Seventy-four House members sent a bipartisan letter to the governing
boards of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and the University of Pennsylvania, calling on all three to take immediate
action to remove the president of each respective institution.

The letter, obtained by Fox News Digital, was signed by 74 House of
Representatives members from both parties, and specifically calls out MIT
President Sally Kornbluth, UPenn President Liz Magill, and Harvard
President Claudine Gay, for failing to say if calls for the genocide of
Jewish people would violate university policies during a congressional
hearing Tuesday.

The letter was signed by Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.; Rep. Steve Scalise,
R-La.; Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J.; Rep. Mike Ezell, R-Miss., and many
more.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., among those who signed the letter, asked Gay,
Magill and Kornbluth if calling for the genocide of Jews would violate
their university's policies.

"If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment. Yes," Magill
responded, later adding, "It is a context-dependent decision."

"It can be, depending on the context," Gay responded.

Kornbluth responded to the question, saying it would be considered
harassment only if it's "targeted at individuals, not making public
statements" and if it was "pervasive and severe."

"There is no context in which calls for the genocide of Jews are
acceptable rhetoric. Their failure to unequivocally condemn calls for the
systematic murder of Jews is deeply alarming. It stands in stark contrast
to the principles we expect leaders of top academic institutions to
uphold," the bipartisan letter states. "It is hard to imagine any Jewish
or Israeli student, faculty, or staff feeling safe when presidents of your
member institutions could not say that calls for the genocide of Jews
would have clear consequences on your campus.

"If calls for genocide of the Jewish people are not in violation of your
universities' policies, then your universities are operating under a clear
double standard."

Also in the letter, House members called on the governing boards of each
institution to immediately remove Gay, Magill, and Kornbluth.

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"Given this moment of crisis, we demand that your boards immediately
remove each of these presidents from their positions and that you provide
an actionable plan to ensure that Jewish and Israeli students, teachers,
and faculty are safe on your campuses," the members of Congress stated.
"Anything less than these steps will be seen as your endorsement of what
Presidents Gay, Magill, and Kornbluth said to Congress and an act of
complicity in their antisemitic posture. The world is watching � you can
stand with your Jewish students and faculty, or you can choose the side of
dangerous antisemitism."

Magill would later walked back her comments in a video posted to X on
Wednesday.

"There was a moment during yesterday's congressional hearing on
antisemitism when I was asked if a call for the genocide of Jewish people
on our campus would violate our policies. In that moment, I was focused on
our university's long-standing policies aligned with the U.S.
Constitution, which says that speech alone is not punishable," Magill
said. "I was not focused on, but I should have been, on the irrefutable
fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the
most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate."

In an interview with The Harvard Crimson published Thursday, Gay
apologized for her remarks before Congress earlier in the week, saying "I
am sorry�Words matter."

"When words amplify distress and pain, I don�t know how you could feel
anything but regret," Gay said. "I got caught up in what had become at
that point, an extended, combative exchange about policies and procedures.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, an MIT spokesperson said that "MIT and
our president, Sally Kornbluth, reject antisemitism in all its forms," and
pointed to a statement from the school's governing board.

"The MIT Corporation chose Sally to be our president for her outstanding
academic leadership, her judgment, her integrity, her moral compass, and
her ability to unite our community around MIT�s core values. She has done
excellent work in leading our community, including in addressing
antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of hate, which we reject
utterly at MIT. She has our full and unreserved support," the MIT
Corporation wrote.

Fox News Digital reached out to Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania
for comment.

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