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In a public statement issued after Thrasher’s speech, NYU’s President Andrew Hamilton wrote:

I found it quite objectionable that the student speaker chose to make use of the Graduate School of Arts and Science doctoral graduation to express his personal viewpoints on BDS and related matters, language he excluded from the version of the speech he had submitted before the ceremony. We are sorry that the audience had to experience these inappropriate remarks. A graduation should be a shared, inclusive event; the speaker’s words—one-sided and tendentious—indefensibly made some in the audience feel unwelcome and excluded.

The Dean of NYU’s graduate school, Phillip Brian Harper, echoed the sentiment in a letter to Thrasher:

You are, of course, entitled to hold whatever views you wish. [Commencement,] however, is meant to be a collective celebration of scholarly and intellectual achievement. As such, it brings together a large number of participants with potentially wide-ranging views on a whole host of topics. For this very reason, it is an inappropriate forum for ad hoc expression of support for specific political causes.

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