Her shameful House testimony might be the proximate cause of Claudine Gay’s current troubles, but her entire record makes the case that Harvard can’t save itself until she’s out as president.

This is an even easier call than the ouster of University of Pennsylvania prez Liz Magill and Penn board chief Scott Bok — and should come with a major overhaul of Harvard’s board, too.

After all, the board installed her as prez six months ago: It knew what it was getting.

That she couldn’t even answer before the House whether calls for genocide of Jews on campus would violate Harvard’s Code of Conduct is only the final straw.

She supported rather than condemned the 34 Harvard student groups that declared Israel “entirely responsible” for Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities.

As rank antisemitism reared up on campus, her main response was to set up a task force, a complete stalling tactic, exposed as such by the resignation of Rabbi David Wolpe, who explained: “The system at Harvard” — like “the ideology that grips far too many of the students and faculty” and that “places Jews as oppressors” — is “itself evil.”

And Gay stands for that ideology: In her four years as dean, she enthusiastically pushed the “diversity, equity and inclusion” agenda, placing racial quotas and radical ideology as the guiding lights of Harvard’s future and stomping on speech that challenged or even questioned that agenda.

On her watch, Harvard descended to last place on the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression ranking of campus free speech.

Which exposes the utter insincerity of her efforts to justify her softness against antisemitism by claiming she’s just defending speech rights.

Fine: Hundreds of faculty signed a letter demanding she be kept on to “resist political pressures that are at odds with Harvard’s commitment to academic freedom”: They were really supporting her war on academic freedom, lest reform threaten their own privileges and pay.

Fact is, Gay’s backtrack from her testimony (“I failed to convey what is my truth”) is a lie: She said exactly what she (and many other academics) believe, actually toning it down in hopes of fending off her critics.

The real truth is that Harvard has chosen to become a breeding ground for radical, leftist ideology; the eruption of antisemitic hate in response to Hamas’ atrocities was the natural fruit of that turn.

As was Gay’s elevation to Harvard dean and then president.

Until she — and the faculty, board members and staff who think like her — are gone, Harvard will keep on marching in the wrong direction.