A group of “doxxing” trucks was displayed this week outside the home of Harvard University President Claudine Gay in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to images and videos shared with the Accuracy in Media group, which advocates for the trucks.
The trucks display messages criticizing the Harvard president
These trucks and vans, featuring LED screens, displayed messages criticizing the university president Claudine Gay, stating: “Claudine Gay refuses to protect Jewish students,” “Claudine Gay, it’s time to resign,” and “Claudine Gay: Hamas’s best friend ever.”
Details of the current situation and criticisms
In a statement published by Accuracy in Media on its website last week, the group cited Gay’s testimony during an intensive congressional hearing on antisemitism, arguing that her responses, along with those of then-University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill and MIT President Sally Kornbluth, were “at best weak and likely complicit in the antisemitism taking place on their campuses.”
Gay faced a wave of calls for her resignation after her testimony—where she stated that calls for the genocide of the Jewish people could violate the university’s code of conduct—but received unanimous support on Tuesday from Harvard’s governing body, an administrative body.
Criticism of the Harvard president
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who led a chorus of criticism regarding Harvard’s leadership response to antisemitism, stated in a comment on X: “Those behind the doxing trucks at Harvard should stop it now,” emphasizing that anyone “can support or criticize President Gay’s leadership,” but “disrupting her home with these trucks is unfair to her and her family, and an insult to all of us.”
Main background
Pressure has increased in recent weeks on Gay, Magill, and Kornbluth to resign following their testimony before the Republican-controlled Congressional Committee on Education and the Workforce last week, amid reports of rising antisemitism on campus. Two days after the hearing, a group of 74 House members, including 72 Republicans and two Democrats, signed a letter demanding the “immediate removal” of the three university presidents, asking universities to provide a “viable plan to ensure the safety of Jewish and Israeli students, teachers, and faculty,” adding that “any step short of these actions will be considered support for the presidents’ testimonies.” Ackman also urged Gay, Magill, and Kornbluth to resign “in disgrace,” asserting in a message posted on X that the three presidents have displayed a “profound educational and moral failure spreading through some of our elite educational institutions.” Gay later apologized amid calls for her resignation, stating to Harvard Crimson that she wishes she had returned to “her guiding truth, which is that calls for violence against our Jewish community” have “no place at Harvard and will not go unchallenged.” Magill resigned from her position on Saturday.
Further reading
Harvard governing body unanimously backs Claudine Gay as president
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