It may be possible to save Harvard by first removing President Claudine Gay.

Claudine Gay’s current problems may have been directly caused by her embarrassing statement in the House, but her entire record suggests that Harvard cannot be saved until she is removed as president.

This is a much simpler decision than firing Penn board chairman Scott Bok and University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill, and it should also result in a significant reorganization of Harvard’s board.

The board knew what it was getting when it appointed her as president six months prior, after all.

The last straw is that she was unable to respond to questions from the House about whether calling for the extermination of Jews on campus would be against Harvard’s Code of Conduct.

The 34 Harvard student organizations that deemed Israel “entirely responsible” for the horrors committed by Hamas on October 7 were applauded by her rather than denounced.
Her primary response to the rise of blatant antisemitism on campus was to form a task force. This was a blatant attempt at stalling, as demonstrated by Rabbi David Wolpe’s resignation, which stated that “the Harvard system” is “itself evil,” much like “the ideology that grips far too many of the students and faculty” and that “places Jews as oppressors.”

Gay represents that philosophy as well: throughout her four years as dean, she aggressively promoted the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” agenda, elevating radical ideology and racial quotas to the status of Harvard’s guiding principles and suppressing any voice that dared to question or challenge it.

Under her leadership, Harvard’s standing for campus free speech dropped to the bottom of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s list.

which highlights the complete phoniness of her attempts to defend her leniency toward antisemitism by arguing that she is only upholding the freedom to free expression.

Fine: In order to “resist political pressures that are at odds with Harvard’s commitment to academic freedom,” hundreds of faculty members signed a letter requesting that she be kept on. In reality, they were backing her fight for academic independence out of fear that reform would jeopardize their benefits and salaries.

The truth is that Gay’s withdrawal of her testimony (“I failed to convey what is my truth”) is a fabrication; in an attempt to appease her detractors, she toned down her statement to reflect her beliefs, which are shared by many other academics.

In actuality, antisemitic hate was a natural outgrowth of Harvard’s decision to become a haven for radical, leftist philosophy, which has led to the crimes committed by Hamas.

Gay’s promotion to Harvard dean and later president was also noteworthy.

Harvard will continue to travel in the wrong path until she is gone, along with the professors, board members, and employees who share her viewpoint.