December hasn’t been a great month for Harvard President Claudine Gay — not that October and November reflected particularly well on the academic either. The newly minted Ivy League president fumbled the initial reaction and was slow to condemn the grossly antisemitic statement issued by several Harvard student organizations in the immediate aftermath of Hamas’ horrific October 7 attack on Israel. Her attempts to tidy that reaction up weren’t impressive.
Then, she testified before Congress. And if there was any benefit of the doubt previously granted Gay, she managed to squelch that with her ridiculous response about the necessity of context to determine whether calling for the genocide of Jews violates Harvard’s code of conduct. Since her disastrous visit to Capitol Hill, the academic has faced heightened scrutiny over her qualifications and body of work.
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