The dean of the American Harvard University will remain in her post despite “political pressure” following statements deemed ambiguous on issues linked to anti-Semitism at the university, the institution’s governing body announced today.

“As members of the Harvard Foundation, we reaffirm today our support for the continued tenure of Provost (Claudine) Gay,” a press release said.

After the board’s emergency meeting last night, the governing body of America’s oldest university expressed its “confidence that Dean Gay he is the best person to lead to help our (university) community manage very serious social issues that we face.”

Gay, 53, born in New York to a family of Haitian immigrants, is a political science professor who in July became the first black chancellor of Harvard University, which was founded in Cambridge, Boston, 368 years ago.

As of the weekend, a petition of nearly 700 professors expressed opposition to calls and “political pressure” for the resignation of chancellor Claudine Gay, who has been accused of failing to adequately handle anti-Semitism problems at the university.

After her bloody attack Hamas in Israel on October 7which was followed by the Israeli military’s deadly reprisals in the Gaza Strip, this war is heating up passions at prominent US universities, such as Harvard.

Wealthy donors and voices from the Republican camp, but also from the Democrats, have denounced an increase in incidents of anti-Semitism at universities and criticized the too weak responses of the provost authorities, against the background of the repeated criticism of American universities, which they judge to adopt very leftist views.

More than 70 members of the US Congress in Washington, the majority of them Republicans, called for Gay’s resignation after a congressional hearing before the House of Representatives on December 5, where her answers on condemning anti-Semitism were found ambiguous and heavily criticized .