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Stefanik NOT accepting Harvard president’s weak apology: ‘You spoke your truth under oath 17x’

December 9, 2023 | | Print Article

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) blasted Harvard University President Claudine Gay after she apologized for controversial remarks that she made during a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism earlier this week.

Long one of America’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning, the Ivy League university that has churned out generations of the nation’s leaders has been exposed as a cesspool of Jew-hatred under Gay’s tenure as its students have protested Israel’s righteous efforts to destroy the Hamas terror organization in Gaza and have called for Jewish genocide.

In an interview with The Harvard Crimson that was published on Thursday, the “diversity hire” said that she was sorry for seeming to give a free pass to antisemites when she was being grilled by lawmakers over the troubling atmosphere at the Cambridge Massachusetts snob factory.

“When words amplify distress and pain, I don’t know how you could feel anything but regret,” she told the student newspaper. “I got caught up in what had become at that point, an extended, combative exchange about policies and procedures.”

Stefanik wasn’t buying it, shredding Gay over her tepid effort to absolve herself from her role in the implosion of the university that has suffered immeasurable damage due to the toxic climate that she has enabled.

“No, Dr. Gay. You were given an opportunity to speak your truth. And you did. Not once. Not twice Not 5x. Not 10x I asked you 17x(!!!) in the hearing about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violates @Harvard code of conduct. You spoke your truth under oath 17x. And the world heard it,” the New York Republican wrote on X.

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During the hearing, the congresswoman repeatedly pressed Gay on whether calls for the genocide of Jews on campus were a violation of the university’s code of conduct.

“At Harvard, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment?” Rep. Stefanik asked, a simple question that Gay did her best Karine Jean-Pierre imitation of by dancing around without ever giving a direct answer.

“It can be, depending on the context,” Gay responded, repeatedly invoking the same phrase as Stefanik put her on the spot.

“It does not depend on the context. The answer is yes and this is why you should resign,” Stefanik said. “These are unacceptable answers across the board.”

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“There are some who have confused a right to free expression with the idea that Harvard will condone calls for violence against Jewish students,” Gay told the Harvard Crimson. “Let me be clear: Calls for violence or genocide against the Jewish community, or any religious or ethnic group are vile, they have no place at Harvard, and those who threaten our Jewish students will be held to account.”

“It doesn’t take a Harvard degree to see the problem here,” Stefanik wrote in an op-ed for the Daily Mail. “It is now all-too-clear that heinous antisemitism has taken root on Ivy League campuses.”

“Higher education has long been a hotbed of Leftist hatred, engendering woke groupthink in the next generation. And here’s proof that it’s coming directly from the top, from university presidents who are unwilling to stand up for anyone who doesn’t fit their warped world view of what constitutes a ‘victim’ – in this case, their own oppressed Jewish students,” she said.

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