In the Trump United States, repression of those solidaritying with Palestine is increasing. This time highly left-wing University of fresh York (NYU), utilizing the silent support of the presidential administration, suspended his diploma A student named Logan Rozos after he condemned the genocide in the Gaza Strip and the United States in his speech.
The university stopped issuing a diploma to a student criticizing judaic genocide. Rozos, a postgraduate of Gallatin School of Individual Studies at fresh York University, condemned genocide in his speech Rozos "politically and militarily supported by the United States, paid from our taxes and broadcast live on our phones for the past 18 months". He continued: – I do not want to talk only on my behalf today, but on behalf of all people of conscience who feel the moral harm caused by this crime."
Razos's speeches met with a general applause of students. NYU rapidly reacted by issuing a message condemning Rozosa, accusing him of violating university rules and announcing that he would halt his graduation until disciplinary action was taken. Moreover, the University removed Rozos' student profile from its website.
The incidental is taking place during the expanding repression of Trump's pro-Palestinian government against freedom of speech and pro-Palestinian activism at American universities. NYU, like many another public institutions, has adopted a controversial definition of anti-Semitism according to the global Alliance for Holocaust Memory (IHRA), which besides calls anti-Semitism besides criticism of Zionism and Israeli politics. Critics inform that these funds are utilized as weapons to silence the voices of opposition to genocide by Jews.
The speech by Rozosa and the NYU reaction form part of a pattern of repression at the university. Over the past year, NYU administrators have called the police to disperse peaceful protests and arrested dozens of students and lecturers opposing the brutal pacification of the ghetto in Gaza. The University has besides updated its guidelines on conduct to classify phrases specified as "Zionist" as discriminatory, clearly blurring the discrimination between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
In December 2024, NYU considered 2 average professors, Andrew Ross and Sonya Posmentier, to be "person non grata" after joining the business strike, demanding that the university's investment be withdrawn from companies profiting from Israel's war crimes in the Gaza Strip. A fewer months later, NYU cancelled a lecture by erstwhile president of doctors without Borders, Dr. Joanne Liu, recognising her slides on civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip as possibly "anti-Semitic".
Interestingly, in the conflict over the assessment of Israel's actions, there are 2 utmost lines of the left, 1 of which benefits from theoretically right-wing support and, in fact, fiercely prosynoistic, Trump administration.
