Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said Harvard University’s board's decision to allow President Claudine Gay to remain in office will be tested down the line if the university fails to raise its free speech ranking.

While clarifying that he will not second-guess the board’s vote, Auchincloss told Fox News on Wednesday morning, that “they've made their decision, but now they own their decision.”

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Auchincloss, an alum of both Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the university needs “to embrace a true pluralistic, open discourse on Harvard's campus” after ranking dead last out of 248 schools in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s survey of college free speech rankings. The University of Pennsylvania ranked second to last — UPenn President Elizabeth Magill resigned Saturday amid controversy surrounding her testimony on antisemitism.

Last week, Gay, Magill, and MIT President Sally Kornbluth testified before Congress, facing questions from Republican lawmakers about their universities’ responses to antisemitism on campus amid the Israel-Hamas war. All three presidents evaded questions about whether students calling for the genocide of Jewish people would be disciplined, sparking public outrage.

Auchincloss called out Harvard's “hypocrisy” when it comes to supporting free speech, saying cancel culture has been the norm on campus in recent years.

“Harvard University has spent the last five years with cancel culture as the dominant norm on its campus, and now that antisemitism has flared up, it has decided to embrace free speech principles and it does ring hollow,” Auchincloss said, adding that he hopes “this is a fork in the road” and the university can “double down on its commitment to free and open discourse to pluralism.”

Harvard students have held multiple rallies in support of Palestinians, calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. It is one of dozens of colleges in the U.S. that have held pro-Palestinian protests considered to be antisemitic by some Jewish students and members of Congress.

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When Fox & Friends co-anchor Steve Doocy asked Auchincloss why student protesters are “blaming Israel for the attacks that murdered all those people,” Auchincloss said a "lack of historical education about the Jewish people” in K-12 education is partly to blame, and an “ideology that views the entire world as collapsed into a binary of oppressor versus oppressed.”

“Safe spaces on campuses, I think, are increasingly used to shield students from uncomfortable points of view — when in fact, that's exactly the point of college, is to actually be exposed to and have to grapple with dissenting points of view to your world view,” Auchincloss said.