‘Their answers were not smart by any means,’ prof says of school presidents she testified with in 2023

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) went viral in December 2023 when she cross-examined the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology during a congressional hearing.

The trio failed to clearly condemn the Jew-hatred that roiled their campuses after Hamas’s terror attack less than two months prior, and two of the three—Liz Magill of Penn and Claudine Gay of Harvard—subsequently resigned. Sally Kornbluth, who is Jewish, remains at the MIT helm.

A fourth panelist that day, Pamela Nadell, Patrick Clendenen chair in women’s and gender history at American University in Washington and director of its Jewish studies program, has received considerably less attention in the context of the House Committee on Education and Workforce hearing