US EditionMIT bans class president who gave pro-Palestine speech from commencement
- Megha Vemuri, the president of MIT’s class of 2025, was prohibited from participating in her graduation ceremony on Friday following a speech she gave the previous day at the OneMIT Commencement in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she spoke out against the war in Gaza.
- The university's leadership took this action citing disruption and repeated misleading of organizers, while Vemuri says no specific policy was broken and views MIT's support of free speech as hypocritical.
- At the ceremony, Vemuri wore a keffiyeh symbolizing Palestinian solidarity, praised peers protesting Gaza's war, criticized MIT's ties to Israel, and declared the institution complicit in genocide.
- Vemuri told CNN she is willing to face increased challenges if it supports the Palestinian cause and said she can manage both praise and criticism in order to raise awareness for it.
- The ban sparked nationwide media attention, with ardent support and criticism; CAIR condemned MIT's decision, urging respect for academic freedom and students' voices against genocide and for Palestinian humanity.
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MIT class president banned from graduation over pro-Palestinian remarks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology valedictorian Megha Vemuri was banned from attending her graduation ceremony for statements she made supporting Palestinian rights and denouncing the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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