Rich Eisen Buries College Presidents for ‘Word Salad and Nonsense’ at House Hearing on Anti-Semitism

Rich Eisen took a detour from sports Wednesday to slam several university presidents for their noncommittal answers to combatting anti-Semitism on their campuses.

Presidents from Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT appeared on Capitol Hill this week to explain how their institutions are handling threats against Jewish students in the wake of the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Harvard President Dr. Claudine Gay faced especially harsh criticism when she stated the school would only take action if calls for the genocide of Jews “crosses into conduct that violates our policies against bullying, harassment.”

When asked if calls for the genocide of Jews go against the university’s code of conduct, Gay did not give a “yes” or “no” despite calls to do so. Instead, Eisen said, she responded with “word salad and nonsense.”

“Oh, so we have to wait for the genocide to happen before you kick someone off of campus? Is that right?” Eisen said on The Rich Eisen Show. “She called it a ‘context-dependent decision.’ How about the context of what’s happening in the world right now? Where hate speech against Jews — and by the way, Islamophobia’s through the roof, too. How about the context of just being against all hate speech? And it starts with this subject matter.

“By just allowing that speech makes people comfortable to commit the genocide. You understand that? By not being unequivocal and saying, ‘Yes, this is a violation and anybody who violates it is off campus. They can’t go to Harvard, Penn, or MIT’ — by saying, ‘Well, it depends on this, that, the other thing’ — makes them comfortable to commit the genocide It is the lesson you learn when you walk into museums of tolerance or Holocaust museums around the world, including ones that I’ve been to recently in Berlin, Germany, and Tel Aviv, Israel.”

Eisen then expressed disbelief over the fact that he’d now discourage his children from attending the storied universities.

“I never thought in a million years that I would never wanna send my kids to these schools,” he continued. “Forget that.”

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