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Harvard commencement speaker blasts university for barring anti-Israel protesters
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2:35Now PlayingShruthi Kumar, the Harvard senior selected to deliver the English address during their commencement ceremony, blasted the Ivy League school for not allowing more than a dozen students to receive their diplomas.
“I am deeply disappointed by the intolerance for freedom of speech and their right to civil disobedience on campus,” she said.
The students had taken part in an anti-Israel campus encampment at the university.
More than 1,000 people then staged a walkout to decry the disqualification of the 13 students, with many chanting “let them walk,” The Harvard Crimson reports.
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