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Conservatives who pushed Harvard’s Claudine Gay to quit hate anti-semitism — but not as much as diversity, equity and inclusion: LEONARD GREENE

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07.01.2024

If conservatives could mount Claudine Gay’s head like a game hunting trophy, they’d clear a place on the wall — because that is how they view the former Harvard president.

The minute — no, the very second — the Harvard president refused at a congressional hearing to simply say “yes” when asked whether calls for the genocide of Jews violate the university’s rules of bullying and harassment, she was targeted for cancellation.

That would almost seem fair — if Gay had been targeted only on charges of antisemitism and for her failure to publicly protect Jewish students, faculty and staff at the most prestigious university in America.

She gave a lousy and insulting answer to a very simple question.

But the hunt for Gay’s head wasn’t just about antisemitism. It was about three things that many conservatives find equally deplorable — diversity, equity and inclusion.

“It is not lost on me that I........

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