New York CNN —University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill, facing a backlash from donors calling for her to resign, launched a new effort on Wednesday to fight antisemitism at the Ivy League school.
“This is an incredibly challenging moment in the world, and we are feeling its reverberations on our campus,” Magill wrote in a letter to the Penn community on Wednesday.
“The engagement of Jewish faculty, students, staff and alumni has been an important part of the success of Penn as a leading University,” Magill said.
Magill condemned antisemitism broadly before that festival and noted that some speakers had a history of making antisemitic remarks.
Organizers of the three-day-long Palestine Writes festival denied that it embraced antisemitism, according to UPenn student newspaper The Daily Pennsylvanian.
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