And the next terminally awake Harvard boss will be… EVEN worse than Claudine The Martyr! The Desperate Prediction of a Jewish Student Sick of the Death of Meritocracy at the High Altar of DEI

Shabbat Kestenbaum is a graduate student at Harvard University, founder and president of the Harvard Divinity School Jewish Student Association.

Don't celebrate now that Claudine Gay is gone.

Harvard's next president could be even worse.

Since Hamas' despicable terrorist attacks on October 7, pro-Palestinian Harvard students have brazenly and routinely disrupted classes by calling for the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel “from the river to the sea.”

They sang for the “globalization of the Intifada” as their classmates – Jew and non-Jew – tried to teach.

Posters on campus bearing the names and faces of innocent men, women, children and elderly people abducted by Hamas terrorists have been torn down.

Jewish students have been physically accosted and spat at.

Most infamously, Harvard's president refused to say whether demands for Jewish genocide violated the university's harassment and bullying policy.

I still sit in classrooms next to students who praised the Hamas killers.

I walk past protesters in Harvard Yard calling for the eradication of the Jewish state.

I am instructed by professors and guest lecturers who continue to deny that rape and sexual violence were used as a weapon against the Israeli people.

Will everything suddenly change now that Dr. Gay is gone?

The obvious answer is no.

Just look at the reactions of some of my classmates and public “intellectuals” to Gay's resignation. Many claim her replacement “is a black woman.”

I say: here we go again.

That reaction stems from the same insidious ideology that led to the hatred of Jews that I experienced at Harvard under Gay.

Often referred to as DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), this social justice religion holds that racial identity is paramount to one's worth. It categorizes individuals as victims or perpetrators.

Anti-Semitism is easily justified through this DEI prism; Jews are white and whites are oppressors, so Jews are oppressors.

This creed became a hallmark of the Harvard educational process under Gay and undoubtedly led to the installation of unqualified candidates like her in positions of influence.

If the Harvard Corporation's statement about Gay's departure is any indication, they haven't learned anything either.

“President Gay has acknowledged and taken responsibility for missteps,” the board's statement said Tuesday.

'Acknowledged missteps'?

How?

Neither Gay nor the Harvard Corporation has said why she resigned.

'Taken responsibility'?

Hardly.

According to Gay's resignation letter, she is the victim of “racial animus.”

The intellectual dishonesty is staggering.

The truth is that Gay has irrevocably broken faith with the students, faculty and alumni of Harvard.

Under Claudine Gay, Harvard was not dominated by free debate, but by loud voices.

Intimidation tactics, such as occupying university buildings, became routine.

Career-crushing campaigns against beloved professors who questioned illiberal racial ideologies, such as economist Ronald Fryer and law professor Ronald Sullivan, served as dark harbingers.

In an institution where 96% of faculty identify themselves as “somewhat” or “very” liberal, the message was clear: step out of the line and you're on your own.

Double standards became commonplace.

The inability to address individuals by their preferred gender pronouns resulted in disciplinary action, but calls for the extermination of an entire race were considered protected speech.

Most fundamentally, a professor who had not written a single book and had published only eleven scholarly articles in nearly three decades was named president.

I have already heard from fellow Harvard students that Gay's resignation is an attempt to suppress free speech about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

On the contrary, rather than silencing Palestinian voices now that Gay is gone, Harvard can once again promote the exchange of ideas without fear of retaliation and free from the threat of cancel culture.

But ultimately Claudine Gay is a symptom of a much larger, institutional problem.

The Harvard Corporation owes the Harvard community honest answers.

Why was Claudine Gay removed? What were the mistakes during her tenure? How will these problems be addressed in the future?

DEI ideology that values ​​racial characteristics over intellectual value has corrupted Harvard.

If this is not recognized, Claudine Gay will not be the last to be forced to resign.