1,000+ Harvard Students Walk Out of Commencement to Support Classmates Barred from Graduation

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More than a thousand Harvard students walked out of their commencement ceremony yesterday to support 13 undergraduates who were barred from graduating after they participated in the Gaza solidarity encampment in Harvard Yard. Asmer Safi, one of the 13 pro-Palestinian student protesters barred from graduating, says that while his future has been thrown into uncertainty while he is on probation, he has no regrets about standing up for Palestinian rights. “This is an ethical stance that we’re taking,” Safi says. We also hear from history professor Alison Frank Johnson, one of over 100 faculty members who voted to confer degrees on the 13 seniors, who describes Harvard’s punishment of them as an “egregious departure from past precedent,” as was the board’s subsequent overruling of faculty. “We hoped then that the Corporation, as it has always done in the past, would accept our recommendations for degree recipients and allow the 13 to graduate, which they chose not to do.”

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コメント (21)

@ShivaniGrail 1ヶ月前

I’m a 79 year old citizen of the USA 🇺🇸 and I stand with the students. They still have their moral compass 🧭
@DaemonJax 1ヶ月前

"Harvard Corporation". Let that sink in.
@1andyou2 21日前

I am 69 years old and about to witness the fall of my country What a sad state of affairs
@bigdaveo397 21日前

Good on these students. To walk out instead of taking their degrees. To say no to Harvard. To say no to having a Harvard degree.
@fahedal-ajmi4015 1ヶ月前

Respect to students and faculty who stood up for free speech and right to peaceful protest.
@MaryBorab 1ヶ月前

Feeling so bad for the 13 students that were not allowed to graduate. SHAME ON HARVARD😡
@battambangscooterandmotorc303 28日前

This just proves how far this university has fallen and is failing higher learning.
@cherylrichard3059 28日前

Like Prof Richard Wolff said, private universities don't pay taxes and they get enormous subsidies, also their grants effectively come from the government. So they are public-private instiutions funded largely by taxpayers so they should be accountable to taxpayers.
@steelguitarunionhall 1ヶ月前

She is 100% right and Harvard should be ashamed.
@michaelbodine9240 1ヶ月前

Down with ALL elitism!
@GinaZambonino 21日前

Stop our tax payer money from funding Harvard!,
@floukadz5376 21日前

How can they deny students from graduating? This is not charity, students pay a lot of money to attend Harvard University and in return they are denied their diplomas after studying for 2/3 years... 😳 Is it legal to do that in the US? They should be sued, it's outrageous!
@kelvinwaves 1ヶ月前

Harvard is NOTHING without their students
@bendyrland7213 1ヶ月前

Shame on Harvard. What a cruel joke.
@Torro-ew7ey 28日前

America is not America anymore
@45Grace2009 21日前

They have to realise who donates to universities in the US.
@ricecrash5225 1ヶ月前

I am a 50 year old Aussie man and I LOVE these students. The future is bright and those now in power should fear it.
@DrJohn-rl9zg 1ヶ月前

She has more balls than all of the faculty behind her. (Edit) Consider this: three of the five in the majority SCOTUS decision, Citizens United, v SEC were Harvard law grads. This decision was an interpretation of the 1st amendment that basically gave more power for freedom of speech to wealthy individuals, institutions, etc. Yet students protesting genocide are being denied their 1st amendment rights. And because of Citizens United, AIPAC is able to earmark $100,000,000 to oppose Democrats who are not supportive enough of Israel. I won't even get into the neoliberalism of universities and the control of universities by donors. Nor will I address academic incest or excellent sheep. I have great respect for this woman. But some comments seem more concerned with "prestige" or choice of turn-of-phrase than with freedom of the individual or the 36,000 Palestinians murdered.
@miriamschiro8585 21日前

“Our expression of solidarity became punishable” THAT PART was done over and over and over again to many students with unnecessary violence against them all over America. They should all sue for that.
@jagwa95 21日前

Don’t go to this university stand for human rights