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Richard Luscombe

Billionaires and free speech advocates wade into US college antisemitism fray

MIT Claudine Gay United States Elise Stefanik Liz Magill Harvard University UPenn Sally Kornbluth The New York Times
Sitting in a row, from left to right, one Black woman and three white women.
From left, university presidents Claudine Gay of Harvard, Liz Magill of UPenn, Pamela Nadell of American and Sally Kornbluth of MIT during a House hearing on Tuesday. Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Leaders of three prestigious US universities remained under pressure on Friday as a controversy about antisemitism on campus, inflamed by their appearance at a congressional hearing earlier in the week, showed little sign of abating, with free speech advocates and billionaire college donors wading into the fray.

Liz Magill, the president of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), survived an emergency meeting of its board of trustees on Thursday amid backlash to her “disastrous” comments to the hearing investigating rising campus antisemitism since the beginning of the Israel-Gaza war.

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