Originally published at: HATE ON CAMPUS: NYU Commencement Speaker Slams ‘Fascist’ Trump, Demands Boycott Against Israel | Sean Hannity
A graduation speaker at New York University launched into an anti-Trump tirade last week; calling the President a “fascist” and demanding a boycott against the “apartheid state” of Israel.
“Speaking at the convocation for the University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Steven William Thrasher, an NYU alum and professor at Northwestern, praised the graduates for their resistance against the current administration,” reports Fox News.
“Many of us have been together at Occupy Wall Street, and at Black Lives Matter protests, and at marches against that fascist in the White House that would not allow 56 different countries to cross borders and be together in a setting like this,” Thrasher told the cheering crowd.
Bigotry and hate against Israel at NYU graduation ceremony!Commencement speaker Steven William Thrasher endorses the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in his speech on May 20, 2019.Video: Stop Antisemitism
Posted by StandWithUs on Wednesday, May 22, 2019
“I am so proud, so proud, of NYU’s chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voices for Peace,” he said, “for supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against the apartheid state government in Israel.”
“We must stand together to vanquish racism, and Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism, and injustice, and attacks on women, and attacks on abortion rights in Tel Aviv, in Shanghai, in Abu Dhabi, in New York City, in Atlanta, in Washington, in Los Angeles, in San Francisco and everywhere in the world,” he shouted. “Am I right?”
“I found it quite objectionable that the student speaker chose to make use of the Graduate School of Arts and Science doctoral graduation to express his personal viewpoints on BDS and related matters, language he excluded from the version of the speech he had submitted before the ceremony. We are sorry that the audience had to experience these inappropriate remarks. A graduation should be a shared, inclusive event; the speaker’s words — one-sided and tendentious — indefensibly made some in the audience feel unwelcome and excluded,” said NYU President Andrew Hamilton.
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