The university presidents were right and American Jews’ moral panic is wrong
Joining a right-wing war on higher education will not make us any safer
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Fast Forward Julie Platt, chair of Jewish federations group, is leading Penn’s board amid leadership transition
Platt’s role on the Penn board means the same Jewish philanthropist and communal leader is on the front lines of two of the most prominent organizations reshaped by Oct. 7 and its aftermath
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Fast Forward University of Pennsylvania president resigns after widely-panned remarks about Jewish genocide
President Liz Magill had come under fire for what many deemed a callously legalistic response to a question about antisemitism
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Fast Forward UPenn trustees call emergency meeting as calls mount for president to resign over remarks about Jewish genocide
The trustees' emergency meeting Sunday comes on the heels of major donors' calls for Liz Magill's resignation
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Fast Forward Rabbi David Wolpe resigns from Harvard antisemitism committee over president’s ‘painfully inadequate testimony’ on campus antisemitism
Wolpe, who is a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, has built a reputation as one of the country’s most prominent rabbis and Jewish thinkers
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Opinion Calling for genocide is antisemitic. Why couldn’t the president of my alma mater say so?
University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill’s inability to unequivocally condemn antisemitism reflect a broader problem.
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Opinion University presidents waffled in condemning calls for genocide. Jews are on our own as much as ever
To suggest that antisemitic hate speech is problematic only when it violates university policy is a profound failure of leadership
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Fast Forward Criticism mounts against UPenn president after she declines to say calls for genocide of Jews constitute harassment
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was the latest to lambast a contentious exchange between presidents of elite universities and a congressional committee examining the spike in antisemitism on campuses in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war
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