Harvard President Claudine Gay FINALLY condemns the ‘terrorist atrocities committed by Hamas’ in Israel – after 31 college student groups pledged support to insurgents

Harvard President Claudine Gay has finally condemned the ‘terrorist atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel’ – at odds with the views of many students at the college. 

In a statement published on the Ivy League institution’s website, Gay said the 31 student groups who pledged to support the Islamic militants ‘don’t speak for the university or its leadership’. 

More than 700 Israelis were slaughtered over two days when Hamas launched its attack at the weekend, and hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza have now also been killed as Benjamin Netanyahu’s government hit back. 

The leaders of one of America’s most prestigious colleges stayed quiet as the death tolls on both sides breached quadruple figures – until today.  

In a statement published on the Ivy League institution’s website, Gay said the 31 student groups who pledged to support the militants ‘don’t speak for the university or its leadership’

‘As the events of recent days continue to reverberate, let there be no doubt that I condemn the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas,’ Gay said in a statement. 

‘Such inhumanity is abhorrent, whatever one’s individual views of the origins of longstanding conflicts in the region.

‘Let me also state, on this matter as on others, that while our students have the right to speak for themselves, no student group — not even 30 student groups — speaks for Harvard University or its leadership.

‘We will all be well served in such a difficult moment by rhetoric that aims to illuminate and not inflame. 

‘And I appeal to all of us in this community of learning to keep this in mind as our conversations continue.’

Students at 31 organizations released a letter to the public as a ‘Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine’ on Sunday to condemn Israel in the wake of the violence.

‘The apartheid regime is the only one to blame,’ they said. ‘Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years.

‘From systematized land seizures to routine airstrikes, arbitrary detentions to military checkpoints, and enforced family separations to targeted killings, Palestinians have been forced to live in a state of death, both slow and sudden.’