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January 5, 2024

[Black former law professor and Harvard grad Winkfield] Twyman claimed [Claudine] Gay … disrupted the careers of prominent black male professors … [and] coordinated a “witch hunt” against [black Harvard] economics professor [rising star] Roland G. Fryer Jr. after his research into the [police] killings of unarmed black men in Houston, Texas, found no racial disparities [contradicting the “liberal” narrative].

                                                                        —New York Post, Dec, 29, 2023

In response to widespread criticism of her “disastrous” testimony on Capitol Hill, in which she declined to say that calling for the genocide of the Jews is inconsistent with Harvard’s Code of Conduct because this “depends on the context,” Harvard President Claudine Gay issued a typical non-apology apology,

There are some who have confused a right to free expression with the idea that Harvard will condone calls for violence against Jewish students.  Let me be clear: Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic group are vile, have no place at Harvard, and those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account.

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Gay is right about that because she herself confused the right to free speech with calls for violence against Jewish students.  

Her sudden grasp of the obvious appears to have been generated by her realization that her job as Harvard president was at stake. 

However, the damage had been done and calls by the students at Harvard for her to resign, coupled with proliferating accusations of a long career of plagiarism, Gay finally resigned her position as Harvard president, making her time in the position the shortest term (6 months) in history.  Unfortunately, her resignation letter and New York Times editorial after the fact show that since she still doesn’t grasp her errors, she should have been fired.

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In her resignation letter, after stating how hard the resignation has been, Gay states how “painful” it has been to:

witness the tensions and divisions that have riven our community in recent months, weakening the bonds of trust and reciprocity that should be our sources of strength and [mutual] support …

Yes, especially since Gay herself is a major source, in her testimony on Capitol Hill and her moral ambiguity prior to that in dealing with the threats against Jews on campus, of those tensions that have “riven” the community. 

Gay then states how distressing has been to:

have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor—two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am. 

Unfortunately, it was Gay herself who cast doubt on her commitment to these “bedrock values …” in her stubborn refusal to state the obvious in her testimony, and in her moral equivocation dealing with threats against Harvard’s Jewish students.  That is why she was called to Capitol Hill.  Has she forgotten?