(JTA) — The pressure that built on Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, to resign began after what many thought was a tepid campus response to the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7.
In a statement, Getzel Davis, Campus Rabbi for Harvard Hillel, said his organization's priority is for the university to be a "safe and inclusive environment" for all students.
The weaponization of accusations of anti-semitism on college campuses is fueling the controversy over the Gaza war. This is despite the fact that experts point out that this hate speech isn’t a new phenomenon… and that it’s more often attributed to the extreme right
Harvard University President Claudine Gay has been engulfed by criticism over testimony she gave about antisemitism on campus in the wake of the Israel-Gaza war.