#“All the Support ” Logan Rozos“

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Samantha Riedel at Them:

New York University (NYU) administrators say they are withholding the diploma of Black trans undergraduate student Logan Rozos pending “disciplinary actions,” after Rozos condemned the “atrocities currently happening in Palestine” during his commencement address for the Gallatin School of Individualized Study this week. “As I search my heart in addressing you all today, my moral and political commitments guide me to say that the only appropriate thing to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine,” Rozos began, to cheers and applause from the crowd. “I want to say that the genocide currently occurring is supported politically and militarily by the Unted States, is paid for by our tax dollars, and has been livestreamed to our phones for the past 18 months. “I do not wish to speak only to my own politics today, but to speak for all people of conscience, and all people who feel the moral injury of this atrocity,” Rozos continued. “And I want to say that I condemn this genocide, and complicity in this genocide.” In a statement on Thursday, NYU Senior Vice President for Public Affairs and Strategic Communications John Beckman said that the university is currently withholding Rozos’ diploma while administrators pursue “disciplinary actions.” Beckman accused Rozos of “misus[ing] his role as student speaker to express his personal and one-sided political views,” alleging that Rozos “lied about the speech he was going to deliver and violated the commitment he made to comply with our rules.” Beckman did not specify what rules Rozos is alleged to have broken, nor what manner of disciplinary actions the university will seek. Them emailed Beckman to request clarification, but did not receive a reply at time of writing. In addition to being an NYU undergraduate student, Rozos is an actor best known for his debut in the Peabody Award-winning series David Makes Man in 2019, and was one of GLAAD and Teen Vogue’s “20 Under 20” list of LGBTQ+ changemakers in 2020. He is also the narrator of several trans-themed audiobooks, and a co-director and producer of the forthcoming documentary What Will I Become?.

[...] On Thursday, May 15 — the day after Rozos’ commencement address, and “Nakba day,” the annual observance of the 1948 annexation of Palestine — dozens of students booed and walked out of Mills’ own speech during the main NYU graduation ceremony at Yankee Stadium, Washington Square News reported.

The NYU’s decision to withhold the diploma of trans student Logan Rozos for his graduation speech that denounced the Israel Apartheid State’s Gaza Genocide campaign is disgraceful.

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: NYU withholds trans student’s diploma for condemning Gaza war in graduation speech

The Advocate: NYU withholds degree from gay transgender student over commencement speech

The Guardian: NYU withholds diploma of student who condemned Israel in graduation speech

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