Another day, another university student punished for speaking out about the more than 50,000 Gazans who have been killed by Israeli forces. Megha Vemuri, the 2025 class president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was barred from attending her graduation on Friday after speaking out against the university’s complicity in Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza at a commencement ceremony the day before. “Right now, while we prepare to graduate and move forward with our lives, there are no universities left in Gaza,” she said, reading from a wrinkled sheet of paper and wearing a keffiyeh. “We are watching Israel try to wipe Palestine off the face of the earth, and it is a shame that MIT is a part of it.” While some of her classmates cheered and held up Palestinian flags, a few J

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