Another college graduate in the United States is being denied a diploma after speaking out for Palestinian rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Palestinian American Sereen Haddad has been organizing at Virginia Commonwealth University with Students for Justice in Palestine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The group\u2019s actions have been repeatedly targeted and repressed by VCU administration, including banning the use of sidewalk chalk to write messages on campus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sereen Haddad told reporters: \u201dVCU claims to uplift marginalized voices, unless those voices call out genocide. And they claim to celebrate diversity, until that diversity challenges the status quo. And they claim to teach critical thinking, but punish those who think critically about empire, occupation and ethnic cleansing. VCU wants me to choose silence over justice and comfort over courage and a diploma over my people. I have lost over 200 family members in this ongoing genocide just in the last year and a half.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sereen\u2019s father is Palestinian American doctor and leader Tariq Haddad, who last year refused to meet with then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the Biden administration\u2019s support of Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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