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Pressure mounts on Harvard president Claudine Gay to step down

Harvard University President Claudine Gay is facing mounting pressure to resign over her congressional testimony on antisemitism on campus. Dr Gay, 53, was forced to apologise after she failed to say whether students calling for the genocide of Jewish people would be disciplined.

Hundreds of Harvard faculty rallied behind her over the weekend, urging the university not to fire her. Her fate may be decided at a meeting of the Harvard Corporation on Monday.

Dr Gay's comments, which were widely criticised, were made at a House of Representatives hearing last week alongside Elizabeth Magill and Sally Kornbluth, her counterparts from the University of Pennsylvania and MIT.

During tense questioning from Republican congresswoman Elise Stefanik, Dr Gay said it "depends on the context" when asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews would constitute a violation of Harvard's code of conduct regarding bullying and harassment.

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