The heat is turning up on the presidents of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after the resignation of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill on Saturday.
Trucks carrying messages calling for the firing of Harvard President Claudine Gay were spotted Sunday, according to reports.
"FIRE GAY," one privately funded truck's box read Sunday as it circled campus. Another was parked outside the school's main gate, broadcasting Gay's exchange with Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., from a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
A plane flying a banner that read "HARVARD — STOP JEW HATRED" also flew over Harvard's campus, according to reports.
Harvard professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, an avowed Zionist who considers anti-Zionism equivalent to antisemitism, echoed the calls for the end of Gay and MIT President Sally Kornbluth's reigns but also the end of the diversity, equity, and inclusion ideological movement.
"Never forget that Harvard admittedly failed to explicitly condemn Hamas or quickly denounce a student group letter that held Israel, 'entirely responsible' for the Oct. 7 terrorist massacre," Dershowitz wrote Sunday for the Daily Mail.
"This is the DEI worldview. Today it looks down on Jews. Who will be next?
"Yes, Harvard's Gay and MIT's Kornbluth must follow Magill and resign. But their professional scalps will not solve the real problems plaguing our universities.
"What is needed now is the courage to stand up to an evil ideology infecting our institutions.
"The DEI bureaucracy must be dismantled, discredited and utterly destroyed."
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has warned that DEI would be used used as a guise for division, exclusion, and indoctrination, joined Newsmax's "Sunday Agenda" to call for their resignations, too, denouncing the DEI movement amid its failure to provide equity and protection for Jewish students on campuses.
"Those college presidents really disgraced themselves," DeSantis told host Lidia Curanaj. "It really shows the rot that has developed in academia over, really, many, many years in those institutions, what they're doing to indoctrinate these kids.
"They're talking about it's OK to say 'genocide of Jews' because they believe in free speech, yet they'll fire staff members who articulate normal conservative positions on garden-variety issues.
"So it was all a big fraud that they were perpetuating on the public, and I hope they're all held accountable and lose their jobs."
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