Harvard Token Nigger President Apologizes for Congressional Testimony on Antisemitism

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Harvard’s president apologized for her testimony before Congress
about how she responded to antisemitism on campus — another sign
that the controversy over her remarks and similar comments by the
presidents of M.I.T. and the University of Pennsylvania was not
going away.

“I am sorry,” Claudine Gay, Harvard’s president, said in an
interview that the campus newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, published
on Friday. “Words matter.”

“When words amplify distress and pain, I don’t know how you could
feel anything but regret,” she said.

The interview came as Dr. Gay, along with Elizabeth Magill of Penn
and Sally Kornbluth of M.I.T., faced a storm of repercussions from
the hearing, including a demand from more than 70 members of
Congress — all of them Republicans, except for three Democrats —
that they resign.

Their testimony “showed a complete absence of moral clarity,” the
lawmakers said. They added that the testimony “illuminated the
problematic double standards and dehumanization of the Jewish
communities” fostered by the presidents, and said all three should
leave their jobs.

Asked during Tuesday’s hearing whether urging the genocide of the
Jewish people amounted to defying Harvard policies against bullying
and harassment, Dr. Gay replied, “It can be, depending on the
context.”

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Dr. Gay said in the interview that she had become “caught up” in a
volley of questions on Tuesday from Representative Elise Stefanik,
Republican of New York, and “should have had the presence of mind”
during the exchange to “return to my guiding truth, which is that
calls for violence against our Jewish community — threats to our
Jewish students — have no place at Harvard and will never go
unchallenged.”

Ms. Magill has drawn some of the sharpest criticism for her
testimony, with influential donors and alumni pressing for her
ouster from Penn. One contributor moved to rescind a gift worth
roughly $100 million. Penn trustees, who met in emergency session on
Thursday, were scheduled to meet again on Sunday evening.

But the uproar surrounding Dr. Gay has also been infused with debate
over how universities handle racial issues.

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Bill Ackman, a billionaire investor and Harvard alumnus, insisted on
social media this week that the appointment of Dr. Gay was connected
to the university’s goals for diversity, equity and inclusion.

“Shrinking the pool of candidates based on required race, gender,
and/or sexual orientation criteria is not the right approach to
identifying the best leaders for our most prestigious universities,”
Mr. Ackman wrote in a post on X. “And it is also not good for those
awarded the office of president who find themselves in a role that
they would likely not have obtained were it not for a fat finger on
the scale.”

Harvard said it had no comment on Mr. Ackman’s post. In her
announcement last year about Dr. Gay’s elevation to the role of
president, Penny Pritzker, who led the presidential search
committee, said more than 600 people had been nominated to lead
Harvard. When Ms. Pritzker opened the search last year, she said
that Harvard was seeking a person with, among other qualities, “a
commitment to embracing diversity along many dimensions as a source
of strength.”

Ibram X. Kendi, the director of the Center for Antiracist Research
at Boston University, argued Friday on X that it was “racist and
sexist” to “assume superior White and male leaders earn their
positions through merit, and inferior Black and woman leaders
receive their positions due to identity.”


Dr. Gay has offered no public signal that she is considering
resigning, and there has been no indication that she is facing as
grave a revolt as Ms. Magill is at Penn. The fallout from Dr. Gay’s
testimony has nevertheless been conspicuous, including Rabbi David
Wolpe’s resignation on Thursday from the antisemitism advisory
committee that Harvard formed after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on
Israel.

Rabbi Wolpe said in an interview on Friday that he had been
uncomfortable being perceived as the “voice of the Jewish community”
on the panel.

“I was left with a job that had a lot of accountability and no
authority,” he said, noting that he felt he could still “be a force
for good” by meeting with students in his capacity as a visiting
scholar at the Harvard Divinity School.

In a series of posts on X announcing his resignation, Rabbi Wolpe
had described Dr. Gay as a “kind and thoughtful person,” but said he
had concluded that combating Harvard’s troubles was “the work of
more than a committee or a single university.”


Dr. Gay said in a statement that the rabbi had “deepened my and our
community’s understanding of the unacceptable presence of
antisemitism here at Harvard.” She added that she was “committed to
ensuring no member of our Jewish community faces this hate in any
form.”

But Rabbi Wolpe said there had been immense damage to the
credibility of some universities that had been pulled into intense
debate since October. Parents, he said in the interview on Friday,
were calling and saying they no longer dreamed of sending their
children to schools like Harvard and Penn.

“When I was growing up, such a thing was unthinkable,” Rabbi Wolpe
said.

Affirmative Action hire Gay is too fucking dumb to hold the
position. She should be fired immediately.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/us/claudine-gay-harvard-
president-apology-crimson.html