The Harvard University Board of Directors announced that Claudine Gay will continue in her position as president of the prestigious American university, which is considered the most important university in the United States, after ignoring calls for her resignation, following a controversial hearing in Congress last week, which revolved around anti-Semitism on campus.

The decision by the Harvard Foundation, the university's highest governing body, ended a week of donor calls for Gay's resignation, which in turn received support from faculty members concerned about the university's independence from political pressure.

The newspaper quoted U. “Our extensive deliberations have affirmed our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and address the serious societal issues we face,” SA Today said of the board in a letter to the Harvard community Tuesday morning.

Last week witnessed persistent attempts by the Israeli lobby, and a wealthy group associated with the lobby, which donates large sums of money to the universities of Harvard, Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Technical Institute (MIT), to blackmail the universities and demand the resignation of the presidents of the three universities due to allowing student institutions and associations. Supporting the right of the Palestinians and criticizing Israel on university campuses.

Hundreds of faculty members at Harvard University signed a letter supporting the university's president, hours after her counterpart at another university affiliated with the prestigious Ivy League university resigned on Saturday, in the face of severe criticism and political pressure following her appearance at the hearing before Congress.

The letter, and the hearing, came at a time when a rise in hate attacks and offensive rhetoric targeting Jews and Muslims since the outbreak of the current conflict in Gaza has inflamed debate about the limits of freedom of expression in the United States.

The letter warned that political attempts to remove Gay "contrary to Harvard's commitment to academic freedom," the Boston Globe reported, and called on officials to "defend the university's independence."

Gay, University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill, and MIT President Sally Kornbluth gave long legal answers when asked in Congress whether students calling for "genocide of Jews" at their universities were violating the student code of conduct.

Reactions to their testimony were rapid and intense, with donors threatening to cancel millions of dollars provided to foundations, and heated discussions spreading on social media.

McGill resigned on Saturday. MIT's board of directors said it would support Kornbluth.