Harvard University’s president, under fire over testimony she gave about anti-Semitism on campus, will remain in her job after a meeting of the institution’s governing body issued a statement backing her, AFP reports.

Claudine Gay has been engulfed by criticism after she declined to unequivocally say whether calling for genocide of Jews violated Harvard’s code of conduct as she testified before Congress alongside the heads of MIT and Pennsylvania universities.

“It depends on the context,” she told lawmakers in one tense exchange.

The Harvard Corporation, one of the university’s two governing boards, said in a statement, “we today reaffirm our support for President Gay’s continued leadership of Harvard University.”

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