Why They Want to Silence Harvard's First Black Woman President
<p>Context is key. When Congress invited Gay and other leaders in academia to testify about antisemitism on college campuses and universities, they did so in an inquisition-style effort to pressure scholars to crack down on student groups showing solidarity with Palestinians, conflating any opposition to Israeli's policies as antisemitic. Why else center the hearing on the rise of antisemitism targeting Jewish people and conveniently ignore the rise of Islamaphobia impacting Palestinians? So, when Claudine Gay stepped into the halls of Congress to testify, she was already walking into a lion's den. Conservative senators, in particular, had no plans of having a good-faith discussion about antisemitism with Harvard's first Black president.</p>
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