Lawrence H. Summers (left) and Claudine Gay (right).
Former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers (left) and current Harvard president Claudine Gay (right).
  • Lawrence H. Summers once served as Harvard's president. 
  • He told Bloomberg that Harvard's antisemitism row would be as tough to manage as the Vietnam War. 
  • "Perhaps more difficult," Summer said.

An ex-Harvard president says that managing the ongoing row about on-campus antisemitism is a serious reckoning for the Ivy League university.