• A City University of New York (CUNY) law commencement speech garnering attention for being “divisive” is now under fire from one of the institution’s law professors who, aligning with other critics, called its anti-Semitic, anti-police and anti-capitalist rhetoric “disgusting.”
• CUNY law graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed’s May 12 speech honed in on dismantling systems of oppression in the U.S. including the military, police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), voiced support for anti-Israel efforts while accusing the nation of murdering Palestinians and called out the alleged unfairness of capitalist America.
• “May we rejoice in the corners of our New York City apartments and dining tables. May it be the fuel in the fight against capitalism, racism, imperialism and Zionism around the world,” she said in part.

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