For the second year in a row, college graduation season is being marked by student activism in solidarity with Palestine, and consequent backlash. Around the world — from Rutgers University, to Cambridge University in the U.K. to University of Doha for Science and Technology in Qatar — students have chanted “Free Palestine” or held Palestinian flags while crossing the graduation stage, sometimes to threats of arrest. New York University and George Washington University both made headlines this past week for penalizing graduation student speakers who brought Palestine into their speeches.
On Wednesday May 14, during the graduation ceremony for New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, student and actor Logan Rozos — featured in Teen Vogue in 2020, as a member of GLAAD’s “20 Under 20” list of LGBTQ youth — went off-script. “My moral and political commitments guide me to say that the only…