Cornell University President Martha Pollack quits after donor called for her to be fired over antisemitism on campus and mock trial where anti-Israel students convicted her of genocide

Cornell University President Martha Pollack has announced her resignation aft 7 years pursuing months of anti-Semitic demonstrations connected campus.

She said that her determination to time off had thing to do pinch nan polarizing governmental ambiance connected field aliases claims that she inadequately handled anti-Semitic demonstrations connected campus.

'I understand that location will beryllium tons of speculation astir my decision, truthful fto maine beryllium arsenic clear arsenic I can: This determination is excavation and excavation alone,' she wrote successful a university-wide email.

'After 7 fruitful and gratifying years arsenic Cornell's president — and aft a profession successful investigation and academia spanning 5 decades — I'm fresh for a caller section successful my life.' 

Pollack, whose past time successful agency will beryllium June 30, is now nan 4th Ivy League president to measurement down successful six months, joining nan ranks of erstwhile Harvard President Claudine Gay and erstwhile UPenn President Liz Magill - some of whom were ousted successful portion for their inadequate responses to field anti-Semitism post-October 7.

In a abstracted announcement, it was revealed that nan committee had asked nan assemblage provost, Michael I. Kotlikoff, to service successful nan interim for nan adjacent 2 years.

This comes aft 1 of Cornell University's awesome donors threatened to yank his costs successful January unless Pollack discontinue and nan institution turns its backmost connected diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

In an unfastened missive addressed to nan Board of Trustees, Jon Lindseth asked nan assemblage to reevaluate its 'misguided commitment' to DEI, arguing it has led to nan 'disgrace' of nan Ivy League institution successful nan past respective years.

Lindseth and his family person agelong been salient donors to nan upstate New York school, but nan postgraduate of nan people of 1956 now says he is 'alarmed by nan diminished value of acquisition offered lately by my alma mater because of its disastrous engagement pinch DEI policies that person infiltrated each portion of nan university.'

Despite backlash complete his DEI commentary, Lindseth insists that he favors 'the Blacks' at Cornell.

He called her consequence to aggregate acts of overt anti-Semitism connected field successful nan aftermath of October 7, ' shameful.'

The disgraced president has been nether nationalist occurrence since astonishing acts of anti-Semitism began occurring connected her field successful nan aftermath of Hamas' barbaric onslaught connected Israel.

Lindseth said he believed nan horrifying displays of anti-Semitism, which included convulsive threats made against nan school's Jewish students and kosher eating hall, successful summation to an subordinate professor declaring publically his joyous support of Hamas' October 7 attacks, are a manifestation of nan progressive ideology nan schoolhouse has adopted.

Pollack told nan Cornell organization that she'd alerted nan FBI astir nan threats.

'We return each threats earnestly and are moving intimately pinch Cornell and our rule enforcement partners astatine each level to find nan credibility, stock information, and return due investigative action,' wrote nan agency successful a statement.

'Nothing is much important than nan information of our communities and we will not tolerate unit motivated by dislike and extremism.'