The presidents of MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard felt the disgust of the civilized world on Tuesday after they defended calls for another Jewish genocide coming from their campuses, saying it didn’t violate their codes of conduct, during a congressional hearing on antisemitism. The hate movement those schools were fostering got full-throated support from staunchly racist and anti-Semitic Sunny Hostin, a co-host of ABC’s The View, on Wednesday.
They started the show with a montage of clips from the hearing highlighting New York Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik calling out the university presidents for being permissive of violent rhetoric and genocide. Responding to Harvard's Claudine Gay who said calls for Jewish genocide violate their code of conduct “depend[ing] on the context,” co-host Joy Behar shot back by suggesting the school’s plan to protect Jewish students was to “Wait till they're dead, I guess!"
Of course, Hostin tried to deflect and make Stefanik out to be the controversial one at the hearing. “What Elise Stefanik, the congresswoman was talking about and what this entire hearing was about should have been about free speech, and free speech,” she stumbled over her words. “And although many may feel uncomfortable about it, the most hateful and heinous speech is the most protected speech.”
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