The board of advisers for the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton business school urged UPenn President Liz Magill to resign following testimony before a House committee in which she refused to say if calling for the genocide of Jews was harassment.

In a letter to Magill, the Wharton board said it was "deeply concerned" about the culture of the Ivy League school "that has been led by a select group of students and faculty and has been permitted by University leadership." The school is one of many that has seen an increase in antisemitic activity since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel.

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The matter was center stage at a congressional hearing on Tuesday, during which Magill, Harvard President Claudine Gay, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth testified about the growing problem of antisemitism on college campuses. But all three presidents, under questioning by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), refused to say if "calling for the genocide of Jews" amounted to harassment that violated their schools' code of conduct.

Instead, the three presidents argued that such a statement could violate policies "depending on the context."

"As confirmed in your congressional testimony yesterday, the leadership of the University does not share the values of our Board," the board told Magill. "Nor does it appear to understand the urgency to address the safety of our students on campus and the ongoing reputational damage to the University by the University's policies and actions."

The letter, which was reported by the Daily Pennsylvanian, calls on the university to "clarify its position regarding any call for harm to any group of people immediately" and make changes to university leadership.

"As a result of the University leadership's stated beliefs and collective failure to act, our Board respectfully suggests to you and the Board of Trustees that the University requires new leadership with immediate effect," the letter said.

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Magill, for her part, released a video on Wednesday in which she said that "in the moment," she was "focused on our university's long-standing policies aligned with the U.S. Constitution, which say that speech alone is not punishable."

"I was not focused on, but I should have been, the irrefutable fact that a call for genocide of Jewish people is a call for some of the most terrible violence human beings can perpetrate," she said.