STARTING A CAREER WITH HATE

The recent graduation speech at the City University New York’s law school launched a legal career based on hate and racism. In speech which was everted an approved by the faculty, given by graduating student Fatima Moussa Mohammed comprised of hate and calls for destruction of Jews, and the revolution against the United States. This is hate speech, and not free speech. That a future attorney should launch her career in this way is a worry. Even more worrying is that her speech was not only approved by the faculty, but applauded by the Dean. The University only put out a statement condemning the speech after a backlash and calls to cut it is funding. This should be totally unacceptable, but is not surprising given the rapid and massive rise of antisemitism in many western countries, including the United States, Great Britain and Australia, fuelled by immigration from the Middle East. These countries continue to ignore this and only pay lip service to this form of racism.