Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted the elite university presidents who testified before Congress last week as “cultural Marxists,” saying Harvard President Claudine Gay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth should follow University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill’s lead and resign.
“I think all three should resign in disgrace,” Cruz told Hannity. “Not a one of them could give a simple, clear answer, not a one of them could categorically denounce antisemitism, categorically denounce genocide against the Jewish people, and not one of them could figure out whether calling for mass murder of Jews violates their harassment policy. It was ridiculous.”
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Cruz, an alumnus of Harvard, said there is no excuse for Gay’s testimony, as he suggested some have claimed she was “surprised” by the questioning. He said her testimony reveals she “sides with the protesters.”
“She’s a radical leftist. She’s a cultural Marxist,” Cruz added. “They define Jews as oppressors. They define Palestinians as victims, and the cultural Marxists support the violent revolution of the victims against the so-called oppressors, and the result is, because the three of them are leftists, they are cheering for the Hamas terrorists. It is disgraceful.”
The Texas senator noted his disapproval of harassment against Jewish students attending these elite universities, noting that anyone who “called for genocide of any of those groups whom the Left defines as victim, you would be expelled immediately. But because they view Jews in the context of Israel as oppressors, you’re allowed to abuse them.”
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Despite calls for Gay to resign, members of Harvard University’s faculty sent a letter to the Harvard Corporation, the university’s governing body, urging the university not to oust the president in an hourslong meeting on Monday.
The Harvard Corporation announced it “unanimously stands in support” of Gay keeping her post on Tuesday.
