Claudine Gay warns of ‘a broader war’ in op-ed after being ousted from Harvard

A day after resigning, university’s first Black president says the call to testify on antisemitism at elite colleges was ‘a well-laid trap’

The first Black president of Harvard, who resigned Tuesday after a successful rightwing campaign to oust her, warned that the tactics used against her were “merely a single skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society”.

“Trusted institutions of all types – from public health agencies to news organizations – will continue to fall victim to coordinated attempts to undermine their legitimacy and ruin their leaders’ credibility,” Claudine Gay wrote in the New York Times on Wednesday, a day after she announced she was resigning from her position.