“Mind-blowing” interviews found students stumble in kind with resigned University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill over antisemitism, says journalist Sara Carter.
(Video: Fox News)
As debate raged regarding Harvard University President Dr. Claudine Gay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Dr. Sally Kornbluth’s continued positions of authority, University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill had resigned from her post, but maintained her status as faculty in the wake of controversial congressional testimony from the lot.
Monday, investigative journalist Sara Carter traveled to the UPenn campus in Philadelphia and spoke with students to get a sense of their sentiment after their Ivy League leader and her peers were snared by their own intersectional stumbling blocks in failing to decry campus antisemitism after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.
“A lot of students I spoke with today, Sean, they didn’t know how to answer that very same question, and many of them equated calls for genocide as just someone else’s opinion,” Carter told Fox News host Sean Hannity.
In one clip, a young woman spoke to the difficulty of fielding the questions from New York Rep. Elise Stefanik (R) over rhetoric calling for genocide of the Jews as she told the reporter, “Just because they’re very scrutinized on a national level, I think right now and whatever they say, there’s probably going to be a lot of commentary about it. So I think it was hard for them to answer, even though I don’t think it should have been.”
Another sympathized despite asserting that the question should have been readily answered, “While her position is difficult, the question itself was not that difficult to answer.”
“I expect people to not be violent,” said yet another student who couched, “My personal — obviously — stance on genocide is against it, but I’m not going to force anybody of my political views.”
“Sean, I gotta tell you it was a little bit mind-blowing when you hear people that can’t stand up and say that the genocide of any group of people is wrong, and that they would waver on those answers,” reported Carter who played a clip of a young man plagued by neutrality who said of himself, “I don’t really feel qualified to answer,” when there was, “clearly heated opinions on both sides…”
“But I got to tell you this,” added the journalist, “This isn’t an anomaly,”
“This is the reason why so many people are standing up and speaking out and calling for the removal of the leadership of MIT, Harvard and, we saw what happened here at the University of Pennsylvania with Liz Magill,” she concluded as the squishy positioning of the presidents whose inability to call balls and strikes had permeated academia even in the halls of what were once considered the pinnacle of education and discourse.
In fact, as with Magill, who hadn’t been chased clear off of campus, Gay was supported by Harvard’s governing body in a letter that stated in part, “As members of the Harvard Corporation, we today reaffirm our support for President Gay’s continued leadership of Harvard University. Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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