The president of Harvard University will resign Tuesday, the prestigious US school’s student newspaper reported, after she faced criticism over allegations of plagiarism and anti-semitism. Claudine Gay was criticised in recent months after reports surfaced alleging that she did not properly cite scholarly sources in her academic work. Gay was also scrutinised after she allegedly declined to “say unequivocally whether calling for genocide of Jews violated Harvard’s code of conduct,” during testimony to Congress alongside the heads of MIT and the University of Pennsylvania last month. The univer…