NAACP president Derrick Johnson wrote on his X account that attacks against Harvard University president Claudine Gay “are nothing more than political theatrics advancing a White supremacist agenda.”
“Enough is enough,” he wrote on X. “Harvard President Claudine Gay is a distinguished scholar and professor with decades of service in higher education. The recent attacks on her leadership are nothing more than political theatrics advancing a White supremacist agenda.”
Gay has faced a wave of backlash over her remarks at a December 5th congressional hearing about antisemitism on college campuses after Harvard experienced severe anti-semitism on campus. During her testimony, Gay declined to unequivocally state whether calls for the genocide of Jewish people violate the University’s policies on bullying and harassment. When asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate the university’s code of conduct she simply replied it “depends on the context of the situation.”
Representative Elise Stefanik also pressed Gay over chants of “intifada” at student protests. Gay said the calls for violence do not violate the university’s code of conduct and claimed that the university has a strong commitment to free speech and ideological diversity.
Enough is enough.
@Harvard President Claudine Gay is a distinguished scholar and professor with decades of service in higher education. The recent attacks on her leadership are nothing more than political theatrics advancing a white supremacist agenda.https://t.co/6RAP5e941Z
— Derrick Johnson (@DerrickNAACP) December 12, 2023