Harvard Faces Backlash After Hiring Former U-Penn President Liz Magill

(VINnews) — Jewish activists are outraged, after the disgraced former president of University of Pennsylvania, has been hired by Harvard University. Liz Magill will join Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession this fall after resigning from UPenn following a congressional hearing in which she defended a culture of antisemitic harassment, and refused to punish or even identify blatant Jew hatred.

In response to the hiring, orthodox Jewish activist Shabbos Kestenbaum posted the following on X:

“BREAKING: Liz Magill, the former disgraced UPenn President, who couldn’t condemn the calls of genocide against Jews, has just been hired by Harvard. This is a slap in the face to Jewish students. She will join her friend Claudine Gay as two equally incompetent “scholars.””

BREAKING: Liz Magill, the former disgraced UPenn President, who couldn’t condemn the calls of genocide against Jews, has just been hired by Harvard. This is a slap in the face to Jewish students. She will join her friend Claudine Gay as two equally incompetent “scholars.” pic.twitter.com/lbGWkdBvyi

— Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) August 28, 2024

By bringing in Magill, Harvard will now have a faculty member who oversaw a steep increase in harassment against Jewish students at UPenn. Magill joins disgraced former Harvard president Claudine Gay on the faculty, who resigned after her testimony in Congress.

Prior to October 7, the school hosted and sponsored a “Palestine Writes Literature Festival” that promoted conspiracy theories about Jews. Before the conference, a swastika was discovered spray-painted on a wall and a man vandalized the campus Hillel building while shouting profanities.

Shabbos Kestenbaum is a Harvard graduate who has filed a lawsuit against the university over its antisemitism. He spoke at the Republican National Convention.

Kestenbaum voted for Bernie Sanders last election, however he said that his views have changed, largely because of what his classmates were doing while Jews were being slaughtered.

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