(NewsNation) — Harvard President Claudine Gay is planning to resign Tuesday afternoon, following backlash over her response to the Hamas attack in October and accusations of plagiarism.
Originally reported by the Harvard Crimson and the Boston Globe, Gay addressed her resignation in an open letter to the Harvard community.
Her resignation comes after public outcry over her performance in a Congressional hearing on antisemitism and accusations of plagiarism.
Gay came under fire for her answers during a Congressional hearing on antisemitism on college campuses in the wake of the Hamas attack on Oct. 7.
Gay and other presidents from top colleges were questioned by lawmakers who suggested they were failing to take antisemitic threats seriously.
Gay and others faced intense criticism for how they responded to questioning from Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY, who equated calls for intifada, the Arabic word for uprising, with calls for genocide of the Jewish people.
Gay responded, in part, that there would need to be context for her to answer how the university would respond to calls for genocide. She later issued an apology and faculty and administrators at Harvard backed her even as there were public calls for her resignation.
