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Pressure mounts on Harvard president Claudine Gay to resign over antisemitic testimony in Congress

"One down. Two down. I asked President Gay 17 times if calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard's code of conduct. She told her truth 17 times," Rep. Elise Stefanik posted on X account, formerly Twitter.

Claudine Gay, presidente de Harvard

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Following the resignation of former University of Pennsylvania President, Liz Magill, over her antisemitic comments to Congress, pressure is now focused on her Harvard University counterpart, Claudine Gay.

The House Education and Workforce Committee called to testify last Tuesday Magill, Gay and Sally Kornbluth (president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), for his apparent support of antisemitic protests and incidents at his universities due to the war between the terrorist group Hamas and Israel.

Despite the warning, before the House, none of the three condemned the call for the genocide of Jews. Therefore, a bipartisan group of 74 congressmen sent a signed letter to the boards of directors of the respective study centers urging them to remove them from their positions.

Representative Elise Stefanik posted on her X account, formerly Twitter:

One down. Two missing. In the case of @Harvard, I asked President Gay 17 times whether calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard's code of conduct. She spoke her truth 17 times. And the world heard. In the case of @MIT, Dr. Kornbluth answered the question. If you are addressing individuals, that is, dehumanizing the Jewish people in your response.

In Gay's case, after the controversy, he apologized for his comments in an interview with The Harvard Crimson : "I'm sorry. Words matter. I got caught up in what had become at that point an extended and combative exchange about policy and procedure."

The Corporation of Harvard, the Board of Overseers and the university's governing organizations, will meet on Sunday to discuss the controversy, according to the outlet.

Criticism of Gay

Some business leaders and Harvard alumni have disapproved of Gay and her counterparts for their lack of action in combating antisemitism at their schools. Bill Ackman, a Harvard graduate, commented on his X account, that Gay "catalyzed an explosion of antisemitism and hate on campus that is unprecedented in Harvard history":

For failing to condemn the most vile and barbaric terrorism the world has ever seen, for supporting rather than condemning 34 Harvard student organizations that hold Israel 'entirely responsible' for Hamas' barbaric acts, for failing to enforce one's own rules of Harvard over student conduct and for her other leadership failures, President Gay catalyzed an explosion of antisemitism and hate on campus that is unprecedented in Harvard's history.
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