Harvard, MIT presidents face increased calls to ‘do the right thing’ after UPenn’s Magill resigned over response to antisemitism

Former University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill’s resignation has been met with celebration — and calls for the heads of Harvard and MIT to also resign over their failures to condemn antisemitism on campus.

Many saw Magill’s resignation on Saturday as the beginning of woke university presidents facing consequences for failing to condemn student calls for the genocide of Jews — though others believed it was a win for the censorship of pro-Palestinian voices.

“One down. Two to go,” New York Rep. Elise Stefanik posted on X following Magill’s announcement.

“Harvard and MIT do the right thing,” the Republican said, pleading for the presidents there to step down as well.

Stefanik made a name for herself after asking Magill point blank whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate the university’s code of conduct at a congressional hearing last week, where the UPenn leader testified alongside Harvard University President Claudine Gay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth.

Magill infamously replied that “it is a context-dependent decision.”

Stefanik said Magill’s resignation “is only the very beginning of addressing the pervasive rot of antisemitism that has destroyed the most ‘prestigious’ higher education institutions in America.”

She warned that Harvard and MIT can now “anticipate a robust and comprehensive Congressional investigation of all facets of their institutions’ negligent perpetration of antisemitism including administrative, faculty, funding and overall leadership and governance.”

The organization StopAntisemitism also called Magill’s resignation “great news.”

It said her ouster came after Magill allowed “the once prestigious university to fall into a chaotic cesspool of Jew hatred this past year.

“Let’s hope Harvard’s President Gay is next,” StopAntisemitism posted on X.

Billionaire Bill Ackman, who has called for Magill, Gay and Kornbluth’s resignation, meanwhile, celebrated the news of Magill’s resignation by saying that “morality has spoken.”

He previously said there is “hope for UPenn” if Magill resigns.

But others saw the push for Magill’s resignation as censorship for pro-Palestine protests, which have persisted on the Pennsylvania campus with protesters chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — a chant many claim is calling for the elimination of the Jewish state of Israel.