University leader resigns after evidence on campus antisemitism

University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

The University of Pennsylvania’s president has resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over evidence at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy.

The departure of Liz Magill, in her second year as president of the Ivy League school, was announced by the school late on Saturday afternoon.