Wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh on top of her robe, MIT class president Megha Vemuri centered her commencement address on attacks against Israel, saying that Israel was trying to “wipe Palestine off the face of the earth” and that MIT was complicit in Israel’s genocidal goals.

Pro-Israel and Jewish student activist Shabbos Kestenbaum recently posted a video of his 2024 Harvard commencement ceremony in which speaker after speaker discussed the war in Gaza and Palestine. The scenes in the video show a group of graduates in academic regalia, some holding signs and chanting.

The background features the Harvard Divinity School building. A student read from If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer, a Palestinian writer, poet, translator, university professor, and activist from Gaza. Another student fe

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