{"id":41172,"date":"2025-05-08T13:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=41172"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:14:09","slug":"demand-to-deplatform-zionist-ucb-commencement-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/demand-to-deplatform-zionist-ucb-commencement-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand to Deplatform Zionist UCB Commencement Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"129\" src=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-24.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-24.png 600w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-24-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-24-150x32.png 150w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-24-250x54.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Please click on this link to send a form letter to UC Berkeley for their decision to invite AIPAC activist and known normalizer Daniel Lubetzky is shameful and complicit.&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mailxto.com\/deplatformnow\">https:\/\/mailxto.com\/deplatformnow<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lubetzky, like this institution, cloaks violence in the language of neutrality. Just as Berkeley pretends to stand above the fray while cracking down on pro-Palestine voices, Lubetzky has publicly encouraged greater suppression of protests against the genocide in Gaza including those on college campuses, like Columbia. To invite him is to side with power over justice, erasure over memory, and violence over solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neutrality in the face of asymmetry is not virtue \u2014 it is violence. You are not honoring our class by platforming Lubetzky. You are spitting on the values many of us have risked so much to defend. You are pretending to commemorate a student body whose conscience you have systematically ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will not forget who stood silent and celebrated while Gaza burned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deplatform this zionist commencement speaker and send the email template to demand his removal from the commencement line-up. Spread the word especially to students and alumni.&nbsp;<br>Thank you for taking action!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br>Noura Khouri&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.al-awda.org\/\">Until Liberation &amp; Return<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Educate. Organize. Mobilize.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please click on this link to send a form letter to UC Berkeley for their decision to invite AIPAC activist and known normalizer Daniel Lubetzky is shameful and complicit.&nbsp;https:\/\/mailxto.com\/deplatformnow Lubetzky, like this institution, cloaks violence in the language of neutrality. Just as Berkeley pretends to stand above the fray while&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/demand-to-deplatform-zionist-ucb-commencement-speaker\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41174,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41172\/revisions\/41174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}