The Harvard “doxxing truck” has shifted to hounding the Ivy League school’s embattled president — flashing her image and the message “Claudine Gay: the best friend Hamas ever had,” The Post has learned.
Non-profit news watchdog Accuracy in Media — which first made headlines by exposing the names of Harvard students affiliated with a pro-Hamas letter following the Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel — deployed four billboard-bearing trucks outside Gay’s home on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Each truck idling near her residence, which is in a prominent building on the school’s campus in Cambridge, Mass., scrolled through different messages that took aim at the 53-year-old Gay.
One implored Gay “to RESIGN,” while another digital billboard claimed she “REFUSES to protect Jewish students.”
Accuracy in Media President Adam Guillette — who had also targeted University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill before she resigned over the weekend — said it was vital to keep the pressure on Harvard despite the school’s board decision to stick by Gay.
“I think accountability is incredibly important, and we’ve never counted on universities to hold their out-of-control presidents accountable. That’s where we come in,” Guillette told The Post on Wednesday.
“I think [Gay] needs to, one, put a greater focus on protecting Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus and, two, stand up to terrorist sympathizers on campus.”
“If she’s not going to do that, then she should get similar treatment that those students received,” Guillette said.
Representatives for Harvard did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The trucks also display the website HarvardHatesJews.com, which leads to a forum that encourages users to send an email to members of Harvard’s board of trustees urging them to take action against on-campus antisemitism.
It also offers a pre-written message to send the school’s leadership, which reads: “As an overseer at Harvard, you have a moral obligation to take a stand against the antisemites on campus,” and urges these high-ranking staffers to “expel these students and kick their organizations off campus immediately.”
Guillette said that “people are incredibly thrilled with the opportunity to email the board,” noting that “multiple days last week, over 5,000 individuals — separate people — sent emails.”
Last Thursday, over 6,300 visited HarvardHatesJews.com and used the forum to fire off an email to Harvard’s leadership, according to Guillette.
Accuracy in Media’s latest doxxing campaign comes less than a week after the same trucks circled Harvard’s campus and demanded that Gay be fired over her disastrous congressional testimony last week alongside the presidents of UPenn and MIT.
During an exchange with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Gay was asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews on campus violates the university’s codes of conduct related to bullying and harassment.
Gay said it would depend on the “context” of the incident.
When pressed to give a yes-or-no answer, Gay said antisemitic speech could warrant action from Harvard if the conduct crosses into bullying, harassment, and intimidation.
“Again, it depends on the context,” Gay said.
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Gay’s comments drew swift backlash on social media and reportedly led to Harvard losing $1 billion from donors.
Gay’s academic and moral integrity, including before she rose to become Harvard’s president in July, has also come into question.
She is facing accusations that she plagiarized numerous portions of her 1997 Ph.D. thesis while obtaining her doctorate from Harvard, a direct violation of the school’s academic integrity policies.
The Harvard Corporation said officials became aware of claims of plagiarism in late October and initiated an independent review, finding “a few instances of inadequate citation.”
“While the analysis found no violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct, President Gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications.”
Still, the fellows said in its Dec. 9 decision: “In this tumultuous and difficult time, we unanimously stand in support of President Gay.”
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