Obama Pressured Harvard to Keep DEI Misanthrope Claudine Gay

A new report has revealed that former President Barack Obama has privately lobbied for support of Harvard President Claudine Gay, who came under fire for statements made during a congressional hearing on antisemitism, and then for allegations of plagiarism. Like Claudine Gay, Obama was a mediocre student with no scholarly work or accomplishment of any kind, who rose to unimaginable heights because of affirmative action and woke promotion.

“According to a source familiar with the matter,” The Jewish Insider wrote, “Obama, a Harvard graduate, had privately lobbied on Gay’s behalf as she faced pressure to resign in the wake of her disastrous appearance before the congressional hearing on antisemitism.”

Anyone who thought affirmative action was merely some benign feel-good (though thoroughly unfair and insidious) scheme surely must now see how destructive and wicked its effects. The cataclysm of affirmative action policies was the Obama’s presidency, the most ruinous period in American history.

Obama is a Harvard graduate, militant Marxist, and funded Hamas as POTUS

The Chairman of the Harvard Board is an Obama insider & former admin official

Is Obama working behind the scenes to prop up Claudine Gay despite her anti-semitism & plagiarism?

We all know the answer https://t.co/UUNLIa0cKE

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) December 22, 2023

Obama himself “transferred” into the Ivy League with mediocre grades, and his Columbia college thesis has mysteriously disappeared. So this “constitutional law professor” who has never published a single scholarly article is an even bigger academic fraud than Claudine Gay. https://t.co/ahLRkVpYaL

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) December 22, 2023

Obama privately lobbied on Harvard President Claudine Gay’s behalf amid antisemitism controversy: Report

‘It sounded like people were being asked to close ranks,’ a source said of Obama’s involvement

By Nikolas Lanum Fox News, December 22, 2023 12:56pm EST

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A confidential source familiar with the matter told Jewish Insider on Tuesday that Obama, a Harvard graduate, had privately lobbied on Gay’s behalf following her congressional appearance about antisemitism and threats against Jewish students on the Ivy League campus.

“It sounded like people were being asked to close ranks to keep the broader administration stable—including its composition,” the source said of Obama’s involvement.

In early December, Gay sat before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, where she was asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews on campus violates the university’s codes of conduct related to bullying and harassment.

Her claim that the alleged conduct would only warrant a response from the school based on the “context” drew criticism across social media and even prompted a response from the White House.

Gay issued an apology after the hearing and the fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the university’s highest government body, released a Dec. 12 statement backing the Harvard president despite widespread calls for her resignation. The board also addressed allegations of plagiarism regarding Gay’s academic writing first flagged in October.

On Tuesday, Harvard’s research integrity officer, Stacey Springs, reportedly received a complaint detailing more than 40 allegations of plagiarism — ranging from missing quotation marks around a few phrases or sentences to entire paragraphs lifted verbatim — regarding Gay’s academic works, according to a document obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The Harvard Corporation also released a summary of a review Wednesday evening, saying Gay will request three corrections from Harvard’s Office of the Provost regarding her 1997 Ph.D. dissertation, The Harvard Crimson reported.

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Through additional review, Harvard said it found two additional instances of “duplicative language without appropriate attribution.”
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That same day, House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., sent a letter to Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker demanding more information about the university’s handling of plagiarism allegations against Gay and “the unequal application of Harvard’s Honor Code.”

The controversy has put a spotlight on Pritzker, a former Obama administration official and Chicago hotel billionaire who donated $100 million to Harvard last month.

Last December, Pritzker personally led the search committee that named Gay president, calling her a “remarkable leader who is profoundly devoted to sustaining and enhancing Harvard’s academic excellence” at the time.

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