…The playbook that had successfully been used against her would soon be mobilized against other institutional leaders, Gay warned. “For the opportunists driving cynicism about our institutions, no single victory or toppled leader exhausts their zeal,” she said.
For the past month, the campaign against Gay, which included prominent Harvard donors, had centered on allegations of antisemitism and plagiarism in her academic work, focusing on her widely-criticised comments during a December congressional hearing on antisemitism on college campuses, and on multiple passages in her academic work that closely resembled the work of other scholars, without the appropriate citations.
Gay once again said she regretted not speaking forcefully enough against antisemitism on campus in Congressional remarks that had sparked bipartisan backlash, writing: “I should have stated more forcefully what all people of good conscience know: Hamas is a terrorist organization that seeks to eradicate the Jewish state” and that she had “neglected to clearly articulate that calls for the genocide of Jewish people are abhorrent and unacceptable and that I would use every tool at my disposal to protect students from that kind of hate”…






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