The US’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization has condemned the University of Southern California’s decision to prohibit the graduating class’ valedictorian from speaking at May’s commencement ceremony after she posted messages of support for Palestine on a social media account. In a message to the USC community, provost Andrew Guzman wrote that the Los Angeles university took the unprecedented step of canceling Asna Tabassum’s planned speech because an “alarming tenor” over reactions to her selection as valedictorian – along with “the intensity of feelings” surrounding Israel’s ongoing military strikes in Gaza – had created “substantial risks relating to...
Menu
Menu
Monitoring Antisemitism & Jewish Security Intel
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
