If next week, anti-Israel students once again call for the destruction of the Jewish people in Israel all the way "from the river to the sea," or if they again storm Harvard's Widener library, screaming support for the October 7 massacre and intimidating Jewish students, what will the new — or old — Harvard do?
"Gay stepped down, remember, amid serious allegations of serial plagiarism — without refuting the charges. She proved either unable or unwilling to discipline those on her campus who were defiantly antisemitic in speech and action.
"But Gay's removal is not the end of Harvard's dilemma. Rather, it is the beginning.
"In the respective press releases from both Gay and the Harvard Corporation, racial animus was cited as a reason for her removal.
"Gay did not even refer to her failure to stop antisemitism on her campus or her own record of blatant plagiarism.
"Yet playing the race card reflects poorly on both and for a variety of reasons.
"One, Gay's meager publication record — a mere eleven articles without a single published book of her own — had somehow earned her a prior Harvard full professorship and presidency. Such a thin resume leading to academic stardom is unprecedented.
"Two, the University of Pennsylvania forced the resignation of its president, Liz Magill. She sat next to Gay during that now-infamous congressional hearing in which they both claimed they were unable to discipline blatant antisemitism on their campuses.
"Instead, both pleaded "free speech" and "context" considerations.
"Such excuses were blatantly amoral and untrue. In truth, ivy-league campuses routinely sanction, punish, or remove staff, faculty, or students deemed culpable for speech or behavior deemed hurtful to protected minorities — except apparently white males and Jews.
"Yet Magill was immediately forced to resign, and Gay was not. Also noteworthy was Magill's far more impressive and extensive administrative experience, along with a more prestigious scholarship that was free of even a suggestion of plagiarism." . . .
Claudine Gay’s Resignation Letter and New York Times Editorial Make the Case for her Firing - American Thinker . . ."New York's Republican Rep. Elise Stefanak asked her a simple question with an obvious answer but Gay, incomprehensibly, gave irresponsible answers that even eventually led Harvard students, not “the vast right-wing conspiracy” or “white racists” to call for her resignation. Gay still does not understand that her appointment as Harvard president was not about her. It was about the proper free and open education of Harvard students.
"Thirty years ago, black Democrat Texas congresswoman Barbara Jordan inspired praise from both sides of the aisle because she spent less time thinking about herself and more time about doing her job with the highest standards of fairness to both sides.
"Claudine Gay is no Barbara Jordan. If she were, she would still be the president of Harvard."
Mr. Sharpton, you sure this is a hill you want to die on?
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