HARVARD'S ANTISEMITIC PLAGARIST PRESIDENT SUPPORTED BY BARACK OBAMA RESIGNS CLAIMING SHE IS THE VICTIM OF RACISM

Harvard President Claudine Gay resigns over plagiarism claims and disastrous antisemitism testimony in bitter letter where she says she's been victim of racism - but fails to apologize

Harvard Corp said it accepted her resignation 'with sorrow'  

 

Daily Mail

Jan 2, 2024

 

Alan Garber will serve as interim president in Gay's absence. Garber, pictured sitting behind Gay, supported her at the disastrous hearing, nodding as she gave her remarks 

 

Harvard President Claudine Gay today resigned in a bitter letter to colleagues and students where she failed to apologize for or acknowledge the disasters that led to her departure.  

Gay, 53, lasted just six months in the role - the shortest tenure of any president in the school's history.  Her resignation comes 28 days after her shocking congressional testimony about campus antisemitism, where she refused to categorize calls for Jew genocide as harassment or concede that Jewish students had a right not to feel safe at Ivy League schools. 

In her resignation, Gay wrote that she was standing down after 'consultation' with the school's board, which has been under pressure to replace her after defending her remarks. 

She failed to acknowledge where she went wrong - making no mention of  December 5 testimony or the mounting claims of plagiarism against her - but said she had been the victim of racist threats.  

'It has become clear that it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge with a focus on the institution rather than any individual,' Gay wrote. 

The Harvard Corporation, which serves as the school board, heaped praise on her 'devoted' service and said it had accepted her resignation 'with sorrow'.

She said it had been 'frightening' to find herself the target of threats, and 'distressing' to have her character questioned. 

Gay will be replaced by Alan M. Garber, Provost and Chief Academic Officer, who sat behind her at the infamous December 5 hearing, nodding as she made her remarks. 

Her six month tenure as president is the shortest in the school's history.  

Gay was publicly scorned for her December 5 congressional testimony, where she repeatedly refused to condemn calls for Jew genocide, saying such threats did not count as harassment. 

In her email today, Gay complained: 'It has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor—two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am—and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus.'