Harvard President Claudine Gay resigns after antisemitism accusations

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In her resignation letter, Gay said "It has become clear that it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge".

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00:00 Harvard University's president resigns after controversies over plagiarism and anti-Semitism,

00:08 after ambiguous statements about anti-Semitism last month in the US Congress.

00:13 Claudine Gay, the first black president of the prestigious university, has been under

00:18 scrutiny for weeks for her management of institutional communication around the war between Israel

00:25 and Hamas.

00:26 Harvard has appointed economist and physician Alan Garber to take over the job as interim

00:31 president.

00:32 [WHOOSH]

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