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Duke University students walk out on Jerry Seinfeld’s commencement speech, chant 'free Palestine'
Fox News ^ | 5/12/24 | Stephen Sorace

Posted on 05/12/2024 10:40:51 AM PDT by Libloather

Dozens of students at Duke University walked out on legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s commencement speech on Sunday, with some chanting "free Palestine," according to videos of the ceremony posted on social media.

The student protesters staged the walkout just as Seinfeld, who is Jewish and a vocal supporter of Israel, was introduced, according to the videos.

Some students carried Palestinian flags as they left the stadium. Other graduates and guests chanted "Jerry! Jerry!" as the comedian took the stage to receive an honorary degree.

Seinfeld delivered his speech without major interruptions, Reuters reported.

The "Seinfeld" star opened his speech with some jokes before telling graduates his "three real keys to life," which are work hard, pay attention and fall in love, according to WRAL-TV.

"Whatever you're doing, I don't care if it's your job, your hobby, a relationship, getting a reservation at M Sushi," the comedian said. "Make an effort. Just pure, stupid, no-real-idea-what-I'm-doing-here effort. Effort always yields a positive value, even if the outcome of the effort is absolute failure of the desired result. This is a rule of life. Just swing the bat and pray is not a bad approach to a lot of things."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; Local News
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; domesticenemies; duke; dukeuniversity; education; gaza; hamas; hitleryouth; israel; jerryseinfeld; northcarolina; palestine; seinfeld; sharialaw; speech; terrorists; universities; waronterror
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To: Libloather

Less all the divisive ‘free Pail-is-stained’ crap I’m kinda liking the advice about living from Jerry Seinfeld.


21 posted on 05/12/2024 11:13:48 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Cold_Red_Steel

Rebels without a clue.


22 posted on 05/12/2024 11:14:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EinNYC

Dozens get their names and put them on the do not hire list


23 posted on 05/12/2024 11:23:52 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: jocon307

I made a gesture to my family at a Mass when the substitute priest told us that God didn’t care about the 6th Commandment (adultery). We all filed out together and went to the 5PM inPhenix City.

my girlfriend and I alsowalked out of “The Fugutive” when we heard one profanity too many.


24 posted on 05/12/2024 11:32:17 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: mass55th
Dumb asses, ruin their own graduation for themselves.

Well, no. They had fun doing this. It was the highlight for them. In their own minds, this was a heroic, revolutionary act. One they'll reminisce about for decades to come.

"You know, it back about, oh ... the year was '24. That was the year I struck a major blow against racism. Let me tell you young 'uns about way back when I was set to graduate Duke University...

25 posted on 05/12/2024 11:41:33 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: John S Mosby
Was that the incident in which the Communist Party sent agitators and dared the Klan to show up. The Klan accepted the dare. There was a shootout. The Klan killed some Communists. The jury found they'd acted in self-defense.

That was in the late 1970s or 1980s? It was very big news at the time.

26 posted on 05/12/2024 11:45:29 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97
"They had fun doing this."

Until it comes back to bite them in the arse, and it will eventually, one way or another.

27 posted on 05/12/2024 12:02:41 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Angelino97
1979. I grew up just up the road from Greensboro so the shootout and its aftermath made the news every so often. The local libs have tried to make it out to be more than it really was, which was two groups of people hating each other enough to open fire. They even had a "truth and reconciliation" thing like what happened in South Africa after apartheid.

It was two gangs of losers who were out to kill each other. And that's it.

28 posted on 05/12/2024 12:16:23 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (America needs deliberalization like Germany needed denazification.)
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To: Libloather

What? was it like 3 dozens?


29 posted on 05/12/2024 12:44:31 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: Libloather

No after Commencement Party Soup for you!


30 posted on 05/12/2024 1:31:07 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: Libloather

He should return his honorary degree and demand that Duke clean ups it act and start suspending and rejecting anti-Semitic students for their racist and violent views. People who support terrorism and jew hatred do not deserve degrees. What they deserve is deportation to that squatter territory referred to as the GAZA strip.

If you truly support Palestinian squatter’s and Hamas? Then go live with them.


31 posted on 05/12/2024 1:31:16 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Libloather

I can’t seem to find the nation called Palestine on the map of the Middle east


32 posted on 05/12/2024 1:34:40 PM PDT by RaginRak
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To: Angelino97

Wilmington, North Carolina is where it happened.


33 posted on 05/12/2024 1:39:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Angelino97

The Wilmington Ten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Ten


34 posted on 05/12/2024 1:41:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: married21

I hear you! Terrible movie:


35 posted on 05/12/2024 1:42:28 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Dr. Sivana

That’s incredible a priest would say that! My mom wanted to walkout of Mass a couple of times (nothing like your experience!) but I don’t think she actually did.

Once was when the priest suggested you take a homeless person into your home, and if btw the homeless person didn’t like smoking you should smoke outside to accommodate them. And this was decades before woke!


36 posted on 05/12/2024 1:46:54 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: John S Mosby

Note: Cone Mills already had a union.


37 posted on 05/12/2024 1:47:58 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Angelino97

1979 at Morningside Homes in Greensboro I believe. The person that brought the Klan and prevented them from leaving was an FBI informant.


38 posted on 05/12/2024 1:50:43 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Leaning Right

He converted for the jokes.


39 posted on 05/12/2024 1:56:30 PM PDT by jean michael
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To: jean michael
He converted for the jokes.

Then he became a chemistry teacher.

40 posted on 05/12/2024 1:58:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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