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Free speech has been replaced by institutional stupidity at Harvard, UPenn

On Tuesday the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT were called before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce to answer for how their pristine institutions had devolved into hotbeds of anti-semitism.

The whole debacle is a remarkable display of elite higher education’s fall from grace — and how their years-long abandonment of free speech has allowed radicalism and anti-semitism to fester on campus.

Where free speech dies, institutional stupidity takes its place.

The hearing comes after Jewish students were mobbed by pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Harvard and protesters were heard chanting for an “Intifada revolution” on UPenn’s campus this weekend — leading the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to investigate both schools for Title VI discrimination violations.

“Antisemitism is a symptom of ignorance, and the cure for ignorance is knowledge,” testified Harvard president Claudine Gay, who was dragged for initially failing to condemn Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel. “Harvard must model what it means to preserve free expression while combating prejudice.

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