More than half of Americans (56%) say that the presidents of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology should resign, as the president of University of Pennsylvania did, following their testimony before a House committee that it wouldn’t necessarily violate their school policies to call for genocide against Jews.
That’s per a new Daily Mail poll of 1,000 likely voters. The poll found that 65% said that schools that fail to address Jew-hatred should have their funding stripped, including 37% who strongly agreed with that statement. Just 5% strongly disagreed.
“These findings highlight the gulf between the university elite and the bulk of the public,” said James Johnson, co-founder of J.L. Partners, which conducted the poll.
“To the public it is pretty simple. It doesn’t require a university degree and a fancy title to identify antisemitism and it should not be ignored or underplayed,” he added. “If it is, then America’s view is similarly straightforward: The presidents should go.”
The margin for error and details of the poll methodology do not appear to be publicly available.
