This is typical of American academia today. Our nation’s colleges and universities are radioactive wastelands of Leftist hatred and propaganda.
The Times of Israel cannot decide whether her name is spelled Mohammad or Mohammed. I don’t know which is correct.
“NYC’s public law school releases video of ‘antisemitic’ commencement speech,” by Luke Tress, Times of Israel, May 27, 2023:
NEW YORK — New York City’s public law school on Thursday released a video of a commencement ceremony held earlier this month, including a speech the city college system’s Jewish allies decried as discriminatory.
The speaker accused Israel of “indiscriminate” murder, encouraging “lynch mobs” and lauded resistance to “Zionism around the world.”
The City University of New York (CUNY) Law School had hidden the video after coming under criticism for the ceremony.
The speech marked the second consecutive year that the law school’s commencement speaker dedicated much of their address to anti-Israel rhetoric, and comes amid a years-long running battle over alleged widespread antisemitism in the city college system.
Much of the dispute centers around when anti-Zionism crosses into antisemitism, and is part of a larger debate on US college campuses and in progressive circles….
The law school’s commencement ceremony on May 12 featured anti-Israel activist Fatima Mohammed [sic] as its keynote speaker. The school’s commencement speaker is elected by the student body.
In her speech, Mohammad [sic] repeatedly lashed Israel, linking the Jewish state to white supremacy, oppression, colonialism and violence.
“This is the law school that passed and endorsed BDS on a student and faculty level, recognizing that absent a critical imperialism settler colonialism lens, our work and the school’s mission statement is void of value as Israel continues to indiscriminately rain bullets and bombs on worshipers, murdering the old, the young, attacking the funerals and graveyards as it encourages lynch mobs,” she said.
“We are the student body and faculty that fought back when the investor-focused administration attempted to cross the BDS picket line, saying loud and clear that Palestine can no longer be the exception to our pursuit of justice, that our morality will not be purchased by investors,” she said.
Mohammad [sic] also said that CUNY “continues to train IDF soldiers” to carry out “violence globally,” blaming the school system for being “committed to its donors, not to its students.”
She repeatedly linked racism against Black Americans to Israel, and said Jewish New York Senator Chuck Schumer had “dignified” the killing of Jordan Neely, a Black man, on a New York City subway.
“May we rejoice in the corners of our New York City bedroom apartments and dining tables, may it be fuel for the fight against capitalism, racism, imperialism, and Zionism around the world,” she said in closing.
Mohammed [sic] is a member of CUNY Law’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, which has spearheaded BDS and other anti-Israel initiatives on campus.
During the commencement ceremony, the law school graduates also heckled New York City Mayor Eric Adams at the mention of his career on the police force, and turned their backs to Adams while he spoke to them.
The ceremony was closed to the press, and afterward, CUNY Law made the video non-public. CUNY’s central administration and CUNY Law did not respond to requests to make the video public earlier this month.
The law school made the video available online on Thursday, along with other past commencement events. Both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups had pressured the school to release the video….
Bexarkat says
This is Biden’s anti-Semitism’s approach.
maria says
yes he and all the demonRats who are now dhimmis ruled by muslims
Wellington says
Most of the entire educational establishment in America is just fine with all the rot of Leftism. This is ominous because if the education of new generations of any society is perverted, which it surely has been in America (and elsewhere in the West), then such a society is in deep trouble.
America right now is in deep trouble. No doubt. This is not just due to the Leftist corruption of education but to the Leftist corruption of so many other “entities,” including the media, Big Tech, Big Business (including sports franchises and, yes, even breweries)—and, extra troubling, the Democratic Party.
Oh yeah, big trouble we’re in. Much more to come. Verdict on America and the West still out but not looking good. And Muzzies and the non-Muzzie tyrants of the world like Putin and Xi are relishing all of this. You bet they are.
John Smith says
Yes Wellington we’re in big trouble, and this is only the beginning the worse is yet to come. I often think to myself what the hell is going on in their leftarded brains (if they’ve got any) they just don’t see it, they just don’t get it. They believe themselves to be the most virtues, the most righteous of people, but they are anything but. Unbeknown to them they have chosen the side of evil. I knew we were in big trouble the day this fraudulent Biden administration took power. I see nothing but extremely dark days ahead of us. So I’ve made it my duty to inform as many as I can about islam, and the unholy alliance they have with the left.
PRCS says
“Most of the entire educational establishment in America is just fine with all the rot of Leftism.”
Leftists are promoting a stridently conservative ideology: Islam.
While each teaches world domination, it is a religious obligation for Muslims.
DHZ says
A short, contemporary commencement speech at an expensive private college:
“Commence hating Jews and praying for their extermination. Call everybody who disagrees with you a racist or a something o’ phobe. Oh, and respect trans people.”
Westman says
This speech sounds amazingly like Hillary Clinton’s graduation speech when she was a student graduation speaker, minus the rhetoric about Jews and Palestinians.
tgusa says
The little weasel also attacked whites. Of course she did. We all know they hate the Jews but in the USA who they really fear are white males. And they should. It is a sign of fear and respect for what white males are capable of when the shtf. The left will attack us from the safety of a podium but you wont see them coming in to our areas and doing anything like that. Every time the left does that they just make white males angrier and more determined but they are just too clueless to understand that.
They should have kept their mouths shut but now the genie is out of the bottle and there’s no going back. When the die has been cast, as is said in a movie, I’m coming and I’m bringing hell with me. The diverse dysfunctional loose coalition of opposing ideologies on the left have set into motion something that they have no idea where it will lead. God help them, but that is not going to happen.
somehistory says
So true. God does not help the evil ones.
tgusa says
I will go out on a limb and wager that the tune, The Devil Went Down to Georgia, is not part of their commencement ceremonies.
somehistory says
“Put the banjo down. Step away from the banjo.”
And the fiddle.
Anything with which they have anything to do, is suspect.
tgusa says
One would have thought that the events of 9-11 in NYC would have taught the citizens there a lesson. But they just keep going allowing members of the same cult that initiated 9-11 to fester and grow among them. It is like the people of NYC are having a hold my beer moment. This is why I pay less and less attention to what happened to them on that day. They dont, why should I?
somehistory says
The ” commencement ceremony” was all about “commencing to call for discrimination and violence.”
She lied about Israel mistreating Blacks, and to show how the student body is against the mistreatment of Blacks, they turned their backs on the Black mayor.
Law schools churning out liars and those who disobey the law. She’ll probably get a job with the local chapter of liars and terror supporters. She probably has their number on speed dial. If not, she soon will and the contact will have the infamous c.a.i.r. label.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“Law schools churning out liars and those who disobey the law.”
Yes.
The future of the legal profession is not looking good…
somehistory says
thank you, James
gravenimage says
CUNY Law School features hijab-wearing Jew-hater as its commencement speaker
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Sick stuff, but this does not surprise.
She has also said that US law is a manifestation of white supremacy which suppresses people all over the world, and that “we” only went to CUNY to learn how to protect their communities from US laws which are “violence”, and that the American “empire” is all about destruction and violence, and that US law was developed in order to intimidate, bully, and censor those who “resist”. Of course, if any of this were actually true, she would not be allowed to speak, let alone serve as commencement speaker.
“Commencement speaker slams CUNY Law for supporting ‘fascist’ NYPD, oppressive systems”
https://nypost.com/2023/05/29/cuny-law-speaker-slams-school-for-supporting-fascist-nypd/
OLD GUY says
I wonder how much money from Saudi Arabia and Qatar are in CUNY’S endowment fund? Funny how money can change the truth and history.
PRCS says
I didn’t see even one television news report about this that noted/addressed the elephant in the room:
As a Muslim, her religion teaches hatred of ALL other religions–and none. Judaism simply receives more emphatic hatred.
It is also a supremacist theocracy which–to Muslims–reigns supreme over all other man-made laws (Islam being a man-made religion, too–of course). That given, the only reason for her to become a lawyer is to infuse Islamic law into U.S. law.