Billionaire Harvard alum excoriates university presidents over antisemitism hearing: 'Must resign'

Billionaire and Harvard graduate Bill Ackman is demanding that the presidents of three prestigious universities "resign in disgrace" after they refused to say that calling for the genocide of Jews on their respective campuses breached their rules and amounted to harassment.

In a furious post on X, Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, blasted the presidents for failing to call out antisemitic protests that have taken place on their campuses since the Hamas Oct. 7 terrorist attacks and the subsequent onset of the Israel-Hamas war.

The presidents – Dr. Claudine Gay of Harvard, Liz Magill of UPenn, and Dr. Sally Kornbluth of MIT – were grilled Tuesday by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., during a House committee hearing on the rise of antisemitism on college campuses with Ackman writing that their answers reflect the "profound educational, moral and ethical failures that pervade certain of our elite educational institutions due in large part to their failed leadership."

Stefanik, the House GOP chair, asked the presidents if they considered calls for a "global intifada" against Jews on campuses as tantamount to a call for violent armed resistance against the state of Israel and the genocide of Jews. She asked whether such rhetoric violated the code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment at those institutions. 

Read the full article by Fox Business' Michael Dorgan