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Episode 378 - Academic Suppression at Harvard: Students Speak Out (w/ Asmer Safi & Prince Williams)

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4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Last month over 1000 Harvard students walked out of commencement in protest of the war on Gaza and the university's decision to not allow 13 seniors to graduate, including Rhodes Scholar Asmer Safi. Safi joins Bad Faith along with junior Prince Williams, who was also suspended by the university, to discuss their divestment strategy, the downfall of Claudine Gay, and how Harvard has cracked down on students in order to protect their endowment.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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0:00.0

I'm still doing this work. We develop slogans over the last seven months related to the repression, right?

0:06.4

And one of them is you can suspend this, but you can't suspend the movement. So, All right. It's my pleasure to have on bad days podcast finally to actual students, people who have been involved in these really inspiring campus protests that we've seen all across the country.

0:52.0

We have Osmer Safi who is a recent

0:55.6

graduate of the right to say recent graduate of Harvard College and Prince

1:00.9

Williams who is a rising senior but as we'll get into the status of these academic careers, are now in flux, given how, frankly, I'll characterize it this way.

1:12.4

draconian, the administration's push back. given how, frankly, I'll characterize it this way,

1:12.5

draconian the administration's pushback

1:15.0

has been against pro-Palestinian activism.

1:18.2

Welcome to bad faith to you both.

1:20.9

Thank you very much.

1:22.0

Thanks for having us. So, Osmar, how about you start? Thank you

1:25.0

start by telling us how you got involved with the pro-Palestinian activism on campus and what the current status of your degree is.

1:33.8

Absolutely.

1:34.8

I'm supposed to have graduated from Harvard

1:37.8

as of May 23rd, but have not been given my degree.

1:41.5

Let's take you guys back a little bit. So I've been involved in profile sign organizing not. not just

1:45.0

this year but since my freshman year of college so freshman spring I joined the

1:49.0

Palestine Solidarity Committee which is one of the organizations that is currently facing administrative sanctions

1:54.4

well so it was suspended earlier this year by the Harvard administration based off of new

1:58.6

protests rules and regulations that were created in order to make sure that pro-ballPalestinian activism in some form or way could be stopped.

2:05.3

But essentially, I've been part of the divest campaigns that have been calling for divestment from

2:10.3

Israel and the crimes of apartheid genocide on Harvard's campus and sort of calling

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