- Round 500 college students walked out of Stanford’s commencement ceremony on Sunday
- The scholars had been seen sporting keffiyehs and waving Palestinian flags
Stanford College’s commencement ceremony on Sunday was thrown into chaos after college students staged a pro-Palestine protest and walked out.
Round 5 hundred college students, some sporting keffiyehs and holding Palestinian flags, walked out of the stadium in the course of the President’s tackle, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
‘This morning we need to rejoice your achievements despite the troubled surroundings,’ President Richard Saller instructed the scholars moments earlier than the mass walkout.
Round 500 college students walked out of Stanford’s commencement ceremony on Sunday
The college has been mired in controversy as college students have publicly demonstrated in opposition to the Israel-Hamas warfare and known as on the school to divest from its hyperlinks with Israel.
A professional-Palestine encampment remained on campus for greater than 100 days and 13 college students had been finally arrested throughout its elimination.
Footage from the ceremony posted to social media exhibits college students of their caps and robes strolling from their seats away from the speaker’s stage and in the direction of the again of the stadium.
One scholar was seen holding up an indication studying ‘Free Palestine. Stanford Divest!’
Some within the stands cheered the scholars as they left the occasion, whereas different college students remained seated.
The walkout was reportedly organised by the activist group Stanford In opposition to Apartheid in Palestine.
‘We invite graduates, pals, and household to stroll out of the graduation into our various ceremony subsequent to the stadium, to indicate assist for divestment and honor Palestine this commencement weekend,’ the group posted on its Instagram account.
‘The ceremony will embody a poetic grounding, speeches from school and college students, and a cap toss’ the publish added.
The group established ‘The Individuals’s Graduation’ various ceremony in a subject on campus, the Chronicle reported.
