A faculty commencement speaker at the University of Michigan used his spot to slam Israel. The president of the university said that those remarks deviate from the remarks submitted in advance:
I spoke about this on the Laura Ingraham show tonight:
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Ingraham:It is that time of year again, the Carousel of commencement speakers on Saturday at the University of Michigan. Well, it might’ve been the worst of the worst history Professor Derek Peterson celebrated the graduates, or was it the pro Hamas crowdVideo played:Sing for the pro Palestinians student activists who have over these past two years opened our hearts to the injustice and inhumanity of Israel’s war in GazaIngraham: Here to react. William Jacobson, Cornell Law Professor, professor, great to see you tonight. The University of Michigan president ended up apologizing for the faculty member’s comment, saying that he deviated from the remarks he shared before the ceremony. That’s, does that ever get conservatives off when they say something that offends people?WAJ:No. In fact, if you’re conservative on a campus, if you’re lucky enough to be one of the few conservatives who gets hired on a campus, then no, nothing is forgiven. And that’s really the problem here.What this professor did was a hijacking. He deviated from his remarks. He was brought there for particular purpose. He apparently got his remarks either approved or ran them by people, and then he hijacked the ceremony.Unfortunately, this is happening throughout academia. Academia has been hijacked by radicals, hijacked by anti-Israel radicals, hijacked by anti-American radicals. And they may not be the majority, but they’re in positions of power.This is the outgoing faculty chair of the faculty Senate. And so this is an important person. And he used his three minutes of fame, and I did watch his whole speech, he used his three minutes of fame to slam Israel.
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