UCLA speaker sparks outrage with ‘river to sea’ chant at graduation

The aim of seeking education in human sciences is to learn the great texts and ideas that have aroused the soul of civilization since Antiquity. It is a discipline that teaches reverence for the nuances, a punishment charted in history and intellectual humility. But you would not know from the opening speech during the recent ceremonies at the start of the human sciences of the UCLA.

The Caribbean Fragoza went to the podium bearing a Keffiyeh, declaring “from the river to the sea” (a slogan largely recognized as a call for the eradication of Israel and the Jews within it) and to deliver a lesson in solipsism and sophistication. This hateful message enhanced the public to Huer when graduates of Jewish studies and Hebrew were called on stage.

Anti-Israeli demonstrators torch diplomas outside Columbia University on the day of graduation

Fragoza’s speech was not placed on the order of intellectual nuances, but with the rhetorical certainties of the picking line. She presented the question of Palestine, without irony, recalling an episode in which she explained an artistic project on the theme of watermelon to her five -year -old child with the words “free”. She submitted the child’s understanding of the question as proof of his moral simplicity. But what she really revealed is that the epistemology of a kindergarten animates her scheme.

The promotion, supposed to be trained in reasoned disagreement, great ideas and the study of the ethics of virtue, responded with eruptive applause. The same crowd that has spent their university years to welcome illegal camps centered on the idea that “antizionism” is not anti -Semitic, Jewish and Hebrew Hourized studies when the departments were called after hearing the “free of Palestine” words.

Fragoza reported his hate message long before taking the podium. The keffiyeh she wore is not a neutral garment or a multicultural accessory of Kumbaya. After the massacre of October 7, 2023, it became a political symbol—A inseparable from Arab nationalism – which gained popularity after the Arab revolt of 1936-1939. However, when Fragoza arrived draped in a Kffiyeh, no dean or member of the faculty stopped to wonder if the graduation was the time of political costume.

The speech itself was filled with hatred and hyperbole. The Jews know too well that the song “from the river to the sea” is not a poetic abstraction but a blunt instrument of the maximalist ambition, calling for the elimination of the only Jewish state in the world.

When Fragoza sought to compare subtly Donald Trump to a fascistNo administrator wondered if these comments, directed against a financing class which probably includes many supporters of Trump, was a divider or inflammatory.

And when she said that the “brunette” student, whatever her immigration status, could expect to be gathered and expelled at the discretion of the state, no teacher pointed out as the straw error, it was so clear. Instead, the political hyperbole has become the university separation message to its students.

The animated metaphor for Fragoza’s speech was fire. She invoked the riots of Rodney King not as a tragedy, not even as a edifying story, but as a just fire. She affectionately recalled the looting of “free televisions” as if they were trophies of justice.

It is become commonplace: Families who travel great distances to honor their loved ones are often subject to such a political theater. The time of Mary Schmich’s “Wear Sucreen” speech is over time when graduation speeches were intended to celebrate or inspire. UCLA students received a soaked shipment in paranoia and propaganda. For Jewish students, including some who did not know if their relatives in Israel had survived the recent Iranian missile dam targeting civilians, it was too raw.

That such rhetoric has passed without objection is not simply a failure of the decorum. It is an accusation act of the Academy itself. It was not an isolated incident either. During the numerous graduation ceremonies of the UCLA this weekend, it was the norm.

When student leaders read the Oath of the Public Health School, the students of the crowd sang “except in Palestine” on appeal and response, without reprimand. According to a Official social media club of the School of Public HealthA bulletin has been evacuated to graduate students declaring “ACAB” “The acronym of” all the cops are bastards “,” all ice cream ends up melting “and” The struggle for the release of Palestinan is a work of antitihism “.

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During the UCLA labor study ceremony, a speaker declared the illegal camps who turned campus last year to be a highlight of his university career and accused Israel of genocide in Gaza. When obtaining the global diploma in arts and cultures, the student speaker wore a Keffiyeh, accused in a similar manner in Israel of genocide, and said he failed his majority, applause, no concern.

In each of these cases, the speeches were either approved by the administrators of the UCLA, or incurred by those who refused to intervene when the speakers came out outside the script.

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The descent of the beginnings of the UCLA in the ideological theater is not only discomfort. It’s an alarm clock. If the Academy must be bought, it will force students, teachers, elders and citizens to insist once again that education is an act of elevation, no indoctrination. The integrity of the human sciences and the humanity which they claim to serve depend on it.