East Greenbush, N.Y. — Congresswoman Elise Stefanik joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity to discuss Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s resignation following an Education and the Workforce Committee hearing where President Gay failed to condemn calls for the genocide of Jewish students.
Watch her full interview here.
View highlights from her interview below:
On Harvard President Claudine Gay’s Refusal to Condemn Antisemitism During Testimony:
“My take, Sean, is there is a reason that the testimony of the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT made history as the most viewed testimony ever, with over one billion views and that’s because their testimony was morally bankrupt and pathetic. My question was very simple. It was a moral question: ‘does calling for the genocide of Jews ruin your school’s code of conduct, does it go against your school’s code of conduct?’ And every single one said ‘it depended upon the context.’ We know it does not depend on the context. It should be condemned. It is not that difficult to say that, yet all three failed abysmally, and the world saw it. It is unacceptable that it took Harvard a month to demand the resignation of Claudine Gay. Penn made the right decision immediately but this is after it was forced in front of the world to see. And I believe these university presidents sit atop these institutions that have rotted out and have institutionalized antisemitism, particularly after Hamas’s terrorist attack against Israel in early October. We’ve seen Jewish students assaulted, physically harassed, and facing just vile, vile attacks every single day.”
On University Presidents’ Double Standards When It Comes to Antisemitic Attacks:
“They would not have, Sean, and that’s why it was so pathetic, and it was so clear for everyone who saw that how wrong that testimony was. And I will tell you, what you can’t see in the video, that has now been viewed over one billion times, is there were Jewish students from each of those universities who were at that congressional hearing. And as I was listening to their responses to my question, the university presidents, Jewish students, you can see them shaking just of the abysmal lack of moral leadership. And then, on top of this, you’ve seen just the shredding of academic integrity in Harvard’s case, where it was very clear with this intense scrutiny that Claudine Gay was a plagiarist president, that she had plagiarized nearly fifty excerpts in her work, which is a very limited body of academic work when compared to other Harvard University presidents. And I say this as a Harvard graduate. I graduated from there, from undergrad with honors, and I will tell you students, if you plagiarized you’re expelled.”
