Backlash Grows Against SNL Sketch on University Anti-Semitism Hearing

Published on December 13, 2023

Backlash continues to build against NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) over its recent sketch that parodied the testimony by three presidents of the nation’s top universities regarding alleged anti-Semitism on their campuses. The sketch, which was broadcast on Dec. 9, featured the testimony of Claudine Gay, Sally Kornbluth, and Liz Magill—the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania—as they were questioned during a House hearing on anti-Semitism. The skit mocked Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) despite the Republican congresswoman addressing serious questions at the real-life hearing about calls for genocide against Jews on college campuses. The academic leaders were criticized for failing to immediately condemn any calls for genocide. Ms. Stefanik asked them whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” would violate their school’s codes of conducts....

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