A billboard truck calling for Harvard President Claudine Gay to be fired was seen around the Massachusetts campus on Sunday, following the resignation of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill.
The privately funded truck read “FIRE GAY” and included a photo of Gay during his appearance before Congress last week, according to Fox News.
Harvard President Magill and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth have come under fire after failing to denounce students’ calls for the genocide of Jews.
One truck was seen driving around campus, while another was parked at the school’s main gate rocking Gay’s exchange with New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, where Harvard’s president said calls for genocide only qualify as harassment or bullying “depending on the context. “
The unidentified private funder of the billboard will also deploy a plane to campus later this week with a banner reading: “HARVARD — STOP JEW HATRED,” Fox News reported.
“One down, two more,” the private funder told Fox.
His remarks resonated with Stefanik, who called on Harvard and MIT to “do the right thing” after Magill’s resignation.
A truckload of billboards calling for Harvard President Claudine Gay to be fired was seen around the Massachusetts campus. X / @AccuracyInMedia
He warned that the two schools can now “expect a robust and comprehensive Congressional investigation into all aspects of their institutional negligence against antisemitism including administration, faculty, funding and overall leadership and governance.”
StopAntisemitism group also wrote“Let’s hope a Gay Harvard President will come.”
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Harvard’s president is also facing pressure to resign internally, with a leading rabbi at the school quitting its antisemitism committee.
Gay later apologized for his testimony. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A banner reading “Harvard hates Jews” was flown on the Ivy League campus. REUTERS/Faith Ninivaggi
“The system at Harvard along with the ideology that grips too many students and faculty, an ideology that works only along the axis of oppression and positions Jews as oppressors and therefore intrinsically evil, is evil,” wrote David Wolpe.
He praised Gay as a “kind and thoughtful” person but said his congressional comments were “grossly inadequate” in addressing rising antisemitism on the Cambridge campus and elsewhere.
In response to the backlash to his testimony, Gay apologized for his statement.
University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned following the backlash. AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File
“I’m sorry. Words matter,” Gay said during an interview with the Harvard Crimson on Thursday.
“When words amplify hardship and pain, I don’t know how you can feel anything but regret,” he added.
But as the truck rolled on Sunday, Harvard’s Corporation and Board of Trustees convened Sunday to discuss Gay’s leadership, the response to his response to Congress and whether the school should issue a public statement, according to the Harvard Crimson.
The Post has reached out to Harvard for comment.
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