Conservative advocacy groups hired a sign truck Tuesday that read “Moving Day, Claudine Gay” and parked it outside the embattled administrator's school-owned residence.
The organization Accuracy in Media also deployed a U-Haul vehicle outside the historic 1877 Loeb House to mark the departure of Gay, who resigned as university president on Tuesday.
Under relentless pressure and amid dual accusations of anti-Semitism and plagiarism in academic papers, she agreed to resign.
“We had to return to campus one last time to say goodbye to Harvard's leading anti-Semites,” the group tweeted along with a photo of the two vehicles. “We even brought her a moving truck!”
Gay's ouster came after supporters of the Jewish state accused students and faculty of anti-Semitism in the wake of Hamas' deadly October 7 invasion that left more than 1,000 people dead. It began with a swirling campus controversy surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Those sympathetic to the Palestinian cause countered that they had a right to criticize Israel's bombing campaign and the mounting civilian death toll.
Ms. Gay found herself in an escalating political storm after refusing to denounce in a letter the student group that blamed Israel for the Hamas attack.
She then appeared before Congress on December 5 and was charged with failing to properly condemn calls for the extermination of Jews.
Already a shaky gay man, he was later accused of a series of unrelated plagiarism charges and was eventually forced to resign.
“While Claudine Gay repeatedly failed to condemn calls for the complete and utter annihilation of the Jewish people, she tacitly encouraged those who sought to spread hatred at Harvard University. “Many Jews no longer feel safe studying, identifying, and fully participating in the Harvard University community,” Roni Brann, a spokeswoman for the Jewish Federation of Harvard University, said in a statement this week. Ta.
Other campus officials, including 500 faculty and staff, have previously defended Gay and argued that the movement to exclude her was unjust.
“The important work of preserving the culture of free inquiry in our diverse communities cannot proceed if we allow its shape to be determined by outside forces,” they wrote in Harvard University's student newspaper. I wrote this in a letter that was sent to me.
Gay will now return to Harvard's faculty, where he served as dean until being selected to lead the school just six months ago.
Alan M. Garber, currently president and chief academic officer, will serve as interim president until the school selects a new leader.
