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Penn president walks back Tuesday testimony in antisemitism hearing

The president of the University of Pennsylvania released a video late Wednesday walking back some of her testimony at a congressional hearing this week about antisemitism on campus after calls for her resignation followed her remarks.

In the video, Liz Magill said she should have responded differently to questions Tuesday from Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., about whether calls for the genocide of Jewish people would violate university policies.

On the video, she called it “irrefutable” that “a call for genocide of Jewish people is “evil, plain and simple.”

Magill has led Penn since July 2022 after previously serving as executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia and a professor and dean at Stanford Law School.

She became the focus of forceful condemnations on and off campus after her remarks Tuesday before a House committee that summoned Magill and others to testify about efforts to stop antisemitism on their campuses.

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