Harvard staff defend embattled head Claudine Gay amid anti-Semitism row | Education News
Over 500 faculty members at Harvard University have signed a petition supporting President Claudine Gay amid criticism over her response to a congressional hearing on rising anti-Semitism in the US. The petition argues that dismissing Gay would contradict Harvard’s commitment to academic freedom. This controversy arose after Gay, along with the heads of the University of Pennsylvania and MIT, did not precisely answer whether calls for the genocide of Jews would breach university policy; they said it would depend on the context. More than 70 US legislators have demanded the presidents’ removal. Universities in the US have been criticized for not sufficiently protecting Jewish students amid backlash to Israel’s conflict in Gaza.
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