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

More than a thousand Harvard students walked out of their commencement ceremony yesterday in support of 13 undergraduates who were barred from graduating after they participated in the Gaza solidarity encampment in Harvard Yard. Transcript / Source:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/24/harvard_gaza_protests
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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.
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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.
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“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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The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement works to end international support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians and pressures Israel to comply with international law.
https://bdsmovement.net/