{"id":2241639,"date":"2024-05-10T09:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-ivy-league-school-president-resigns-after-months-of-anti-israel-protests-on-campus\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:44:55","slug":"another-ivy-league-school-president-resigns-after-months-of-anti-israel-protests-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-ivy-league-school-president-resigns-after-months-of-anti-israel-protests-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivy League President Steps Down Amid Campus Anti-Israel Protests"},"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%2Fanother-ivy-league-school-president-resigns-after-months-of-anti-israel-protests-on-campus%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=2241639&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>Cornell University&#8217;s\u2062 President Martha Pollack announced her\u2063 resignation amidst criticism for handling anti-Israel \u200bprotests, making her the third Ivy League president to step down this \u2062year. Pollack\u2064 emphasized that\u200d the \u200cdecision was hers alone after seven fruitful years at the \u2064university. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-college-of-florida-trustee-blasts-civil-rights-investigation-pronoun-police\/\" title=\"Trustee of New College of Florida criticizes civil rights investigation as 'Pronoun police'\">interim \u2064president<\/a> \u2062will be Provost \u2064Michael I. Kotlikoff. This adds to recent resignations across Ivy League universities, \u2063indicating \u200ba significant leadership shift.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Cornell University President Martha Pollack announced her resignation on Thursday, becoming the third Ivy League school president to step down this year after being blasted for their handling of anti-Israel demonstrations that swept through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-china-threat-is-real-and-upon-us\/\" title=\"The China Threat is Real and Upon Us\">college campuses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pollack said her decision to quit \u201cis mine and mine alone,\u201d saying her seven years of leading the university were \u201cfruitful and gratifying,\u201d The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/education\/cornell-university-president-martha-pollack-retirement-13ff2f12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. The Cornell president will officially resign on June 30, and Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff will serve as the interim president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that there will be lots of speculation about my decision, so let me be as clear as I can: This decision is mine and mine alone. After seven fruitful and gratifying years as Cornell\u2019s president\u2014and after a career in research and academia spanning five decades\u2014I\u2019m ready for a new chapter in my life,\u201d Pollack wrote in a letter.<\/p>\n<p>With Pollack\u2019s announcement, three Ivy League school presidents will have resigned within months of each other after facing calls to be fired over anti-Semitism going unchecked on the colleges\u2019 campuses. A fourth Ivy League president, Yale\u2019s Peter Salovey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/31\/us\/yale-president-resigns-peter-salovey.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> last September that he would step down after the 2023-2024 school year, meaning half of the universities in the Ivy League will be undergoing leadership changes.<\/p>\n<p>In December, University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/penn-president-liz-magill-out-after-disturbing-remarks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned<\/a> after she faced calls to step down following a disastrous testimony before Congress where she said that calls for genocide against Jews would only violate Penn\u2019s code of conduct on bullying and harassment if \u201cthe speech turns into conduct.\u201d Harvard University President Claudine Gay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/claudine-gay-to-resign-as-harvard-president-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned<\/a> a month later as allegations of anti-Semitism on the college campus mounted while she faced a plagiarism scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Cornell has been the center of disturbing anti-Semitism following Hamas\u2019 attack on Israel on October 7. A Cornell student was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cornell-student-faces-5-years-in-prison-after-allegedly-making-online-threats-to-jewish-students-on-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> in October after allegedly making graphic violent threats against the Ivy League school\u2019s Jewish community. Patrick Dai, 21, faces five years in prison after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-activist-working-at-library-fired-after-allegedly-burning-library-books-by-trump-coulter-now-hes-claiming-racial-discrimination\/\" title=\"BLM Activist Working At Library Fired After Allegedly Burning Library Books By Trump, Coulter. Now He\u2019s Claiming Racial Discrimination.\">allegedly posted<\/a> on a discussion board calling for the death of Jewish people and threatening to carry out a shooting at a Cornell building that has a dining hall catering to Kosher diets.<\/p>\n<p>Just a week after Hamas\u2019 terror attack against Israel, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-survival-guide-for-conservatives-during-the-biden-years\/\" title=\"A Survival Guide for Conservatives During the Biden Years\">associate professor<\/a> in Cornell\u2019s history department said in a speech in Ithaca, New York, that he found Hamas\u2019 murder of 1,200 people to be \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ivy-league-prof-takes-abrupt-sabbatical-after-cheerleading-exhilarating-hamas-attacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exhilarating<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was exhilarating. It was exhilarating, it was energizing,\u201d Cornell Professor Russell Rickford said. He later took a leave of absence and apologized for his \u201chorrible choice of words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Jon Lindseth \u2014 one of Cornell\u2019s largest donors \u2014 called on the board of trustees to dismiss Pollack along with Kotlikoff for their alleged failure to fight against anti-Semitism on campus, the WSJ reported. In a letter to the board\u2019s chair, Lindseth also accused Cornell of prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) over \u201cdiscovering and disseminating knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lindseth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13402605\/Cornell-University-President-Martha-Pollack-donor-antisemitism-campus-Israel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a> that he is \u201calarmed by the diminished quality of education offered lately by my alma mater because of its disastrous involvement with DEI policies that have infiltrated every part of the university.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornell University&#8217;s President, Martha Pollack, resigned, marking the third Ivy League president&#8217;s departure this year. Criticized for managing anti-Israel protests, Pollack stated her resignation was solely her choice after seven years at the university<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2241640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1252538306-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-1252538306-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241639","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2241640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}