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mjvpi

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1. My daughter received her masters degree from UCBerkley last Saturday.
Tue May 14, 2024, 04:45 AM
May 2024

Everything that I saw and heard at the commencement ceremony was finally organized civil disobedience. I heard a key note speaker address some of the brightest kids in the country, if not the world, with basketball analogies and sports platitudes. There was a large, non violent group of students who made their presence and their support of the Palestinian people known. I heard nothing but "cease fire now"and divestment from arms manufacturers and the State of Israel due to their killing of civilians. Famine and indiscriminate destruction of infrastructure are what I heard about. I heard nothing in their protest that was anti Jewish. It was all "cease fire now". The key note speaker was trite in comparison. If these groups are contending that what I saw was antisemitism, they weren’t really listening to what was being said. It was a call for the US and Berkeley to stop supporting the killing in Gaza.

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