?” 

As Gay tried to dodge the question, Stefanik reminded her that it was a simple yes or no question. 

“Let me ask you this. You are president of Harvard, so I assume you’re familiar with the term intifada, correct?” Stefanik asked.

“I’ve heard that term, yes,” Gay replied.

“And you understand that the use of the term intifada in the context of the Israeli-Arab conflict is indeed a call for violent armed resistance against the state of Israel, including  violence against civilians and the genocide of Jews. Are you aware of that?” Stefanik asked.

From there, Gay simply refused to directly answer, only eventually conceding that calling for an intifada was “at odds with the values of Harvard” but wouldn’t answer if anything would actually be done about it. 

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Stefanik also questioned the Presidents of MIT and UPenn, who refused to answer what whether or not calling for genocide of Jews counts as “bullying or harassment” of Jewish students. 

Harvard faced immense criticism for their delayed response to issuing a statement on the October 7 attack, and the reaction many student groups had to the attacks. On the night of the terror attack, a coalition of over 30 Harvard student groups posted an open letter claiming that Israel was “entirely responsible” for the terrorists who murdered its citizens. 

Evidently, wearing a “there are only two genders” t-shirt would cause more alarm to the people running Harvard, MIT, or UPenn than calls for genocide against Jews.

Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros