A student graduating at the University of California, Berkeley, had his diploma withheld from him, video shows, until he put aside the Palestinian flag he came onstage with.
Video of the incident shows students jeering and booing as the student is told, “You cannot display flags here.”
The student then hands his flag to someone, before walking back across the stage where he is finally handed his scroll.
The protester was identified as Hesham by a local chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement. He said he is against the university’s ties to Israeli companies.
“This small act that I took waving the Palestinian flag, and the repression that followed it, is a small example of the UC system’s wider complicity towards the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” he said.
“I’m demanding that UC Berkeley cuts ties with genocide, cuts ties with companies that are fueling this ongoing genocide,” he said.
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