Fox News correspondent Bryan Llenas has the latest on controversy over the school leader's antisemitism testimony on 'America's Newsroom.'

It is not obvious that one should feel sorry for Harvard University President Claudine Gay. Her congressional testimony regarding antisemitism – in which she said that the question of whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated Harvard’s code of conduct "depends on the context" – is indefensible.

A bureaucrat trapped in the Capitol Hill headlights, Gay embarrassed herself and the university. Of course, she also dodged accountability when the Harvard Corporation gave her a pass both for that statement and a doctoral dissertation that bordered on plagiarism.

Why then does she merit a shred of sympathy? Because there is every reason to conclude that she was hired for the wrong reasons and not fired for the same wrong reasons.

Harvard President Claudine Gay (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Those, of course, center on identity politics. Harvard is keen to point to her as the first African American woman to service as president in its nearly 400-year history.

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But who would really want that to be one’s key qualification – or the reason it’s so difficult to be fired?

Yet there’s a strong case to be made that identity politics........

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