1,000 Harvard Students Walk Out of Commencement to Support 13 Seniors Barred from Graduation over Gaza

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Students Walk Out of Harvard Commencement After 13 Barred from Graduation over Gaza
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More than a thousand Harvard students walked out of their commencement ceremony yesterday to support 13 undergraduates who were barred from graduating after they participated in the Gaza solidarity encampment in Harvard Yard.

Asmer Safi, one of the 13 pro-Palestinian student protesters barred from graduating, says that while his future has been thrown into uncertainty while he is on probation, he has no regrets about standing up for Palestinian rights.

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Unlike some paying lip service about "red lines", my promises are real. My red line is genocide.

You can vote for your varying levels of evil, I will not vote for genocide.

Personally I think it's probably best for Americans to vote Biden, since that will give the left some more time to organize, but I get that it's just too much for some to swallow. I'm just glad I have actual options in my country.

It’s America, you don’t get the choice to vote against genocide.

Just like you don’t get the choice to vote against capitalism.

Democracy.

It’s America, you don’t get the choice to vote against genocide

If yout live in a swing state, maybe. Those of us in solid states can vote however we like as our votes don't matter anyway

Great system we have