Ted Cruz and other lawmakers have slammed a New York University for allowing a graduate to deliver a ‘hate’ speech attacking the US military – while getting her education at taxpayer expense.
Yemeni immigrant Fatima Mousa Mohammed uses her commencement speech at City University of New York Law School on May 12 to claim laws are “white supremacy” and attack American institutions as “fascist.”
The controversial clip from the law school graduation ceremony has people on social media inflamed – including lawmakers themselves.
Mohammed called the NYPD and the US military “fascists” and called on his peers to continue the “revolution” against capitalism and racism across the country.
The future lawyer claimed that black and brown prisoners are murdered daily in American prisons and denounced her own university for “cooperation with global violence”.
Mohammed began his speech by saying, “I chose CUNY Law School for its articulated mission of being law in the service of human needs.
Fatima Mousa Mohammed (pictured) used her graduation ceremony to call the NYPD and US military ‘fascists’ and called on her peers to continue the ‘revolution’ against capitalism and racism across the country
“One of the few legal institutions created to recognize that the law is a manifestation of white supremacy that continues to oppress and suppress people in this country and around the world.”
His speech, which also included multiple references to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, drew criticism from many people.
Former United States Representative Lee Zeldin said, “Unleashed anti-Semitism has utterly consumed the City University of New York.
“Until the administration is overhauled and all Jewish students and faculty are welcome back, taxpayer funding must be halted immediately.”
Congressman Mike Lawler added, “That’s exactly why I’m finalizing legislation to strip universities of their funding if they engage in and promote anti-Semitism.”
“CUNY should be ashamed of itself – and should lose all federal funds it is currently receiving.”
Kiryas Joel School District Superintendent Joel M. Petlin said: ‘Listen to 13 minutes of this hateful graduation speech, and you’ll hear what she thinks about the law, the police, the safety of borders and how it distinguishes the only democracy in the Middle East.
“As a New Yorker, I’m shocked that I subsidized his education.”
Texas Senator Ted Cruz added, “City University of New York’s class day speaker slanders Israel and enthusiastically celebrates anti-Semitism.
“Bravo for opening borders and releasing violent criminals from prison. And denounces the “fascist NYPD”. It’s a law school. Paid with taxpayers’ money.
Another irate viewer online said: ‘CUNY has become the hotbed of hate.
During his speech, Mohammed praised the school and its alumni for “working to lift the facade of legal neutrality and confront the systems of oppression that inflict violence on them”.
“Systems that were created to feed an empire with a voracious appetite for destruction and violence.
“Institutions created to intimidate, intimidate, censor and stifle the voices of those who resist.”
She thanked CUNY for being “one of the only” universities to issue a statement allowing students to stage protests “against Israeli settler colonialism.” She claimed that Israel is “indiscriminately raining bullets and bombs” on the Palestinians.
Mohammed was previously a summer legal intern at the National Lawyers Guild – and before graduating from CUNY law school, she attended John Jay College and earned a bachelor’s degree in law and society with a minor in academics. on human rights.
Mohammed went on to discuss a number of reasons to celebrate his peers – including their help for asylum seekers – before adding: ‘We did all of this, despite racism, selective activism and selfish CUNY interests. central – an institution that continues to fail us.
“It continues to cooperate with the fascist NYPD, the military, which continues to train IDF soldiers to carry out this same violence around the world.”
“Let us remember that brown and black men are being murdered daily by the state in Rikers…that there are refugees on the southern border who are still locked up.
“That the killing of black men like Jordan Neely by a white man on the MTA is honored by politicians like Eric Adams and Sen Chuck Schumer.
‘Can [the joy, excitement and rage in the auditorium] to be the fuel for the struggle against capitalism, racism, imperialism and Zionism in the world.
‘No one will save the world. No movement will liberate the masses.
‘Those who brought the ferocity of violence, those who carried the revolution, the people, the masses, those who brought the ferocity of violence, those who need our protection.
“They will carry this revolution.”
Throughout her speech, she paused to allow for cheers and shouts of support from audience members, parents and fellow graduates.
Mohammed was previously a summer legal intern at the National Lawyers Guild.
Before graduating from CUNY Law School, she attended John Jay College and earned a bachelor’s degree in law and society with a minor in human rights studies.
She told members of the public at the ceremony that she came “from the rich soil of Yemen, raised by the humble streets of Queens”.
It is understood that the clip of Mohammed’s speech was removed from YouTube by the law school, but they later reposted it following public outcry.
CUNY has been contacted for comment.
Prior to her graduation speech, Mohammed was known to be an avid protester on campus – and in a video speaking from a picket line, said: ‘[We] demand that Zionist professors are not welcome on your campus.
“Demand that Zionist students not be in spaces where Palestinian students are.
She spoke to a cheering crowd: “We don’t want Zionists here!
