Harvard President Claudine Gay said she would resign from her position on Tuesday, ending a six-month tenure marred by allegations of plagiarism and backlash over her congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus.

Gay had come under pressure to resign from Harvard’s Jewish community and some members of Congress over her comments at the Dec. 5 congressional hearing, while also facing several allegations of plagiarism for her academic work in recent months.

  • flan [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Is this antisemitism thing just universities tolerating pro palestine views or is it actual antisemitism? it looks like shes not the only university president to have recently resigned

      • Maturin [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        15·
        9 months ago

        Any good links? I assumed it was pretext but now what you said has me super curious of the actual merits even without the whole Zionism angle.

        Also, since I’m commenting anyway, anyone else read the caption as her “resigning from Harvard’s Jewish community”?

        • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          13·
          9 months ago

          Gay had come under pressure to resign from Harvard’s Jewish community and some members of Congress over her comments at the Dec. 5 congressional hearing

          it also sounds like she resigned from some members of congress lol just very strange phrasing in this sentence

          just move “from Harvard’s Jewish community and some members of Congress” to before “to resign” and it becomes still a bit awkward but way easier to understand