University of Pennsylvania president resigns amid anti-Semitic scandal
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University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill has resigned. She made the corresponding decision after she, as well as the leaders of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found themselves at the center of a scandal with accusations of anti-Semitism.
The chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Scott L. Bock, said that Magill resigned voluntarily, and also said that he himself was leaving the post.
In American universities, after the Hamas attack on Israel, pro-Palestinian student protests took place, during which anti-Semitic slogans were heard. The rectors of three universities did not give a clear answer to the question of whether the students would be punished, after which 74 American congressmen signed a letter demanding their removal from work.
On the morning of October 7, Hamas fighters infiltrated the border areas of southern Israel, killing and taking hostage many civilians and military personnel, and launched more than 3,000 rockets into the country. The number of victims was at least 1,400 people, most of them civilians. Many of the dead were participants in the music festival. The attack was the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. In response, Israel launched Operation Iron Swords against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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