May 16, 2025
Student's Diploma WITHHELD After Condemning Genocide In Gaza During Speech
New York University Logan Rozos called out the "atrocities" happening in Palestine during his graduation speech.
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As I search my heart today
in addressing you,
all my moral and political commitments
guide me to say that the only thing
that is appropriate to say in this time,
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and to a group this large,
is a recognition of the atrocities
currently happening in Palestine.
So that was a message,
the beginning of a message.
We will show you more being delivered
as a graduation speech by Logan
Rosos at NYU that has resulted in,
at least as of right now,
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the withholding of Logan's diploma
for saying things that are
so incredibly politically incorrect
that you are four years of education might
just be wiped away as a result of it,
because they say that he did
not comply with school rules
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when it comes to his speech,
and their commitment to those rules
is just infinitely larger
than their commitment to free speech
as a concept, unfortunately.
And we're going to have a lot to say,
as some Congress people do,
which we will also reveal to you.
But first, we want to give you
more of what Logan had to say.
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The genocide currently occurring.
Is supported politically and militarily
by the United States, is paid for by our
tax dollars, and has been live streamed
to our phones for the past 18 months.
I condemn this genocide
and complicity in this genocide.
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Obviously unacceptable
should probably be locked up.
But, when, Logan initially,
talked about the genocide, there were a
number of people who you heard applauded.
There were actually apparently
in the wider shot, there were some
faculty members that applauded as well,
although there were some boos,
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to both in the room
and now coming from some, representatives,
including Representative Jared Moskowitz,
who said he lied to the university.
Second of all,
he lied to everyone listening.
There is no genocide going on in Israel.
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What a liar. Moskowitz is ridiculous.
He's going to do
an anti-Semitic trope in a minute.
- Keep going.
- There is a war.
It's unfortunate.
It seems to break his heart.
And there are people in harm's way
because of what Hamas did.
Only Hamas. It is a one sided conflict.
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No one else has done anything wrong.
Enthusiasts.
It was Hamas that set off that gender
reveal bomb in a building, I suppose.
Yes.
There are situations
that I wish would improve, like, you know,
getting more food into Gaza,
which is just an abstract problem.
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Nobody's causing it.
Nobody's responsible
for the food not getting in there.
It's just like it's far.
You know, the roads aren't great.
Nobody's blocking the food
or the water or the medicine.
Nobody's targeting places
where it's distributed,
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where refugees come to get the food.
Nobody's blowing up the hospitals.
It's all just an act of God.
Well, maybe not God.
It's an act of nature.
I suppose it's an abstract problem
that you can, like, feel bad about
in an abstract way.
But don't talk about it.
Don't talk about it in front of a group
of educated, passionate young people
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that clearly enjoyed hearing that message.
Don't do that.
He concludes by saying, but at the end
of the day, that's up to the university,
whether they give him his diploma or not.
You know, in fact,
they can give him his diploma.
It's not going to matter.
Good luck getting a job.
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That was a stupid, selfish thing.
Ruin the ceremony
for a lot of families here.
We were trying to enjoy the genocide.
And all of a sudden, you come and ruin it
by telling us it's a genocide.
It was selfish. He made it all about him.
Yeah, well, not him.
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Civilians being killed in Gaza.
But that's selfish.
I mean, he's just making it about
the 53,000 already murdered,
including 18,000 children and the 2.2
million people being starved to death
over the last two and a half months.
You see how selfish he is?
When me, a lover of Israel, says
that his whole life should be canceled,
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not just his diploma,
but he should never get a job again.
That's not me being selfish.
No no no no no no.
Look, they would have done this if he'd
criticized Norway or if he'd criticized,
you know, cantaloupes.
It was just because he lied
that they were so upset.
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Yeah, sure.
It just happens to be about Israel again,
Interesting.
So. Okay.
Did you notice
the anti-Semitic trope he did there?
Basically saying
you'll never get a job again?
But wait a minute. That's like.
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That's what people say about Jews. Like.
Like if you ever say anything
against Israel, Jews will make sure
that you never work again.
Jews will make sure of this,
that and the other thing.
And we say that doesn't happen.
And here's Jared Moskowitz,
a Democratic congressman,
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saying, oh, no, it will happen.
We'll make sure that you never get a job.
If you ever criticize Israel
or you're honest about Israel.
That's like one of the most anti-Semitic
things that congressman has ever said.
Are they going to censure him?
What do you mean,
he's never going to get a job?
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How would you know that?
What are you going to go
and talk to every single person
who could possibly hire him?
Millions and millions of people.
What does it mean that you know
that he won't be able to get a job?
And by the way, he's not.
It's not theoretical.
A billionaire like Bill Ackman have
said for anyone going to peace protests,
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peace protests that he circulated a memo
in Wall Street saying never hire them
if they dare cross Israel
in any way, shape or form,
if they dare be for Israel for peace.
If they dare say that Israel starving
children to death is a problem.
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Make sure they never work again.
But I mean, what are you talking?
But if you said, hey, Bill, aren't you
doing the trope, he'd be like anti-Semite.
Come on. Come on.
That's not anti-Semitic.
You know what is actually bigoted when you
say, oh, this guy minds 2 million people
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being starved to death.
They're only Muslims.
Who cares? I mean, I care a little bit.
Oh, what a tragic starvation.
But don't ever mention it.
Otherwise, you'll never work again.
You're doing so much damage.
Not only to everyone,
not only to this country.
And by the way,
if you're a US congressman,
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maybe you read the Constitution.
You know, the freedom of speech thing.
That tiny little thing
in the First Amendment.
There's no asterisks
unless you criticize my beloved Israel.
And yes, I work for them
and not the US government, I said it.
Why don't you concentrate
on the US government, Jared Moskowitz,
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instead of, oh, somebody's not in Congress
at an NYU graduation and not at Florida,
where he's a congressman, but in New
York said one thing criticizing Israel
as they're in the middle of the worst war
crimes we've ever seen in our lifetime.
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Are you better not?
There will be consequences,
Moskowitz says.
He does more damage to Jews
in America than anyone else can do.
You got to cut that kind of talk out, man.
Jesus Christ.
We're trying to make sure
that anti-Semitism doesn't rise
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while we make sure that Israel
doesn't keep killing Palestinians.
Those are both very hard tasks.
But you're not helping when you go around.
If you cross us Jews will
make sure you don't get a job.
Why do you say that?
Why do you say that? That's so stupid.
Now, when you go and I go debate
whoever the hell comes up, right?
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The Alex Jones's of the world.
Not that I'm going to do that,
but when they pop up at different things
and they say, what do you mean?
Moskowitz says they won't give him a job.
And Bill Ackman literally wrote a memo
saying they're not allowed to get a job.
They canceled their careers.
They arrest them. They deport them.
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What do you mean? How can you say that?
They're not doing this
when they're admitting doing it?
Moskowitz, you're not supposed
to say it out loud, you moron.
And what are you going to do?
Well, I mean, that's your threat.
That's your threat.
So are you going to go
and call up Wall Street
and go make sure you don't hire this guy?
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He criticized Israel.
Cancel them, cancel them, cancel them.
Is that what you're going to do?
Because that's what you said.
That's what you said.
Okay.
So no. In this country.
God help you.
God help you if you criticize Israel
because these are the monsters out there.
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Moskowitz.
Who think genocide is no big deal.
Starving kids of death is no big deal.
But saying that we're starving them
to death, saying that it's a genocide.
Huge deal. Huge deal.
You should never work again. No, brother.
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If you're pro genocide like you obviously
are, you should never work again.
The people in that district
should fire you.
But. Okay.
Oh, did I criticize Israel?
Go ahead. Moskowitz.
Go ahead, go ahead.
Even though you were the one who said
the anti-Semitic trope, I know what you're
going to say, because it's what every
vicious supporter of Israel says.
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Not every supporter of Israel is vicious.
People like Moskowitz are vicious.
You're going to say,
I got a one trick pony, anti-Semite.
No one should hire Jenk.
Again, I'm going to call everybody.
Make sure that he's not hired.
Okay. I'm Moskowitz.
I'm in charge of the country, okay?
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No one is allowed to criticize
my beloved Israel.
You'll all be fired.
By the way, I don't do cancel culture.
I don't do anything like that.
Is that right?
Because it certainly looks like it, Moz.
I mean, first of all,
that kid was very courageous.
Good for him for taking that that
opportunity to stand in front of all
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those people and say what he said.
And that's we should be celebrating
that as Americans,
no matter what side you stand on
with Israel and Palestine, you should be
celebrating his freedom of speech.
To say that and his courage
to stand up there and actually say it.
Now, there was a funny moment,
if you look at the video
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where there was a faculty behind him,
and when he said something
about the genocide, the faculty,
the guy just puts his head down
like he's like, oh, no, here we go.
But hey, this kid was courageous
to stand up there and say that.
And the truth is, when it comes
to Moskowitz, there's a lot of stuff
I've seen of Moskowitz that I like.
I think that he does a good job.
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But in this case, you're absolutely right.
What is he talking about?
The fact is, you know,
they jump on anything that you say.
This kid was up there saying, look, let's.
I have to take this moment
to stand up for justice in this case.
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And I don't care again,
whether you're Israeli or you're Jewish
or you're Muslim or you're Palestinian.
We are seeing these killings
of innocent people and women and children,
and it continues and it keeps going.
And you got to call it out.
And I am surprised at how the blind spot
that so many people like
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Moskowitz have when it comes to this.
Where is the humanity?
Where is the sympathy
that they feel for other people in inside
this country or around the world,
and it just somehow gets lost?
I mean, you can't even say cease fire.
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You say cease fire. They go.
How dare you say cease fire?
You want Hamas to kill us?
No, I don't want Hamas to kill you.
I want the hostages to come back.
I want the killings to stop.
I want the place to be rebuilt.
We all want a solution.
We want a peaceful solution.
But if you look at the facts
and you look at Netanyahu,
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and you look at his cabinet and you see
that they're far right and they do want
the annihilation of Palestinians.
Then you understand
what this kid is talking about,
and you call a spade a spade.
So it's upsetting to me
to see some people who are, you know,
on the left who don't see that.
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I agree. Let me a couple of quick points.
Yeah.
First of all, there's the genocide
that we've all witnessed.
We just have.
If you can't identify this as a year
and a half long series of intentional war
crimes, then war crimes just don't
exist anymore in an objective sense.
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Maybe people you hate
can commit war crimes, but there's nothing
that's objectively a war crime.
If what we've seen doesn't count.
Let alone that Moskowitz knows that Donald
Trump has already announced that they're
going to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
They're going to ship everyone out.
They're going to pack them
in cargo containers, send them to some
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slum somewhere and steal all their land.
And everybody's just pretending
that that's not a thing that Donald Trump
has promised multiple times
and has not been discussed
in the Israeli government already.
But, in terms of the message,
let's also acknowledge
that this is to some extent a consequence
of the the overall icing of free speech
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that we've experienced as a society.
Nyu is terrified that if it gets
out that he did, if he did this speech,
if it gets out that federal funding
could be cut to the university
and everyone at the top will be fired.
And the reason they believe that
is because that's
what the Trump administration is doing.
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And so the reason
the Trump administration does it
is so that then they're not the only ones
that have stifled free speech, but that
NYU will try to stifle free speech.
Everyone will be so terrified that
the massive, implacable boot of government
will crush anyone who defies them,
that they then do the censoring for them.
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So I think that's part of why
NYU has freaked out so much.
But in one final little ironic thing,
it's so interesting how incentives
work out, because Logan's goal, I assume,
was for as many people as possible
to hear his message.
And the best he could probably hope for
was the people in the room,
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maybe a TikTok or whatever.
And I don't remember
what the principle is.
Was it Bette Midler or whatever
that didn't want photos
getting out of her house or something.
So she kept suing people.
And so a billion times more people saw the
photos than would have otherwise seen it.
Like if they hadn't freaked out,
who would know about the speech?
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Let me ask you a question.
This is a graduation ceremony.
There's been graduation ceremonies
at a lot of universities.
What was said at the Rutgers
graduation speech or Bu Villanueva?
I don't know,
because nobody freaked out about it.
But you guys freaked out about it.
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So many, many, many times
more people will see it.
There's a very real chance.
Logan Rose becomes a political player now
as a result of this, at least, is going
to be interviewed by a bunch of people.
So they have maybe unknowingly
made his message a thousand times more,
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in terms of its reach.
And by the way, of course,
you didn't hear about Rutgers
or Villanova or anything like that
because nobody criticized Israel.
But if you criticize Israel,
then you're going to have hell to pay.
And this is America.
This is America, by the way.
If you criticize America,
there'd be no controversy at all.
You can say the worst things
in the world about America.
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That's not going
to get you in any trouble.
So to John's point, okay, everybody's
terrified because Trump is saying,
I'm going to cancel your funding.
ET cetera.
ET cetera.
And then Moskowitz, who's a Democrat,
goes, oh, let me help Donald Trump
in terrifying everyone.
Not only will could NYU have all your
funding pulled because of my beloved
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friend Donald Trump here, who agrees
with the genocide of Netanyahu and me.
Like meaning that he, Moskowitz and Trump
agree with Netanyahu's genocide.
If you don't cry and tell me
you don't agree with it,
you obviously agree with it.
In fact, you think that anyone
who even mentions it should be canceled.
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So Moskowitz goes, let me help
Donald Trump and terrifying everyone.
If you mention it,
I'll make sure you never get a job.
You don't get your diploma.
Me and all my powerful friends, he says,
which I don't, I don't believe,
but he's trying to terrify you and say,
The Jews run the world
and we'll make sure you never get a job,
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no matter where you go.
Well, I don't believe you.
Representative Moskowitz, I don't think
that's how the world works at all, right?
But you're using that threat
in a sick, disgusting way
that drives up anti-Semitism.
And I don't want anybody to think
this is about religion.
Governments do terrible things.
Netanyahu and you said Trump.
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Forget Trump.
Netanyahu and the cabinet have voted
saying they will
never be a Palestinian state.
Now, Netanyahu has said we're going
to do an all out conquest of Gaza Strip.
We told you it was always to take
the land, and now they've proved us right.
But Moskowitz will say, no, no,
they accidentally took the land.
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Hamas made us take the land. Hamas.
Hamas made us destroy
every hospital, every school in Gaza.
They made us starve
Palestinian kids to death.
They made us do it.
Oh, we're so innocent and moral, right?
And by the way, Moskowitz, it's not we.
You're a U.S.
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Congressman.
You're not an Israeli Knesset member.
Okay?
But here in America, there is beautiful,
brave, bold Jewish Americans who are
fighting back for peace and decency.
What do they want?
They want the same thing.
I want a safe haven for Jews and Israel
and an independent and free Palestine.
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Ben Cohen just got arrested in Congress.
That's an American hero Robert Greenwald,
doing a movie about how Palestinian
journalists are getting killed.
And every kind of journalist is getting
killed in Gaza in record numbers.
Dave Smith and Bernie Sanders
and the list goes on and on.
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So don't think it's the Jews. It's not.
It's just monsters like Moskowitz
who think that a genocide is no big deal.
And if you do enough propaganda, he'll be
able to run cover for his beloved Israel.
Well, Moskowitz, if it's so beloved
to you, why don't you go, okay.
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Because we love this country, okay?
We want to serve this country.
If you want to.
Like, for example, I came from Turkey,
and I don't know where Moskowitz is from.
I assume he was born here, right?
I was actually born in Turkey.
So you and I lived there till I was eight.
So normally you say
more allegiance, right?
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Well, Erdogan is stealing democracy
from Turkey.
I'm criticizing the Turkish government.
How can you criticize a government
of your own ethnicity?
Is that allowed? Oh, you can.
Of course you can.
If you're not biased and you're
actually an American and you use objective
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judgment, but not for Moskowitz.
But here's the thing.
Congressman Ben Cohen,
Robert Greenwald, us every decent person
can say never again.
You, on the other hand,
don't tell me never again.
But with an asterisk.
It's okay if it's Palestinians
because I'm racist against them.
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And I think they're the violent ones,
as we just murdered 53,000 people
and you say, oh, it's not murder.
There's some Hamas in there.
How about the 18,000 kids?
I know you've got some sort of Hamas
made us murder 18,000 kids.
And yes, it's murder.
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When you drop a bomb on a child
and you light them on fire,
or concrete slab comes and crushes
their head and and kills that baby.
That's murder.
Don't tell me you didn't intend to do it.
When Israel killed 8000 children,
that was 18,000 mistakes.
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No it wasn't.
No rational human being believes that.
Only propagandist
for a sick, genocidal government.
Believe that.
And that is not all Israeli governments.
That is the current genocidal
Israeli government that has announced.
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Yes, we're going to push them out.
We're going to ethnically cleanse them.
We're going to steal that land.
But if you say things that are true
that they themselves said and voted on,
Moskowitz will say, you're
never going to work in America again.
No, no, you don't get to decide that.
You don't speak for all Jews.
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You don't speak for all Americans.
You don't speak for anyone
except monsters who love genocide.
That's who Representative Moskowitz is.
Yeah, I know Maz is right.
I've seen him do other things.
Oh. That's clever.
Oh, he's got fun little sneakers.
And I was fine.
And I've complimented him in the past.
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But if you're going to come here
and threaten all Americans
to take away our freedoms and our rights
on behalf of another government,
that you can kindly eff off Young
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