It has been over a month since I asked the presidents of Harvard, MIT and Penn whether calls for the genocide of Jews violated their campus codes of conduct on bullying and harassment.
Their dithering and morally bankrupt answers were so shocking, the video went globally viral, becoming the most-viewed congressional testimony of all time.
What are the ramifications of a hearing viewed billions of times?
A reckoning. The forced resignation of two Ivy League presidents is just the beginning.
The problem was never just about three people or even three universities.
Their attempt to contextualize genocide of Jews was merely a symptom of decades of moral decay, intellectual laziness and dangerous radical groupthink at elite institutions across society.
Replacing the wallpaper is not enough when there is deep rot within the walls.
To remove that rot, we first need to keep exploring how deep it goes.
That’s why my colleagues and I on the House Education and Workforce Committee under the leadership of Chairwoman Virginia Foxx are conducting an extensive oversight investigation into numerous colleges and universities, including Harvard and its governance body, the Harvard Corporation, which backed the failed leadership of former President Claudine Gay and has done nothing to combat dangerous campus antisemitism.
Read the full op-ed over at The New York Post:
The resignations of @Harvard President Claudine Gay & @Penn President Liz Magill are just the beginning of the reckoning.
Read my op-ed in the @nypost on what comes next.https://t.co/pWaUlImnGv
— Rep. Elise Stefanik (@RepStefanik) January 11, 2024
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