Harvard president suddenly feels "regret" for her testimony before Congress

Harvard President Claudine Gay testified before Congress Tuesday and now feels sorry for the blowback she's gotten after anti-Semitic remarks she made on antisemitism. [H/T Fox News]

"I am sorry. Words matter." the obvious anti-Semite said in an interview with The Harvard Crimson on Thursday regarding her testimony.

"When words amplify distress and pain, I don’t know how you could feel anything but regret," she said, in an attempt to keep her job. 

On Tuesday, Gay sat before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce to discuss antisemitism and threats against Jewish students on Harvard’s campus. She, like her two colleague clowns from MIT and UPenn, refused to say that the genocidal chants and threats students made against Jews should be considered harassment because of "context," and for some reason she now claims to be sorry.

During an exchange with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), she was asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews on campus violates the university’s codes of conduct related to bullying and harassment.

Gay said it would depend on the "context" of the incident. That is, if the harassment happened to be against black, Muslims, LGBTQ, or other "disenfranchised" groups, then yes, it would be harassment and should result in serious consequences for the perpetrators. But in this case, it's about those, you know, the Jews. They think they're so great with their Albert Einstein and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, but they're not.

When asked to give a yes or no answer, Gay said antisemitic speech could warrant action from Harvard if the conduct crosses into bullying, harassment and intimidation.

Stefanik again pressed Gay to provide a simple yes or no response.

"Again, it depends on the context," Gay said.

Rep. Stefanik said on Fox News' "Faulkner Focus" Wednesday that she was "shaken" after the three stooges who refused to state that calling for Jewish genocide would violate their respective university codes of conduct.

ELISE STEFANIK: I've been in a number of very high-profile congressional hearings over the years and the pathetic moral depravity on display by the witnesses, the three university presidents from Harvard, M.I.T and Penn. I've never witnessed anything like that. And I asked the question in such a way that it was easy. Yes, that calling for the genocide of Jews, in fact, does violate their policies and code of conduct when it comes to bullying and harassment. And their answers were pathetic. I was so shaken and what was probably the most tragic aspect of the hearing to me was there were a number of Jewish students from those schools in the audience sitting behind them. And to watch just the fear as they're listening to the presidents of these universities fail to answer a basic question of moral clarity. It was abysmal. They don't deserve the dignity of resigning. They need to be fired.

Following the well-deserved blasting Gay received on social media, she tried convincing us that some had "confused" a right to free expression with the notion that Harvard condones "calls for violence against Jewish students."

"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," she blathered.

Gay further clarified her comments during her interview with the Crimson.

"I got caught up in what had become at that point, an extended, combative exchange about policies and procedures," Gay said. "What I should have had the presence of mind to do in that moment was return to my guiding truth, which is that calls for violence against our Jewish community — threats to our Jewish students — have no place at Harvard and will never go unchallenged. Substantively, I failed to convey what is my truth."

Whenever anyone uses the words 'my truth,' they are lying by implying their beliefs comport with reality. People use that term to absolve themselves of wrongdoing. There is only 'truth,' and it doesn't belong to anyone--it's fact. 

All of three presidents who testified on Capitol Hill, and all others who refuse to hold those students who hate and make threats of genocide, need to be fired.

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