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Students and professors at Harvard are feeling bruised but hoping for a return to calm after claims of anti-Semitism linked to fury over the war in Gaza ripped through the famous institution and other elite US universities.However, the protests quickly sparked alarm that anti-Semitism was flourishing in Harvard and other Ivy League universities, which host top students from around the world.

Since the start of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, prestigious US universities have come under fire, accused of not doing enough to combat anti-Semitism. The three top academics were peppered with questions about how their institutions intended to combat anti-Semitism. 

Students and professors at Harvard are feeling bruised but hoping for a return to calm after claims of anti-Semitism linked to fury over the war in Gaza ripped through the famous institution and other elite US universities.The historic campus in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was roiled in October by pro-Palestinian marches. The anger mirrored widespread concern among young, liberal American students over the civilian costs of Israel's war against Hamas after the militant group laun...

President Claudine Gay has faced backlash over remarks she made during congressional testimony last week, over the university's response to antisemitism.

Harvard alum and billionaire hedge fund CEO Bill Ackman said that Harvard was ‘concerned it would look like they were kowtowing to me’ if they fired Claudine Gay

Republicans hostile to the way elite universities shape the nation’s cultural and political debates are smelling blood in the water after a disastrous hearing in which the presidents of three schools refused to say students who called for the genocide of Jews would be disciplined. One of the presidents, Liz Magill of the University of…

Harvard president survives calls for removal after antisemitism hearing

Harvard University's president, under fire over testimony she gave about anti-Semitism on campus, will remain in her job after a meeting of the institution's governing body issued a statement backing her on Tuesday.The Harvard Corporation, one of the university's two governing boards, said in a statement, "we today reaffirm our support for President Gay's continued leadership of Harvard University."

The two governing bodies of Harvard University are meeting Monday to weigh the fate of President Claudine Gay, who has faced withering criticism for her testimony last week on antisemitism at elite colleges and universities.

Ken Cedeno/ReutersHundreds of Harvard faculty signed a letter in support of the school’s president, Claudine Gay, amid fallout from her responses to questions about on-campus anti-semitism at a congressional hearing last week. The faculty are calling on the administration not to remove Gay, because “defending a culture of free inquiry in our diverse community cannot proceed if we let its shape be dictated by outside forces,” according to the letter, which garnered over 300 s...