On May 14, Logan Rozos, a student at New York University (NYU), gave a brief but powerful speech during the graduation ceremony of Gallatin, a liberal arts school within NYU. In his remarks (transcribed by World-Outlook from the video of Rozos’ speech, and published in this post), the student condemned the U.S.-backed Israeli war on the Palestinian people in Gaza. NYU immediately announced it is withholding the student’s diploma as it pursues disciplinary actions against him, in the latest flashpoint between free speech principles and punishment for pro-Palestinian advocacy on U.S. college campuses.
I don’t understand why there’s any crackdown on any of this. Not liking a war is kinda traditional around here. Or was.
Maybe that’s it. Maybe they’re planning another unpopular war and this is the preliminary work.
Because they’re paid by AIPAC and similar organizations to pretend that hating a genocidal administration is the same as hating all Jews. This has been a couple decades long campaign to criminalize criticism of Israel.
Now I’m reading items that state this is Heritage groundwork for routing out the liberal elite, eventually. Starting with this, context just a distraction.
Maybe. As a side effect. I still think it’s likely about squelching protests that may gain momentum. Again though, context as a distraction.
A global holy war where rightwing christian conservatives simultaneously claim they have to eradicate muslims to save jews while simultaneously setting up jews up to take all the blame as a longterm skapegoat instead of the war profiteering billionaires for when it all catastrophically backfires.
History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake.
For-profit university wants to keep the money flowing in. Can’t have those pesky free thinking students speaking out if it means federal funds or private donations stop arriving.
It’s a bribe then.