Stefanik led the charge in the House Education Committee’s Dec. 5 questioning of three university presidents — Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — about their handling of antisemitism on their campuses. In tense exchanges, Stefanik repeatedly asked the academics whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate their schools’ code of conduct.
Their responses, in the view of critics, seemed over-lawyered and out of touch. The explosive interrogation circulated widely among Republicans and Democrats, fueling the debate over how far colleges can go to restrict speech — and launching an avalanche of demands, including from some Democrats, that the three presidents resign.
