Harvard Commencement Speakers: Despite Crackdown, “Students Will Keep Speaking Up” for Palestine

Harvard Honors Student Who Assaulted Israeli Classmate

Harvard Honors took on a controversial meaning during the 2025 Divinity School commencement when graduate Zehra Imam used her faculty-approved platform to praise Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, a fellow student charged with assaulting an Israeli classmate during a pro-Palestinian protest. Speaking draped in a keffiyeh and holding a Palestinian flag, Imam declared, “Class of 2025, Palestine is waiting for us to arrive,” to cheers from the audience. Tettey-T…

Harvard Commencement Speakers: Despite Crackdown, “Students Will Keep Speaking Up” for Palestine

It’s graduation season in the United States, and many brave students are taking the opportunity to demonstrate support for Palestinian rights despite an ongoing campus crackdown on pro-Palestine speech. We play excerpts from commencement and graduation addresses at MIT and Harvard and are joined by a student who spoke at Harvard Divinity School’s graduation ceremony. Zehra Imam, a Muslim associate chaplain at MIT, recounts the collaborative, inte

Harvard commencement speaker lauds classmate who assaulted Israeli student—to whoops and cheers from the crowd

“Staff had no prior knowledge of the revised and given speech,” a Harvard spokesman said. By Jessica Costescu and Jessica Schwalb, The Washington Free Beacon A Harvard Divinity School graduate selected by faculty members to speak at the school’s commencement ceremony used her address to praise Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, a classmate who faced criminal charges for assaulting an Israeli classmate. “Class of 2025, Palestine is waiting for us to arrive,” t…

Full speech | Indian-American Harvard student Shruthi Kumar at convocation

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