University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigns amid anti-Semitism controversy
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Liz Magill, the president of the University of Pennsylvania, resigned amid criticism and calls from Congress to remove her from office over her handling of anti-Semitism on campus. Congress has also targeted the presidents of Harvard and MIT, as university sponsors are withdrawing funding over the issue.
The president of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, who has been criticized for her stance on anti-Semitism on campus. campus, has resigned. This was reported by Reuters, according to UNN.
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Magill was one of three university presidents who were criticized after they criticized after they testified at a congressional hearing on the the rise of anti-Semitism on university campuses since the outbreak of the war between between Israel and Hamas in October.
US congressmen have called for the firing of three rectors of major universities for anti-Semitism at their institutions.
74 congressmen demanded the removal of the rectors of of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Institute of Technology. They were accused of failing to combat outbreaks of anti-Semitism on campuses after Hamas' attack on Israel.
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Earlier it became known that sponsors of American universities began to refuse financial support for universities because of insufficiently harsh criticism of the actions of the Palestinian group Hamas in Israel. Harvard University, in particular, is at risk of losing multimillion-dollar funding, Stanford and Pennsylvania universities, among others.