“Throughout the hearing, the three behaved like hostile witnesses,” Ackman wrote in a post on X, “exhibiting a profound disdain for the Congress with their smiles and smirks, and their outright refusal to answer basic questions with a yes or no answer.”

Ackman, a Harvard graduate who has been a vocal critic of how universities have addressed antisemitism, took particular issue with how the presidents answered a question on Tuesday about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violates their respective school’s code of conduct on bullying or harassment. …

“They must all resign in disgrace. If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour,” Ackman said on X. “The answers they gave reflect the profound moral bankruptcy of Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth.”

[I suspect that these three have severely misjudged the moment they created yesterday. I also suspect that none of them will resign over it, and that their ideological rigidity will only stiffen further as donors start withdrawing their funds from their operations. It will take an industry crash to dislodge the radicals from Academia now, and the best policy possible would hasten that outcome. Hence the Morrissey Plan to Decolonize Academia Now. — Ed]