(KRON) – Stanford University graduates left their commencement ceremony on Sunday in protest for Palestine.
In one viewer’s video (see above), several Stanford graduates walked out of the graduation ceremony wearing the Palestinian flag as their sash.
The students and graduates are demanding that the university be divested from companies that provide money to Israel for the war against Hamas. Chevron, Lockheed Martin and Hewlett-Packard are among the companies whose students and graduates want Stanford University to raise money.
According to a press release from the organization Stanford for Palestine, the group will host an alternative ceremony called “The People’s Commencement.” “The ceremony will “honor the victims of the genocide in Palestine and the continuation of the student body for divestment.”
Since October 7, multiple protests for both sides of the war have begun on the Standford campus.
According to NPR, more than 30,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the ongoing war in Gaza.
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