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Tim Graham/Getty Images(NEW YORK) As bipartisan pressure continued to mount Friday on three university presidents, including calls to resign and a donor withdrawing a $100 million gift, free speech advocates are defending how they responded when asked whether calls for "genocide of Jews" would violate their campus codes of conduct.
The ACLU, the organization that defends constitutional rights, is weighing in after the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT faced furor for giving conditional answers to pointed questioning at a congressional hearing from New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik on how they would handle remarks in their university communities calling for the "genocide of Jews" and other phrases critics denounce as antisemitic.
The ACLU defended students right to use terms such as "from the river to the sea" a slogan used by Hamas, designated by the U.S. as a terrorist group that supporters of Israel say means wi
Tim Graham/Getty Images(NEW YORK) As bipartisan pressure continued to mount Friday on three university presidents, including calls to resign and a donor withdrawing a $100 million gift, free speech advocates are defending how they responded when asked whether calls for "genocide of Jews" would violate their campus codes of conduct.
The ACLU, the organization that defends constitutional rights, is weighing in after the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT faced furor for giving conditional answers to pointed questioning at a congressional hearing from New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik on how they would handle remarks in their university communities calling for the "genocide of Jews" and other phrases critics denounce as antisemitic.
The ACLU defended students right to use terms such as "from the river to the sea" a slogan used by Hamas, designated by the U.S. as a terrorist group that supporters of Israel say means wi
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Tim Graham/Getty Images(NEW YORK) As bipartisan pressure continued to mount Friday on three university presidents, including calls to resign and a donor