Harvard is swarmed by billboard trucks demanding president Claudine Gay be fired as she faces mounting pressure after disastrous anti-Semitism testimony on Capitol Hill

Backlash against Harvard President Claudine Gay reached the gates of her college today after she said calling for the genocide of Jews could not violate its rules.

Two truckloads of billboards reenacting her speech to Congress were sent to the Massachusetts campus hours after fellow college leader Elizabeth Magill was forced to resign as president of the University of Pennsylvania.

Harvard billboards called for Gay’s ouster, just as similar billboards recently appeared on the University of Pennsylvania campus calling for Magill’s resignation.

The pair faced a furious backlash for their disastrous appearance alongside MIT President Sally Kornbluth on Tuesday as they struggled to decide whether calls for the destruction of an ethnic group amounted to “bullying or persecution.”

Billionaire donors have threatened to withhold funding from elite colleges until all three are gone, and the activists behind yesterday’s stunt were confident their time was up.

“One down, two to go,” said a source who used the trucks in Pennsylvania and Harvard. Fox News Digital.

The three leaders were called before the House Education and Workforce Committee on Tuesday by lawmakers concerned about reports of rising anti-Semitism at top universities.

They faced heated questioning from committee chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), but were unable to prove that calling for the genocide of Jews on campus definitely constituted persecution.

“This is just the beginning of the fight against the pervasive rot of anti-Semitism that has destroyed America’s most ‘prestigious’ institutions of higher education,” Stefanik wrote Saturday night.

Adding: “Harvard and MIT are doing the right thing. The world is watching.

Just minutes after Magill announced her resignation, Upenn Board of Trustees Chairman Scott Bock also resigned.

Bok Vice Chairman Julie Beren Platt has been appointed interim chairman of the board.

In a statement released Saturday evening, Magill wrote: “It has been an honor to serve as president of this wonderful institution.

“It has been an honor to work with our faculty, students, staff, alumni and community members to advance Penn’s vital mission.”

In his resignation letter, Bock called Magill “a good man” who is “not in the least bit anti-Semitic” but made a “mistake” after “months of relentless external attacks.”

“Today, following the resignation of the President of the University of Pennsylvania and the related meetings of the Board of Regents, I submitted my resignation as Chairman of the University Board of Regents, effective immediately,” Bock said.

Gay told a congressional committee that calls for “Jewish genocide” on Harvard’s campus would only constitute persecution “depending on the context.”

Stefanik pressed the issue on whether Harvard would punish students or applicants who advocate killing Jews.

Gay responded: “Such hateful, reckless and offensive language is personally disgusting to me.”

She said the university has a “robust policy” in which people are held accountable when speech turns into behavior, such as bullying, stalking or intimidation.

“We are committed to freedom of expression and give broad space to freedom of expression, even when views are objectionable, outrageous or offensive,” she added.

Gay apologized for her remarks Thursday as the backlash intensified, telling the student newspaper The Crimson that she “became caught up in what at the time became an extended, combative exchange about policies and procedures.”

“What I needed to do at that moment was to return to my guiding truth, which was that calls for violence against our Jewish community—threats to our Jewish students—have no place at Harvard and will never go unheeded.” ,’ she added.

But her seeming ambiguity in the face of a surge in campus conflict following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack prompted a furious response from Stefanik, now broadcast on a van with billboards outside.

“It doesn’t depend on the context,” the congresswoman told her. “The answer is yes, and that is why you should resign.”

Billionaire Harvard alum Bill Ackman, who donated $26 million to Harvard in 2014, called for the resignations of all three women.

Elon Musk agreed that it was time for them to leave and said the hearings clearly demonstrated their liberal bias.

Harvard Hillel, the school’s leading Jewish organization, said it was “appalled by the need to state the obvious.”

“President Gay’s refusal to draw a line around threats of anti-Semitic speech as a violation of Harvard policy is deeply shocking, given the explicit provisions of the code of conduct prohibiting this type of bullying and harassment,” a spokesman said after the hearing.

“We are appalled to have to state the obvious: calling for the genocide of Jews is always a hateful incitement to violence.

“President Gay’s failure to adequately condemn this speech calls into question her ability to protect Jewish students on the Harvard campus.”

Magill released a derogatory video statement attempting to explain her failure to condemn calls for genocide of Jewish people on college campuses.

She said she was not “focused” on the issue and said she wanted to “make it clear” that calls for genocide were “evil, plain and simple,” although she said the blame lay with her university’s policies and constitution, and not on her university’s policies and constitution. with her.

Magill said: “There was a point during yesterday’s congressional hearing on anti-Semitism when I was asked whether calling for the genocide of Jewish people on our campus would violate our policy.

“At that moment, I focused on our university’s long-standing policy, consistent with the US Constitution, which states that speech itself is not punishable.

“I was oblivious to the undeniable fact that a call for genocide of the Jewish people is a call for the most horrific violence that a person can commit. This is evil, plain and simple.”