Penn’s President Liz Magill Resigns After Her Responses to Antisemitism
The President of the University of Pennsylvania, M. Elizabeth Magill, resigned after her controversial testimony at a congressional hearing. Many perceived her responses as avoiding the question of whether students advocating for the genocide of Jews should be penalized. Magill had faced months of increasing pressure from Jewish students, alumni, and donors who felt she had not addressed their concerns about antisemitism on campus adequately. Despite her resignation, Magill will remain at Penn as a faculty member of the law school. Her resignation is the first linked to the widespread campus controversy following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza.
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