00:00It's graduation season in America, but in 2025, convocation stages once again became political
00:10battlegrounds. From MIT to Colombia, the Israel-Hamas conflict echoed through mortar boards and
00:16microphones. I cannot celebrate my own graduation without a heavy heart.
00:30Knowing how many students in Palestine have been forced to stop their studies, expelled
00:34from their homes, and killed for simply remaining in the country of their ancestors. I am ashamed
00:40to know my tuition is being used to fund this genocide.
00:56Right now, while we prepare to graduate and move forward with our lives, there are no
01:00universities left in Gaza. We are watching Israel try to wipe Palestine off the face of the earth,
01:05and it is a shame that MIT is a part of it.
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