{"id":2121922,"date":"2023-12-11T15:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-phil-to-university-presidents-i-saw-the-hamas-footage-resign\/"},"modified":"2023-12-11T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T21:00:19","slug":"dr-phil-to-university-presidents-i-saw-the-hamas-footage-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-phil-to-university-presidents-i-saw-the-hamas-footage-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Phil urges university presidents to resign after seeing Hamas footage"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdr-phil-to-university-presidents-i-saw-the-hamas-footage-resign%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=2121922&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--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Phil McGraw\u2063 attends the \u2062ceremony honoring him with a star on The \u200bHollywood Walk Of Fame on February 21, 2020\u2064 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/elizabeth-volberding\">Elizabeth Volberding<br \/><\/a>12:37 PM \u2013 Monday, December 11, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>Well-known TV host and author Doctor Philip\u200c McGraw, best \u200cknown\u200d as \u2018Dr. Phil,\u2019\u2063 shared\u200c a video calling for the resignation of the presidents from Harvard \u200dUniversity and\u2062 MIT after their responses\u2063 to questions regarding anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>On \u200dSunday \u200bmorning, \u2064Dr. Phil published \u2064a video \u2062in which he called \u2064for the presidents of MIT and Harvard University to\u200c resign over their refusal to \u200dacknowledge that calls for the \u200cextermination of the\u200c Jewish people are against university\u200b policy.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Phil told Representative Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) that calling for the genocide of Jews only violates their policies of bullying and harassment if \u200csaid\u200b in the \u201cproper context.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Phil denounced \u2063the testimonies of the leaders of Harvard University, MIT, and \u2062the University of\u2064 Pennsylvania before Congress last\u200d week.\u2063 He claimed \u200cthat they\u2062 exuded \u201csickening smugness\u201d and \u201can arrogance and dismissiveness seldom seen\u2062 in that forum\u201d during\u2063 the \u2064congressional hearing<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cAs an American, I grow\u200c increasingly appalled at the \u2064anti-Semitism permeating so much of our country, especially by so \u2064many students at \u200bour elite\u2064 universities, which have become left-liberal woke hotbeds\u200b fostering intellectual\u200c rot rather than critical thinking, and tolerated or endorsed by their administrations,\u201d \u2063Dr. \u2062Phil said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThis\u200b weaponized prejudice has never \u2064been more on \u200cdisplay than when university presidents\u2062 from Harvard,\u2064 MIT, and University\u2064 of Pennsylvania testified on Capitol Hill, \u2063with sickening smugness and condescending to the panel\u200d with an arrogance and dismissiveness \u200dseldom seen in that forum. They were asked a simple question: Does calling for the\u2062 genocide of Jews violate your policy\u2064 against bullying and harassment?\u201d he stated. \u201cTo be\u2063 100% clear, using the dictionary definition\u200b of genocide, the question becomes, does calling for the deliberate killing of a\u2064 large number \u200dof Jews with the aim\u200b of destroying the Jewish \u2062ethnic group and the nation of Israel violate\u200c your policy against bullying and harassment?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cUniversity\u200b Presidents Gay, Magill, and Kornbluth disgustingly \u2063evaded Representative Stefanik\u2019s questions [with] \u2018It depends on\u2063 context,\u2019\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019ll\u200d give you some context. While \u2062you were\u200c intellectually selling out, bringing shame \u2063to your institutions and this country, I\u2064 was working \u2062with the Israeli consulate, viewing\u200d the \u2064highly restricted\u2062 footage\u2063 of\u2062 October 7<sup>th<\/sup> from actual bodycams from \u2062terrorists themselves, victims\u2019\u2064 cell phones recovered \u200cfrom their dead, tortured, raped, desecrated bodies, as well s raw CCTV footage and\u200d other sources.\u200b The targets were\u2063 all unarmed civilians, including\u200b men, women, \u2063children, \u2063and the elderly, hunted, tortured, raped, dismembered, beheaded, and executed without mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8Dr. Phil to\u2064 University Presidents:\u2062  \u201cI saw the Hamas \u2063footage, resign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u2060\u2063  \u2060Dr Phil issued a video statement calling \u200don the MIT, Harvard, and University of Pennsylvania \u2064presidents to resign. In the video, he says the elite universities have\u200b become \u201cliberal woke hotbeds\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZNH6DudVlh\">pic.twitter.com\/ZNH6DudVlh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioNawfal\/status\/1733856585229680711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Phil also \u2062accused the university presidents of giving into \u200cthe tragedies, \u200cclaiming that they knew \u201chow traumatizing\u201d protests on university campuses by anti-Israel groups were to Jewish students.<\/p>\n<p>Claudine Gay of Harvard, Liz Magill \u200dof the University of Pennsylvania and Sally \u2064Kornbluth \u200bof MIT \u201cevaded\u201d the \u2062question. As \u200ca result, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/newsroom\/university-of-pennsylvania-president-resigns-due-to-criticism-of-anti-semitism-testimony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Magill resigned<\/a> from her position due to backlash from\u2062 the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Stay \u200cinformed! 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He\u200d argued that these universities, which were meant\u200b to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-experts-express-hope-that-college-censorship-is-waning-at-aei-event\/\" title=\"Conservative experts optimistic about declining college censorship at AEI event.\">foster critical thinking<\/a>,\u2063 have instead become &#8220;left-liberal woke hotbeds&#8221; that promote intellectual rot rather than critical thinking, all while\u200d being tolerated\u200c or \u200bendorsed by their administrations.<\/p>\n<p>The TV host also highlighted the evasive responses of Harvard University, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania presidents during their testimonies on \u200dCapitol\u2064 Hill. When \u2063asked whether calling for\u2062 the\u2064 genocide of Jews violates their policies against bullying and harassment, they \u2062responded with &#8220;It \u200bdepends \u200don context.&#8221; \u200cDr. Phil firmly questioned this\u200d stance, \u200dproviding \u2064the dictionary definition of genocide and emphasizing the deliberate killing\u200c of a large number of Jews to destroy the Jewish ethnic group and Israel. He found their answers to \u2062be unsatisfactory and asserted that\u2062 they \u200cbrought shame to their institutions and the country.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Phil went on to share\u2063 his personal experiences, stating that while \u2063the university presidents \u200bwere intellectually selling out, he was \u2062working alongside the Israeli consulate. \u2062He had access to highly restricted footage\u200b from bodycams worn by terrorists, as well as victims&#8217; cell phones recovered\u200d from\u2063 their deceased bodies. This footage revealed the brutal treatment of unarmed \u2062civilians, including \u200bmen, women, children, and the elderly, who \u2063were hunted, tortured, raped, dismembered, beheaded, \u200dand executed \u200dwithout mercy.<\/p>\n<p>The TV host&#8217;s call \u2062for resignation gained attention on social media, with a \u200dvideo statement circulating \u200don Twitter. Dr. Phil&#8217;s message reached a \u2064wide audience, questioning the integrity and moral compass \u200dof university leaders\u200c amidst rising concerns of anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>This incident calls for\u2064 further reflection on the role\u2063 of university\u2063 leaders in upholding \u2063and promoting\u200c inclusivity, tolerance, and respect within their academic communities. It highlights the importance of taking a firm\u2063 stance\u2064 against\u200b hate speech and discrimination, particularly when it\u2062 comes to issues as sensitive as anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>In concluding his statement, Dr. Phil urged \u2064the presidents of Harvard University and MIT to resign, emphasizing the need for individuals in \u200cpositions of power and influence\u2064 to take responsibility for\u2063 their actions and uphold the values\u200d of their institutions. \u200dThis call for accountability adds\u2063 to the \u2062ongoing discussion surrounding anti-Semitism and the actions required to address and combat it \u200ceffectively.<\/p>\n<p>As this issue continues to unfold, it remains to be seen \u2063how the presidents and the universities will\u200c respond to Dr. Phil&#8217;s call for resignation and whether \u2063it will \u2063lead to any meaningful change\u200d in policies\u200d and attitudes concerning \u200banti-Semitism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Phil McGraw, renowned TV host and author, received a star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame in Hollywood, California. 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