Harvard President Claudine Gay resigns after antisemitism accusations

Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing. She faces accusations of being unable to “definitively affirm” that advocating for the genocide of Jews on campus would breach the school’s conduct policy. Harvard’s first black president announced her departure just months into her tenure in a letter to the Harvard community. In her letter, she said it has been “distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor – two bedrock values that are fundament…

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