USC Cancels Main Stage Graduation Ceremony In Wake Of Pro-Palestinian Protest, Dozens Of Arrests

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Her defenders have since staged demonstrations and mounted a letter writing to pressure the administration into reversing the decision. “I think it's almost ironic the amount of security that they're using for this event when we have students like Asna, who is unable to speak at her own graduation because of lack of security,” he said.

In a statement posted on their Instagram page, the USC Hillel group said some of the protesters chants were antisemitic, namely “there is only one solution, intifada revolution” and “long live the intifada.”“No student should feel unwelcome in their own campus home, and our Jewish students are telling us that these actions and this hostile rhetoric induce feelings of fear, terror and instability,” the statement added.

 

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