In the history of tone-deaf actions this incident goes to new heights: on Wednesday evening Harvard University president Claudine Gay lit the school’s menorah. With a Tiki torch no less.

Gay, as you’ll recall, was one of the three Ivy League professors who weaseled through explanations before Congress about the antisemitism that was prevalent on their campuses. And why calls for genocide of Jews didn’t rise to being a violation of the schools’ code of conduct.

It was all about the context, they explained in lawyerly fashion.

Then, for Harvard president Claudine Gay, her situation got even hotter. Not only was she unable to defend her inaction in protecting the Jewish students at her college, documents showed that Gay had plagiarized parts of her Ph.D. thesis.