NYU may have ignored its own protocols to allow anti-Israel grad speech: insider

New York University may have ignored its own protocols for commencement speakers, allowing a student speaker to complete a divisive anti-Israel speech at its Gallatin School graduation — as some faculty members applauded, a school insider told The Post.“As I search my my heart ..

.the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine,” student Logan Rozos said Wednesday in the opening of his three-minute speech laced with a one-sided narrative about the Israel-Gaza war.“I want to say that I condemn this genocide and condemn the complicity in this genocide,” he said claiming the US was “militarily and politically” complicit, as faculty on the dais were seen applauding and nodding emphatically.An NYU insider who’s been at the school decades told The Post Rozos should have never been allowed to finish his speech.Students have to “submit a copy of the speech and agree to read that speech and none other,” the insider said.“There’s definitely a breakdown in protocol.

When someone goes off script, the mic is supposed to be cut.These events are produced to the syllable because they need to be.“It’s supposed to be zero surprises – 100 percent by design.”The insider added that “the real question is if there were faculty on the inside who put him up to this.”“My mind, seeing all the faculty on the stage clapping, caused me to question whether they were in some way involved or not,” said the source, noting their robust record of anti-Israel sentiment according to the Canary Mission, which tracks antisemitism.Fellow grads were aghast NYU allowed Rozos to finish the “inflammatory” and “incredibly narcissistic” diatribe at the Beacon Theatre ceremony.“They absolutely should have cut it off and not applauded him,” fumed Sabrina Maslavi, a Gallatin grad who settled a federal antimsemitism lawsuit with NYU last year.Maslavi told the Po...