Claudine Gay has finally stepped down from her position as Harvard’s president —but the consensus among many students and Jewish groups is that it should have happened sooner.
Gay was finally forced to resign after failing to strongly condemn antisemitism on campus during a congressional hearing last year.
From The New York Post:
The Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance, which represents thousands of former Jewish students, said Gay’s resignation concluded “an unfortunate chapter” in the prestigious Ivy League school’s near-400-year history.
“In her repeated failures to condemn calls for complete and utter obliteration of Jews, Claudine Gay tacitly encouraged those who sought to spread hate at Harvard, where many Jews no longer feel safe to study, identify, and fully participate in the Harvard community,” spokesperson Roni Brunn said in a statement.
Brunn said the organization hopes the next president will take “strong action” to combat antisemitism on campus to return Harvard “to its roots as a world-renowned center of learning and research rooted in civil discourse and academic integrity.”
Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, a Jewish activist who served 15 years as a trustee on the City University of New York’s governing board, had a more wry take, saying Gay’s resignation only came after numerous plagiarism accusations rather than “not for calling out the chanting of genocide to Jews by protesters at her campus.”
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Joseph Potasnik, the executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis, said Gay made “the right decision” but it “should have happened sooner.”
“There was a clear lack of leadership. Her resignation was warranted,” he said.
More over at The New York Post:
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