USC Cancels Main Commencement After Numerous Anti-Israel Protests
Crazy idea. How about you keep the students safe and punish those who break the law and school rules?
The University of Southern California canceled the main May commencement after it canceled the speech by the valedictorian who expressed eliminating Israel.
USC explained it had to take the steps due to new safety measures:
With the new safety measures in place this year, the time needed to process the large number of guests coming to campus will increase substantially. As a result, we will not be able to host the main stage ceremony that traditionally brings 65,000 students, families, and friends to our campus all at the same time and during a short window from 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m.
We understand that this is disappointing; however, we are adding many new activities and celebrations to make this commencement academically meaningful, memorable, and uniquely USC, including places to gather with family, friends, faculty, and staff, the celebratory releasing of the doves, and performances by the Trojan Marching Band.
It all started when people exposed valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s anti-Israel social media posts.
These weren’t critical of Israel. The posts called for the elimination of the Jewish state:
A Muslim University of Southern California (USC) valedictorian who was barred from giving a graduation speech said on Tuesday she is “not apologetic” for the anti-Israel views she expressed online, including calls to abolish the Jewish state.
USC student Asna Tabassum told CNN she’s not sorry about promoting “unequivocal and unconditional right to life for all people, including Palestinians,” which she claimed was the point of her anti-Israel social media posts that resulted in the school canceling her speech.
“The abolishment of the state of Israel, I‘d like to clarify, is the abolishment of an apartheid system,” Tabassum said. “It inherently is a system that subjugates Palestinians as dehumanized. And it subjugates Palestinian life as not worth the same as other human life.”
USC said it didn’t cancel Tabassum’s speech because of her views but for her and everyone’s safety:
“After careful consideration, we have decided that our student valedictorian will not deliver a speech at commencement. While this is disappointing, tradition must give way to safety,” Andrew Guzman, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, wrote in the statement.
Guzman stated that the decision was necessary in order to maintain the school and its students’ safety.
“To be clear: this decision has nothing to do with freedom of speech. There is no free-speech entitlement to speak at a commencement. The issue here is how best to maintain campus security and safety, period,” Guzman wrote.
Well, the rabid mobs went after USC with encampments and protests.
Chaotic scene at #USC right now as officers with the department of public safety went into Gaza solidarity camp and took down tents, signs. Protesters faced off with officers and some tents have returned @ABC7 pic.twitter.com/doAxpdftfH
— Josh Haskell (@abc7JoshHaskell) April 24, 2024
HAPPENING NOW: Mass chaos breaks out at college campuses across the United States as pro-Palestine protests intensify.
Columbia, Harvard, USC, University of Texas at Austin and others are getting swarmed by protesters.
Police at USC are taking out their batons as the… pic.twitter.com/D35wVTCiZ8
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 24, 2024
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So the dumb students shoot themselves in the foot, and now no one get a commencement. Well done morons!
I once listened to a commencement speaker back in 2007 at the University of Connecticut go on an Anti-Israel and anti-American rant and people in the audience, mostly parents booing him, and screaming at him to “shut up” to the point he had to leave the stage. He actually said that we deserved 9/11 because of our support for Israel. I was one of those people booing and yelling, of course, and proudly at that. However, I bet today people would clap for him instead.
“USC said it didn’t cancel Tabassum’s speech because of her views but for her and everyone’s safety”
News flash USC – Tabassum’s ‘views’ were what caused the safety issue in the first place. But you knew that when you selected her valedictorian didn’t you? (nudge nudge, wink wink).
I didn’t think valedictorians were “selected,” I thought it was whoever had the highest GPA.
Wrong message
I was surprised in Austin yesterday when UT had APD come in and arrest a bunch of anti-Semite protesters who were disrupting the campus.
“The group that led this protest stated it was going to violate Institutional Rules. Our rules matter, and they will be enforced. Our University will not be occupied,” said the UT President.
In related news, a sounder of pigs was seen flying over the UT Tower.
I think that we are going to start seeing Pogroms in all Leftist polities.
Subotai Bahadur
Those must be Hillary fans, recapitulating her commencement speech shenanigans.
Hijacking an event for one purpose to serve another is “activist” SOP these days. I’m so old I remember when protesters organized their own things, and actively ran out people who weren’t on board with their program.
Conveniently, the oppression rubric that lets you hijack to get your way, when nobody buys your take it’s because of the oppression, not because you’re incompetent, inarticulate, off-putting, promoting a bad notion.
Lovely hack. You get to take people’s stuff, and it’s never on you when your stuff doesn’t work.
instead of protecting the rights of the good people
they let LEFTY WIN AGAIN
BY SHUTTING DOWN THE PRO AMERICANS
Muzzie extremists calling to tear down the statue of Tommy Trojan?
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