{"id":2119941,"date":"2023-12-08T15:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-jewish-community-leader-at-the-center-of-upenn-anti-semitism-scandal\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T15:23:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:23:23","slug":"meet-the-jewish-community-leader-at-the-center-of-upenn-anti-semitism-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-jewish-community-leader-at-the-center-of-upenn-anti-semitism-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Jewish Community Leader in UPenn Anti-Semitism Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeet-the-jewish-community-leader-at-the-center-of-upenn-anti-semitism-scandal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2119941&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>Julie Platt: A Vocal Supporter of UPenn\u2064 President Liz Magill<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption>\n      <strong>L: UPenn \u2062president Liz Magill(Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images) R: \u2062UPenn \u2064Board vice \u2062chair Julie\u200d Platt (Randy Shropshire\/Getty Images)<\/strong><br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>As University of\u2064 Pennsylvania president Liz\u2062 Magill faces mounting pressure to resign amidst a \u200dgrowing anti-Semitism scandal,\u2063 one of her staunchest allies on the university board is also\u2062 a prominent leader in the \u2062Jewish Federations\u2062 of\u2063 North America\u2014a group that \u200cclaims to be at the forefront of combating campus anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Platt, \u200dserving as both\u200b vice chair of\u2064 UPenn&#8217;s board of trustees and chair of the Jewish Federations of North America&#8217;s board of trustees, has emerged as one \u200dof Magill&#8217;s most vocal defenders, even as other Jewish leaders call for the UPenn president&#8217;s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Platt\u2062 has publicly supported Magill&#8217;s decision to\u200c turn a blind eye to \u2063the presence of notorious anti-Semites at a campus conference \u200din \u200dSeptember, \u200cincluding Pink Floyd frontman\u200b Roger Waters, who has donned Nazi\u200c attire \u2062during his concerts. \u200dFurthermore, Platt has \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/homeless-man-accused-of-setting-249-year-old-san-gabriel-mission-on-fire-pleads-not-guilty\/\" title=\"Homeless Man Accused Of Setting 249-Year-Old San Gabriel Mission On Fire Pleads Not Guilty\">remained tight-lipped<\/a> following Magill&#8217;s disastrous testimony on Capitol \u2062Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Now, critics argue that Platt is leveraging her\u200d position \u2064as a \u2063Jewish community leader \u2064to shield Magill&#8217;s role at the university, despite the surge of anti-Semitism on campus.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b Jewish Federations claim to be leading the charge against anti-Semitism, including\u200b on\u2064 college campuses. However, as one Jewish community leader revealed to\u2063 the <em>Washington Free\u2062 Beacon<\/em>, &#8220;what most Federation leaders don&#8217;t know, and certainly \u200btheir\u200c activist grassroots donors and \u2062volunteers don&#8217;t know, is that she&#8217;s also the \u2062vice chair at the University\u2062 of Pennsylvania and in \u2062that role, has been the public face of defending Magill for months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Platt&#8217;s\u200d defense of Magill predates \u200bthe recent Hamas attacks on October 7. She stood by the UPenn president when the university hosted\u2063 the &#8220;Palestine Writes&#8221; conference in September, which featured speakers with\u2063 anti-Semitic views, including\u2064 Roger Waters. The Jewish \u2064Federation&#8217;s \u200bPhiladelphia chapter sent a letter to the school, accusing Waters\u200d of &#8220;dressing in a Nazi-like uniform&#8221; and &#8220;desecrating the memory of Holocaust victim Anne Frank,&#8221; as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/25\/business\/palestine-writes-literature-festival-what-happened\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In October,\u2063 when Apollo CEO Marc Rowan called for Magill&#8217;s resignation from \u2064the UPenn board after she refused to condemn Hamas terrorism, Platt publicly \u2064supported \u200bthe UPenn president, expressing &#8220;full confidence in \u2062the leadership of President Liz Magill and Chair\u2062 Scott \u200bBok,&#8221;\u200c as stated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/10\/11\/apollo-ceo-marc-rowan-demands-upenn-leaders-resign-over-failure-to-condemn-hamas-terror\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> \u200d to the <em>New York Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Platt\u200b has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-ignored-bob-menendezs-corruption-until-he-was-no-longer-useful\/\" title=\"Democrats turned a blind eye to Bob Menendez's corruption until he became irrelevant.\">remained conspicuously silent<\/a>\u2063 following Magill&#8217;s shocking congressional testimony, where she and other \u2063Ivy League presidents suggested that calls for Jewish genocide were\u2062 permissible on campuses. Platt, a\u200d former\u2062 banker, also serves as co-chair of \u2063UPenn Hillel&#8217;s National Board of\u2063 Governors and sits on the board of overseers \u200bfor the\u200d Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, according to her biography on the \u2064Penn Alumni <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alumni.upenn.edu\/s\/1587\/gid2\/16\/interior.aspx?pgid=1109&#038;gid=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to comment on Magill&#8217;s \u200btestimony,\u200d Platt did not respond\u2063 to the <em>Free\u2064 Beacon<\/em>. Similarly, Eric Fingerhut, CEO of the \u2064Jewish Federations\u200c of North America, did not provide a comment regarding \u200dPlatt&#8217;s defense of Magill.<\/p>\n<p>Sources\u200d have \u200dinformed the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that Magill&#8217;s ousting\u200d is imminent, with her resignation potentially being demanded as early as today.<\/p>\n<p>During a congressional hearing\u200d this week,\u2062 Magill \u200brefused to acknowledge that calls\u2064 for the genocide of Jews violated the university&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/young-americans-are-losing-their-minds-the-social-left-is-to-blame\/\" title=\"Young Americans Are Losing Their Minds. The Social Left Is To Blame.\">anti-harassment policies<\/a>. She\u2064 argued that only when &#8220;speech becomes conduct&#8221; can it be considered harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Her statements prompted the Wharton School&#8217;s board to call for her resignation,\u200d stating in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/wharton-business-school-board-demands-penn-president-resign-amid-backlash-over-antisemitism-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> to Magill \u200dthat \u200bthey have\u200b been deeply concerned about\u200d the toxic culture on campus, \u2063which\u2063 has been perpetuated \u2062by a \u2063select group of students and faculty and tolerated by university leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result of the university leadership&#8217;s stated beliefs and collective failure to act,\u200c our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/embattled-upenn-president-liz-magill-faces-growing-calls-for-resignation\/\" title=\"Calls for UPenn President Liz Magill's resignation intensify amid mounting challenges\">board respectfully suggests<\/a> to you and the Board of Trustees that the university requires new leadership with\u2063 immediate effect,&#8221; the letter \u2064concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How has Magill&#8217;s decision \u200bto not take action \u200dagainst the\u2063 &#8220;Palestine \u2063Writes&#8221; conference affected the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nhls-dallas-stars-statement-after-mark-cuban-anthem-ban-were-playing-the-national-anthem\/\" title=\"NHL\u2019s Dallas Stars\u2019 Statement After Mark Cuban Anthem Ban: We\u2019re Playing The National Anthem\">controversy surrounding<\/a> her?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Er, \u2064Platt&#8217;s\u200d support of Magill\u2064 has sparked outrage\u2062 among other Jewish leaders and organizations who believe\u200d that her position as the\u200d chair of the Jewish Federations of North America&#8217;s board\u200c of trustees should hold her accountable for combating anti-Semitism, not\u2062 defending someone who has been accused of turning a blind eye \u2064to it.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy surrounding \u2063Magill began \u2064to escalate\u2063 in September when\u200c the university hosted\u200d the &#8220;Palestine Writes&#8221; conference, which featured\u2062 speakers with anti-Semitic \u2064views, including Roger Waters. The\u2063 Jewish \u2063Federation&#8217;s \u200cPhiladelphia chapter sent a letter to the school, expressing their concern about Waters&#8217; controversial behavior. Despite this, Magill chose not to \u200ctake any \u2064action against the conference \u200cor the speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Platt, as the chair of \u200bthe Jewish Federations of North America&#8217;s board of trustees, should have\u200d been at the forefront of condemning \u2062such\u200d behavior. Instead, she has defended Magill&#8217;s decision and has remained silent \u200don \u2062the\u2063 issue, causing \u2064many to question her commitment \u200cto combating \u200canti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>The situation worsened \u200din October when Apollo CEO Marc Rowan called for\u2064 Magill&#8217;s resignation from the\u2063 UPenn board after she refused to condemn Hamas terrorism. \u2063Once \u200cagain, Platt \u200dshowed her support for Magill, publicly expressing her \u200d&#8221;full confidence&#8221; in the UPenn president and chair. This further deepened\u2064 the divide between Platt and other Jewish leaders who believe that her loyalty\u200c should lie with combating anti-Semitism, not\u200d defending individuals who are accused\u2064 of perpetuating it.<\/p>\n<p>Platt&#8217;s support of Magill does not align with the \u200dmission \u2063of the Jewish Federations of\u2064 North\u2063 America, which claims \u200dto be at the forefront of combating campus\u2063 anti-Semitism.\u200c Many are questioning whether her position as vice \u200bchair of the UPenn board and chair of the Jewish Federations of North\u2063 America&#8217;s \u2062board of trustees is \u200da conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p>If the\u2062 Jewish Federations of North America truly wants\u2064 to combat anti-Semitism, it is crucial that they hold their \u2063leaders accountable for their actions. Defending someone who has been accused of turning a blind eye to \u200banti-Semitism undermines\u2063 their mission and sends a message that \u200dit is acceptable to tolerate \u200bsuch\u2062 behavior. It is time \u2062for \u2064Julie Platt \u2064to \u2062reassess her priorities\u200d and decide\u2062 whether she will\u200c stand for combating\u200b anti-Semitism or defending individuals\u2064 implicated in it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Platt, UPenn board vice chair and Jewish Federations of North America chair, strongly backs president Liz Magill amid resignation demands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":2119942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2119941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2119942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}