ABC Unsettled After Penn President Resigned Over Anti-Semitism Defense

Nicholas Fondacaro | December 11, 2023
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Heads began to roll over the weekend with disgraced University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigning under pressure following her congressional testimony last week defending anti-Semitism and the calls for genocide on her campus. This didn’t sit well with ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday, as they clutched their pearls over Magill’s fate and how the pressure on Harvard and MIT to fire their presidents for similar remarks were increasing.

Leading into the segment, co-host Linsey Davis couldn’t even be honest about the fact that there was anti-Semitism and calls for another Jewish genocide happening on campuses nationwide. “Here at home, tensions are rising over alleged anti-Semitism on college campuses. The University of Pennsylvania's president has now stepped down after her widely criticized House testimony,” she announced.

“The fallout has been swept,” warned correspondent Selina Wang. She added that a similar fate could befall the presidents of Harvard and MIT seeing as they “gave similar responses” and “calls for the other two schools to follow suit are growing.”

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