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Fifth Column

About 30 students stage walkout at Duke commencement over Seinfeld speech

2024-05-13

It looks like not many agree with the vicious idiots who’ve been causing so much trouble.

[IsraelTimes] Jewish comedian, who visited Israel in solidarity following October 7, receives honorary degree at graduation event attended by some 7,000 people

Some 30 students walked out of Duke University’s commencement ceremony on Sunday while some chanted "Free Paleostine" to protest its guest speaker, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, for supporting Israel throughout the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, according to videos of the event posted on social media.

Other graduates shouted "Jerry! Jerry!" as the Jewish actor received an honorary degree, and Seinfeld delivered his speech to an audience of around 7,000 people without major interruptions.

Seinfeld opened his speech by joking that his invitation to speak at the ceremony brought the prestigious "Duke experience down a couple of notches."

Amidst a joke-filled speech, Seinfeld gave the graduates his three bits of advice for life: "Bust your ass, pay attention, and fall in love."

He then encouraged the students to use their privilege well.

"I grew up a Jewish boy from New York. That is a privilege if you want to be a comedian," he quipped.

He also seemingly referred to the protests on US college campuses when mentioning the Harvard-educated writing staff on his ’90s show, "Seinfeld."

"I’m not talking about Harvard now, I’m talking about the way it used to be," he said. "You’re never going to believe this, but Harvard used to be a great place to go to school. Now it’s Duke."

Seinfeld visited Israel and has vocally supported it since October 7 when terrorist group Hamas
Hamas

..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
invaded the country with thousands of terrorists, killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 252 others.

The walkout was the latest manifestation of protests that have roiled US campuses, as students call for universities to divest from arms suppliers and other companies profiting from the war, and amnesty for students and faculty members who have been disciplined or fired for protesting.

At the end of April, students in some universities took over and occupied buildings on campus and were eventually cleared out by police.

Some universities, like Columbia, where the first encampment was set up last month, canceled their main commencement events because of the protests. The New York university held smaller school-based graduation events instead.

While pro-Paleostinian protests were held at Duke over the last seven months, no encampment was erected on campus.

Johns Hopkins protesters pack up, but graduation demonstrations persist elsewhere

[IsraelTimes] Pro-Paleostinian protests at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have dismantled a tent encampment, joining other demonstrators in decamping the campsites as campuses empty out for summer break. In a statement Sunday, the Hopkins Justice Collective said it had agreed to take down the protest enclosure as part of a deal in which the school agreed to expedite hearings over the possibility of divestment from Israel, and to grant all protesters amnesty.

Up the seaboard in Boston, Emerson College’s graduation Sunday night was beset with repeated pro-Paleostinian protests, including chants that interrupted several speakers’ addresses, video shows. Some displayed messages for a camera situated on stage, but the livestream quickly shifted to a different view, preventing them from being seen for long. Chants during some of the speeches were difficult to decipher.

Posted by:trailing wife

#5 Publish their names and schools. Let them remain unemployable asshats

Posted by: Frank G 2024-05-13 21:04

#4 A real university would rescind their degrees and purge their existence in their records for walking out. Let them learn a real lesson.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2024-05-13 20:29

#3 The media lied to frame this as a majority of the graduates, but it was really a small number and they were jeered as they left.

Posted by: EMS Artifact 2024-05-13 16:40

#2
Maybe someone @ Duke will post the Racist student names that support genocidal agendas?

So employers, customers & clients might avoid hiring them.

Posted by: NN2N1 2024-05-13 16:24

#1 Organizer of walkout.

Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert 2024-05-13 13:31

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