Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-03), who is running to represent Arizona in the U.S. Senate, continues to hold his silence regarding Harvard University President Claudine Gay. The congressman’s campaign has not responded to multiple Arizona Sun Times press inquiries after Gay refused to clearly state in Congress that calling for the death of Jews violates the university’s code of conduct, and now faces at least three plagiarism accusations.
The Sun Times reported on Monday that Gallego’s campaign did not respond to a press inquiry seeking comment about Gay’s controversial testimony. On Tuesday, the Gallego campaign did not respond to a second press inquiry from The Sun Times that asked about Gay’s antisemitism scandal and the subsequent plagiarism allegations levied against her.
Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake, who is widely expected to be Gallego’s eventual opponent in 2024, wrote that Gallego’s lack of a statement means he “refuses to condemn” Gay’s testimony.
Lake was joined in her criticism by the National Republican Senatorial Fund (NRSC), which has reportedly considered supporting her campaign and has commissioned polling for a hypothetical general election race between Lake, Gallego, and Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ).
“Ruben Gallego is so beholden to the far left fringes of his party that he can’t be bothered to join over 70 members of Congress in condemning the president of his alma mater’s disgraceful testimony and refusal to resign,” NRSC spokesman Tate Mitchell said in a statement to The Washington Examiner. Mitchell told the outlet Gallego’s “silence speaks volumes,” citing the “rampant antisemitism on display on college campuses.”
In addition to criticism over her remarks before Congress, the embattled president has faced controversy for allegedly plagiarizing the works of academic scholar and author Carol Swain, papers written by former Harvard political science professor Bradley Palmquist and Stephen Voss, a former classmate who was in Gay’s Ph.D. program, and phrases from a 2011 paper written by University of Miami professor Anne Williamson.
Swain told The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy the alleged plagiarism left her “seething,” and asserted that Harvard is attempting to “redefine and reimagine what constitutes plagiarism” to protect Gay.
“We all know what plagiarism is, and they have decided that keeping a DEI president is more important than protecting their brand,” Swain told Leahy, who is the editor-in-chief of The Sun Times. The Harvard board determined on Tuesday that Gay would keep her position as the university’s president.
Gallego similarly did not respond to press inquiries from The Examiner and The Arizona Republic, which noted Gallego’s silence in articles published Wednesday.
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Georgia Star News, The Virginia Star, and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Background Photo “University of Harvard Campus” by John Phelan. CC BY 3.0.
I feel this is a question that must be answered. Why is the ADL, SPLC and the US as a whole silent over the biggest act of anti-Semitism of the 21st Century?
That is the actions of the Canadian Government and Ukranian Zelensky cheering and honoring Canada’s Ukrainian Waffen SS Nazis?
All of your silence is incriminating!