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MIT class president condemns Israel during graduation speech

MIT class president condemns Israel during graduation speech

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MIT class president condemns Israel during graduation speech

Did you do anything in your younger days you are now embarrassed by?

AFN spoke to one man who condemned American youth, who are supporting terrorist groups like Hamas, and he also speculated how they may reflect on their action’s years from now.

Reports in recent weeks of graduating college and university students show that they have turned their graduation speeches into pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel rants.

One example was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where Megha Vemuri, the 2025 class president, slammed Israel.

"We are watching Israel try to wipe Palestine off the face of the Earth. And it is a shame that MIT is a part of it," Vemuri states.

Vemuri mislead the commencement organizers regarding the content of her speech, which lead to her not being allowed to attend the degree ceremony the next day.

Zachary Marschall Ph.D. is Editor in Chief of Campus Reform.

Marschall, Zachary (Campus Reform) Marschall

"I think it's not easy for people to talk about, but the truth about what's going on is that these students, who are sheep following the agitators on campus and engaging in antisemitic rhetoric and activism, are really lost individuals who gravitate for something else and someone else to give them purpose."

He said students have found that in this antisemitic activism and pro-Hamas activism over the last 18 months.

"There's nothing wrong with criticizing Israel in the way that you're allowed to criticize any other country in the world,” Marshall explains. “But I would take them more seriously as people if I believe that they could even locate the West Bank on a map, or if they spent any time being outraged by the murders against Hindus in India or the murders against Christians in Africa that we saw this year. They cherry pick Israel because it is the preferred punching bag for academics.”

Marschall said they don't really care about Palestinians—they care about feeling self-righteous.

"They care about feeling needed by the global revolutionary movement, and that's all that says. This class president is an empty vessel of a human, and that is why she's used this speech the way she did,” Marschall states.

Are they capable of embarrassment?

Might these students might be embarrassed years from now at how they are behaving presently?

"I don't think people who are truly ignorant are capable of being embarrassed because it never occurs to them that they're wrong and that they don't already know the whole picture,” Marschall says.

Marshall proposes that some of the blame for this antisemitic upswing in colleges is tied with the lowering of standards, huge gaps in academic proficiency, and learning loss.

“That absence of academic rigor and that feeling of ‘I have a lot to learn’ is completely gone from these students; that is why they feel emboldened because there's nothing holding them back,” Marschall says.


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