PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – There has been a call to resign – and one already has – to the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and MIT who suggested that calls for genocide, specifically genocide of Jewish people, may be acceptable in some contexts.
You could see what appeared to be shock on the faces of some members of Congress in that meeting Tuesday.
What might have been a committee meeting that went all but unnoticed by the general public instead became a national scandal.
Three leaders of three prestigious Ivy League universities could not bring themselves to condemn without condition calls for mass murder.
The meeting of the house higher education and word force committee was called to examine increasing anti-Semitism on college campuses.
Late last week, 72 members of Congress signed a letter to calling for all three presidents to resign.
One of them was South Florida Congressman Mario Diaz Balart, and he joined This Week in South Florida host Glenna Milberg to discuss. Their conversation can be seen at the top of this page.