Posted on 05/21/2025 10:48:14 PM PDT by Libloather
Acting Columbia University President Claire Shipman on Wednesday bizarrely chose to stoke the flames by acknowledging arrested ex-grad student Mahmoud Khalil at the Ivy League school’s chaotic graduation.
Hordes of graduating students in the riled-up audience began chanting Khalil’s name and nearly booed Shipman off the stage throughout her remarks at the embattled university’s commencement.
“We firmly believe that our international students have the same rights to freedom of speech as everyone else, and they should not be targeted by the government for exercising their right,” Shipman told the crowd of nearly 37,000.
“I know many in our community are mourning the absence of our graduate, Mahmoud Khalil,” she said.
Khalil was arrested by ICE agents at an off-campus apartment owned by the university in March and whisked away to a Louisiana migrant detention facility awaiting deportation.
The Trump administration claims Khalil, who served as a spokesman for anti-Israel groups including Columbia University Apartheid Divest, engaged in activities “aligned to Hamas,” the Palestinian terror group.
Some students at the ceremony told The Post they felt Shipman’s shout-out of the former grad student — who helped organize on-campus protests where pro-Hamas literature was handed out — was inappropriate.
“‘Mourning?’ Is he dead?” a Columbia undergrad who declined to identify herself said sarcastically.
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The student who pointed out the Muslim guy isn’t dead so can’t be mourned was right. Maybe “we miss the warmth and friendship of our colleague Mahmoud Khalil”, the terror supporting agitating rabblerouser who may be on his way to the hoosegow.”
And then “here is our special surprise guest, Rep. Van Hollen.”
Those who support terrorists are terrorists, ... Claire.
That POS graduated LAST DECEMBER!
And this new president of Columbia ruined the graduation for many of the graduates there!
What the hell has happened to make them like this?
What has happened to make so many women, who should have a natural affinity for nurturing and protecting the young and the vulnerable, want to instead twist, violate and destroy them in the most vile of ways?
Part of this nation's demise has been the DEI of putting women in top leadership positions.
They are entirely too emotional to handle it in a responsible way.
Nothing that can be changed. God made us different. Just like guys can't nurture the way women can.
“We firmly believe that our international students have the same rights to freedom of speech as everyone else, [Shipman stated]”
Then you need to learn more about the law and about the Constitution.
Khalil is free to say whatever he wants - in his home country.
This is convincing evidence America’s universities are no longer of ANY value. They deserve to be be bulldozed to the ground. Their grounds can then be converted to parks where people can enjoy some free time.
The only thing now being taught in these propaganda sewers is HATRED and INTOLERANCE.
Rocco, I offer an answer :
We have shoved God, and his ‘life changing Son’, Jesus Yeshua, OUT OF OUR REPUBLIC. ‘We the people’ now trust ‘tolerance’’ homosexuality, and Trans stupidity. ONLY revival in Godliness will save America.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Wouldn’t want to be a Jew trying to get an education at Columbia and they should be ashamed of themselves. I’m sure ashamed of them.
One of these days soon some thing like this is going to occur.
And a portion of the crowd is going to rise up and kill the speaker.
People will have had enough.
Claire Shipman’s choice was nothing other than sticking it America’s eyes. She was laughably unqualified, but the Left views university presidencies not as something which requires any knowledge, wisdom or experience, but merely as cash prizes for subservient lackeys.
“We firmly believe that our international students have the same rights to freedom of speech as everyone else, and they should not be targeted by the government for exercising their right,”
Well they don’t. I would go further, that advocating violence against people because of their race, is vile. While I believe that the 1st amendment is extremely important, like the SCOTUS there has to be limits that prevent willful endangerment of others.
I am trying to think of a graduate of Columbia who really made an impact on our world. Anyone, at any time?
Bring him on back, he can be just like barry, another fake president./s
Harrrrrvoid
These colleges are ghettos.
Wait, what?
Was Columbia U’s prez born with no balls, or did he have them removed because he wanted to transition?
Barack Hussein Obama (aka Barry Soetoro)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
In my very humble opinion, worst President of the United States in History. Turned government against the people, weaponizing it as a political instrument against all political adversaries. Likely key figure in destroying long standing US international relationships to further causes by Muslims, and helped initiate a Muslim Genocide of Christians in the Middle east-see ISIS and events in Egypt. Further, helped promoted socialist and communist racists regimes such as the ANC in Africa. Probably will be found to have been integral in the compromise of US election systems that have slowly being uncovered, as well as bringing a demented cancer ridden treasonous Vice POTUS to power so he could continue to damage the nation by avoiding the 22cd Amendment. He personally presided over the degradation of race relations in the US, oversaw the institution of DEI, and defended every radical left wing ‘racist socialist’ plan. He and his Vice President, Joe Biden, combined for at least 27.5 trillion of the entire 34.5 trillion in US debt, or about 80%. His actions have led directly to the degradation of the US dollar, stagnation of the economy, a rogue government that will not respect the will of the people. He presided over the greatest middle class denial of Blacks, removing more of them from middle class than any POTUS since the civil war. His economic policies were devasting to small business and middle class Americans, but resulted in financial windfalls for the very rich, foreign nations, and political loyalists, at the expense of the American people.
The problem isn’t that the above isn’t true, it is, the problem is that Americans are unable to accept the outcomes of his Administration. He is a Columbia Graduate, and everyone should remember this.
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