Claudine Gay ‘WILL remain in as Harvard president with support of board’ after anti-Semitism scandal that has tanked college’s reputation
- The Harvard Crimson reported that Gay will keep her job
- The president faces continued condemnation for refusing to condemn anti-Semitism
- Donations to the scandal-hit Ivy League university have plummeted
Claudine Gay will remain as president of Harvard with the full support of the Ivy League university's governing body, the student newspaper reported.
The Harvard Crimson reported early Tuesday that the Harvard Corporation — the university's highest governing body — was backing Gay despite a massive anti-Semitism scandal.
A statement confirming the news will be released later this morning, the newspaper reported.
Billionaire hedge fund alumnus Bill Ackman — who has led a campaign to dethrone Gay — claimed Harvard's board didn't want to be seen looking up to him.
Gay was appointed to the post in July 2023 but sparked anger at a congressional hearing last week after she failed to denounce threats of violence against Jews.
Claudine Gay, pictured during her disastrous appearance before Congress on December 5, will remain president of Harvard, it was reported early Tuesday
She was subsequently forced to apologize after the hearing in which Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania was fired from her job over a similar response.
Gay, who denied plagiarism on Monday, first sparked anger after the Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 people in Israel with a tepid condemnation of the outrage.
She was then forced to issue two subsequent apologies, in which she issued a louder condemnation of Hamas, the Palestinian terror group behind the atrocities.
Gay has been criticized for taking a pro-free speech stance on hatred of Jews on a campus recently labeled the most censorious in the United States.
New students are warned that not using a person's requested pronoun or being “fatphobic” could constitute violence.
Gay also helped lead the charge against a brilliant black professor at Harvard Law School who was fired from his job after defending Harvey Weinstein.
Ronald Sullivan says he was fired from his job in 2019 after agreeing to represent the perverted movie mogul. He accused Gay and others of making up a false story about him being a bully to get rid of him.
Sullivan said, “The actions were cowardly and cowardly and Dean Gay and Dean Khurana just consistently and repeatedly lied to the students and they know better.
“Their problem was that I represented an unpopular person… They said it to my face and other senior members said it to my face and then they turned around and lied to the students.”
Ackman and others have since begun withdrawing donations from the college.