Claudine Gay Resignation

Claudine Gay was the President of Harvard University. She held the position for approximately 6 months until resigning. Gay was previously Dean of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 2018-2023.
There was continuous student protesting at Harvard directed towards the broad Jewish population of the world including fellow students and citizens of Israel. She accepted an invitation to a congressional hearing about these protests and other antisemitism following the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel.

There were continued calls of action for violence such as killing and beheading, threats of everyday becoming October 7th over and over until extinction of the Jewish race. Congress questioned what was being done to restrict and penalize antisemitic hate on her campus. US Representative Elise Stefanik from New York went viral for clashing with Claudine over her lack of action and effort in not condemning the violence or providing preventative measures towards it. This showing from Gay resulted in a fierce public backlash and her resigning. She claimed in an op-ed that her leaving Harvard was due to personal attacks and “racial animus” she’d received since the hearing, along with the fact everyone found out she plagiarized a majority of her works.