Ashamed to say I graduated this university where 25% of the student population is Jewish, yet an unruly mob of pro-Hamas protesters was allowed to drown out the Chancellor’s 2024 Commencement Ceremony speech on Monday. Take note, employers, don’t hire any of these Marxist, anti-Semitic troublemakers.
Gateway Pundit (h/t Nita) Pro-Hamas Washington University graduates disrupted commencement speech by Chancellor Andrew Martin on Monday, ruining the experience for their fellow graduates.
The far-left protesters stood up and started screaming and chanting, “Shut it down!” during Chancellor Martin’s talk.
Their fellow students tried desperately to ignore the young Marxists.
@wustl Washington University of St. Louis entitled hamas lovers are screaming. Their faces are here for all future employers to see. I’m just trying to help a bit. 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/Iqf2HzuOW7
— Yanki Yankovich (@YankiYankovich) May 14, 2024
SLPR Many of Washington University’s newest graduates at their commencement ceremony Monday expressed solidarity with Palestinians in the war zone of Gaza as dozens of students, alumni and supporters gathered outside campus to protest the university’s continuing investments in Boeing, which supplies the Israeli military with weapons.
More than an hour before the 9 a.m. graduation ceremony began, protesters arrived near Lindell and Skinker boulevards to press their case that Wash U should disclose its investments and withdraw those in companies that provide weapons to Israel.
They’re also calling an end to the latest war in Gaza, where Israeli bombardments have killed thousands. Israel has waged the campaign since an Oct. 7 attack by Hamas fighters.
“We are demanding that Wash U divest from Boeing and other military-industrial corporations that are supporting Israeli apartheid and the genocide in Palestine,” said Grace Iverson, who graduated from the university in 2020. “And we are continuing to keep up the pressure because Wash U has shown that they are clearly not interested in the community and in divesting. But we will not stop until they move to divest.”
As the university prepared to start its ceremony, people outside the campus held signs calling for a “permanent global ceasefire.” Another poster was painted to resemble a Palestinian flag, with “Queer Jews for Palestine” written on it.
Members of the “Ceasefire Choir” began singing “From Ferguson to Palestine, occupation is a crime!” outside the campus. Clayton police later arrived to tell protesters to stop using megaphones and speakers, which officers said are against city ordinances — and threatened to arrest those who continue doing so. They briefly put a woman in handcuffs after she honked her van’s horn in support of the protests. Police then released her.
Some students say Wash U needs to pay better attention to student voices. Students are particularly outraged at the school’s response to two April pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus, where police made more than 100 arrests.
They’re calling for Wash U to drop charges and disciplinary cases against students, faculty and staff.
In a statement Friday, Wash U spokeswoman Flory said the tone of this protest was not peaceful and included “aggressive chanting.”
“They were abhorrently violent,” said Kevin McCarthy, who is graduating with a degree in English. “I was there the Saturday that they arrested my friends. And they acted with complete impunity. They did it all with a smile on their face, which is what was most jarring to me.
I could see school administrators I saw and interacted with on campus in different contexts smiling as they told the police to charge the protesters and violently assault them.
“It shows that the university is completely tied into the military-industrial complex,” said McCarthy, 22. “They are fully focused on their bottom line of the endowment, and they do not care about their students one bit.”
“We’re going to be out here until Gaza is free — until this genocide stops happening. I know that me and my fellow classmates have not lost their appetite to protest the apartheid state of Israel. And we have not lost our appetite for justice and decolonizing the world.”
RIGHT NOW: Pro-Palestine #protests on Washington University’s campus during #graduation. Protesters started as early as 7:30AM, blocking intersections and chanting. Protesters hold signs over the fence of Francis Olympic Field as the band plays during commencement.@ksdknews pic.twitter.com/bWhNHXhqjY
— Sydney Stallworth (@SydneyKSDK) May 13, 2024
The idea of queers and feminists for palestine is straight out of a Monty Python Skit.
Sure is!
On GBNEWS, Thursday 16th May, Patrick Christys went to Cambridge University, where the same thing is happening.
Suella Braverman was with him, they wanted to talk to the protesters, the result was unbelievable.
Later in the show he interviewed a Marxists organiser about what they actually wanted, Suella tore her off a strip.
I thoroughly recommend watching the whole show on YouTube.
Patrick Christy’s Tonight, Thursday 16th May.
Tonight’s show is looking good too, worth a watch when it’s posted.
It’s already been on about the Palestinian Football Association wanting Israel kicked out of football (soccer).
Can you post the link to that?
Here’s the “interaction” with the students.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rTgCPEH5RwY
Thanks.
And here’s the interview with the Marxist in the studio.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pThJBLscn1Y
Thanks.
Silly children have no clue they are destroying the foundation of their planed future and our country … move the voting age requirement to 25 years of age , let them have a taste of the real world of employment and taxes , away from mommy’s an daddies basement out on their own in this devil take the hind most real world before they are allowed to have a say .
Great idea.