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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024.

I'm Eben Brown.

Harvard's embattled president, Claudine Gaye, agrees to resign following outrage and defiance

over rising anti-Semitic hate incidents on the vaunted campus as well as

revelations of her own academic transgressions. From the very beginning the

corporation is aware of the charges of plagiarism and they stick by her, they threaten people making these

charges instead of launching an investigation, a real investigation.

This is the Fox News rundowndown, Evening Edition.

Just weeks ago, Harvard University President Claudine Gay,

along with some presidents of other Ivy League institutions, sat before a congressional

panel refusing to say whether or not anti-Semitism on their campuses ought to be curbed and

condemned.

Gay herself now infamously seemed to have given cover to a rising tide of Jew hate on campus.

Here's the exchange with New York Congresswoman Elise Stephanic.

Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of bullying and harassment?

Yes or no.

It can be depending on the context.

And in the time since allegations arose in public forums that Gay had unaddressed issues of plagiarism

in her academic publications.

They were brought to light by education activists Chris Rufo and reported extensively in the Washington Free Beacon,

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