Anti-Israel Columbia grads wear zip ties, rip diplomas on stage during commencement

Defiant Columbia University graduates wore zip-tie handcuffs, brandished pro-Palestinian signs and even went as far as tearing up a diploma on stage during the Ivy League’s first commencement ceremonies last week.
The protesting students were caught on camera storming across the platform on Friday to accept their degrees during ceremonies that were significantly pared after weeks of violent anti-Israel demonstrations on campus.
In one of the most belligerent displays, Tarsis Salome, a Columbia social work graduate, charged forward with her zip-tied hands above her head as those in the audience cheered her on.
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[@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy]

Woke is not a movement it's a diagnosis

[@Honkers716]

This is what democracy looks like

[@drzaius1121]

​@@Honkers716pro hamas is not democracy

[@cohenlabe1]

A woke brain is a broke brain

[@boomtwack]

Sad

[@PoseidonIncoming]

​@@Honkers716 My foot

[@stephenw.9647]

they hate the country but enjoy the perks

[@blueskybird3024]

40k+ killed, wake up!

[@sllaatt9264]

so were supposed to support aiding in ethnic cleansing and enjoying the "perks" that come with it?

[@stephenw.9647]

Everybody wants to fight for their country but nobody wants to put their boots on

[@Ken-ce4co]

​@sllaatt9264 who's aiding in ethnic cleansing? You mean " from the river to the sea"genocide people?

[@alexgiron2105]

@@sllaatt9264 Put a helmet on life’s tough snowflake

[@owest4008]

Domestic t e r r o r i s t s

[@polyticks8453]

Not according to George W Bush who designated white Christian nationalists as domestic terrorists in the early/mid 2000's.

[@sllaatt9264]

there is no definition of terrorism that you can find that doesn't apply to the state of israel or usa

[@sllaatt9264]

Israel has a de facto caste system in the territories it controls between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, with Israeli Jews at the top. The land and people of Israel are subject to different legal regimes, and Palestinians are permanently treated as a lower caste.

[@gavrielmusheyev141]

@@sllaatt9264womp womp womp, leave America if you hate it so much

[@lucygrace1193]

@@gavrielmusheyev141Send ALL of them to Gaza! They’ll be begging to come to the United States after that!

[@Nylon_riot]

I hope employers keep a list of their names of such pathological and self centered people. . This is a graduation for everyone. You are not more important than anyone else. The other graduates should sue the school for having their graduation ruined by narcissists.

[@lovermansmith9082]

Cheers , narcissism is the root of all Evil . Groooomed to take their eye off their own backyard , Ain't they worldly 😊

[@sllaatt9264]

the protesters are the self centered people? the gaslighting is crazy we get it you fw facism and zionism

[@sllaatt9264]

the protesters are the self centered people? the gaslighting is crazy we get it you fw the fascist

[@cool0000007]

How can you stand with Israel even when Israel is committing crimes against humanity?

[@azalia423]

Terrible, isn't it, when people wanna interrupt our greed, vicious and narcissistic colonizing of other peoples land--

[@debrasnipes7431]

Just proves to show an education doesn’t equal intelligence.

[@bmanagement4657]

I know right, too many students conform to israeli lies

[@cynthiaz9602]

Nope and they are ALL democrats. Go figure. 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

[@cynthiaz9602]

Nope and they are ALL democrats. Go figure. 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

[@cynthiaz9602]

And they paid so much money to get dumber. Literally a waste of time and money 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

[@zhou_sei]

it's dumb to hate war crimes? what a silly thing to say.

[@alexanderrobles8712]

Oh wow putting up a paper of the Palestine flag on your graduation will really stop the war 😂

[@mcqueenXO]

As will tearing up your diploma.😂

[@JBFranny]

​@@mcqueenXO 😂😂😂 it's like buying Nike merchandise to burn it.

[@brookiegremlin6660]

for a generation that invented the word "cringey," they sure are cringey.

[@tomrass1842]

US politicians are falling apart because a younger generation of Americans don’t watch heavily-bias media, won’t blindly support Israel, actually listen to what historians & experts say on the issue, and believe that Palestinians are also human beings. That’s their real problem.....

[@seedsowlife]

@@tomrass1842💯🎯

[@Sirius39170]

Lol 'Masters of Social Work'? And we're supposed to pay for her student loans?

[@seedsowlife]

Do you know if she even has loans? Or do you just want to spew BS?

[@lynnle54]

@@seedsowlifethis whole thing is BS. Let’s send all of them to see the Hamas that they love so much! See how long it will last.

[@diannafeliciano5208]

​@@seedsowlifeoh was she the only one we needed to worry about??

[@user-ec3gu6nc2q]

Yes you are!

[@seedsowlife]

@@diannafeliciano5208 don’t you worry about any of them, they’re doing just fine - educated young people who can and do think for themselves- future innovators, new industry creators, future employers.

[@jimmycain8669]

Shut this college down. No more government money for any colleges.

[@donpietruk1517]

They have an $18 billion dollar private endowment fund. You could withdraw all public funding and it wouldn't cause them to blink.

[@active1508]

@@donpietruk1517 I literally couldn't believe they actually posted that??? ROFLMAO!

[@jorgarb]

@@donpietruk1517 The NYPD needs to be paid $3 billion for the police work as well as police overtime. Legal action is comming.

[@donpietruk1517]

@@jorgarb Oh definitely. Columbia mishandled the situation so badly and forced the NYPD to sit around for days without doing anything. They could have broken this up when it started.

[@jorgarb]

@@donpietruk1517 There's going to be a lot of legal action coming. These are 20 year olds who don't know that they may be legally responsibly for the NYPD costs involved for the past 4 months. These universities and the students who have been arrested may be getting legal notices for $4 billion total for NYPD and other city govt expenses. These schools are going to careful who they admit from now on. No more DEI and affirmative action programs including Mandatory SAT test scores.

[@Feller1853]

Boy! They sure showed them! (as I roll my eyes)

[@leonardoortiz7112]

Boy, they sure are worried about your opinion (as I roll my eyes)

[@BH-kg1wu]

​@leonardoortiz7112 No one cares about your ignorant statement! However YOU have proven that my Theory on Global Stupidity is alive and well and that YOU are living proof of that and that isn't FAKE News!! I won't tear up your well earned diploma on Global Stupidity!!!

[@vancouverwatcher]

Hamas supporters in action. Where are the hostages ?

[@hmeidahmyed5762]

Dude talking always about mony😂😂have you ever heard a word called humanity 🤣pleas ch check dictionary🤣

[@evansusmc]

@@hmeidahmyed5762another spam comment??

[@LindaManes]

@@hmeidahmyed5762I guess you only have one comment to make that you feel covers everything… You should get a new one

[@MrBigHoss]

​@@LindaManesUkraine bots no speak mucho English

[@LindaManes]

@@MrBigHoss So sorry, didn’t realize you’re compromised by a language barrier…poor thing

[@tidasium1785]

Please send these people to the areas that they are protesting for so they know what they're getting themselves into.

[@sllaatt9264]

ur slow arent you

[@hmeidahmyed5762]

I advise all migrants descendants to go back to their original countries in Europe leaving indigenous red Indiens live peacefully in America 😅😅😅

[@Qa3Qa380]

You are one of the reason Hellfire was created

[@tomrass1842]

US politicians are falling apart because a younger generation of Americans don’t watch heavily-bias media, won’t blindly support Israel, actually listen to what historians & experts say on the issue, and believe that Palestinians are also human beings. That’s their real problem....

[@WAEVOICE]

@@sllaatt9264 Faster than these narcissists.

[@jaysonj9327]

Future Democrat voters doing future Democrat voter things.

[@Stonecrow25]

I forgot, who took billions from the house of Saudi and hates Jewish people?

[@elizandropedraza1286]

No a new party.🍉🇵🇸

[@Rick-np9vz]

They all have bright futures in the RCN ! You know the retrump conspiracy network! Formerly known as the Republican national council!

[@tomrass1842]

US politicians are falling apart because a younger generation of Americans don’t watch heavily-bias media, won’t blindly support Israel, actually listen to what historians & experts say on the issue, and believe that Palestinians are also human beings. That’s their real problem....

[@diannafeliciano5208]

​@@elizandropedraza1286the fruity terrorists party?

[@alaskaeric1038]

Joy Lind van Hasselt. Employers, remember her name and remember how she will treat your institution as her own personal political platform, instead of just taking care of business. Honey, you better change your name, now.

[@donpietruk1517]

Doesn't matter. Her face is in the cloud. She's digital now.

[@volume10industries...24_7]

You are advocating revenge and damage for standing up for their rights and for being in solidarity with Palestine?

[@urbanexplorer3059]

their parents must be so proud (sarcasm)

[@tomrass1842]

America supports apartheid and genocide. These brave students are the conscious of America. We all should be so proud of them.

[@seedsowlife]

I’m sure their parents are proud of them - they achieved their academic goals and maintained a moral heart. Brave students!

[@drzaius1121]

​@@seedsowlifethey skipped class, screamed like toddlers and support Hamas, there's so much for their poor parents to be ashamed of.

[@jorgarb]

@@seedsowlife DEI and affirmative action programs must be made illegal in this country. SAT college enterance exam must be mandatory from now on.

[@seedsowlife]

@@drzaius1121 you don’t know anything about what class they attended or skipped or anything else about these individuals, other than they protest in their own way against an apartheid genocidal regime. In addition, you don’t know anything about their parents so don’t pretend that you do.

[@erod9088]

Well, she didn't eat it, which appears to be a first for her.

[@Sirius39170]

😂

[@christophercipriano2314]

😂

[@IcerinAlaska49]

It's ok. They won't need those for their life long careers at Wendys or McDonalds😂😂

[@Honkers716]

Then I guess they don't need to put in for your social security check either

[@larssandvik1347]

@@Honkers716 OK reeree. Go find somewhere else to live.

[@drzaius1121]

​@@Honkers716no, they'll do as they're told if they want to be a part of the adult world.

[@halroxdynasty8683]

I think that's insulting to McDonalds employees. Even the most ignorant ones I know has more common sense than any of these highly educated kids 😂

[@QueenMar1ka]

@@halroxdynasty8683 How much fox news have you been watching? Have you talked to some fast food employees? I remembe how dumb they were when I was working there in HS.

[@margaretarross1712]

They'll be wanting those diplomas back later. Whining. Don't give them the time of day.

[@Sirius39170]

Reminds me of when John Kerry threw someone else's medals over the White House fence at a protest.

[@Rick-np9vz]

​@@Sirius39170at least John Kerry did his duties during a military conflict unlike a very popular draft dodger! And there's only one draft dodger in the presidential run off! Ohh that's right his daddy bought him a medical deferment !

[@20Manny]

If they cannot keep it professionally just imagine what they’re going to do in workplace. Pal. estine give me what I want otherwise I have the right to…

[@magnump.i.7700]

The same people complaining about the protestors would have been on Britain's side during the revolutionary war

[@cohenlabe1]

A woke brain is a broke brain

[@marktrain9498]

Deport.

[@Jessica_Roth]

Rip up your diploma, have your degree revoked. (This will never happen under the current Columbia administration, which has sold out for Qatari dinars. [China is likely funding the whole "destroy the West" project, but Qatar is the pipleine.] But it should.)

[@tomrass1842]

US politicians are falling apart because a younger generation of Americans don’t watch heavily-bias media, won’t blindly support Israel, actually listen to what historians & experts say on the issue, and believe that Palestinians are also human beings. That’s their real problem.....

[@maggiechan33]

The graduates can support Palestine and keep their diplomas simultaneously. You have NO proof China is "funding destroy the west"; China doesn't have to fund it, because the west is accelerating it's own decline, esp in Rafah.

[@maggiechan33]

Prove China is "funding the whole destroy the west project".

[@maggiechan33]

You just regurgitate biased media.

[@fredpagniello3267]

2025: To the UConn grad: You're hired! Go to the executive assistant program. To the Columbia garad: You're hired! Go to the lunch room and ask for Tony; he'll show you how to operate the Hobart dishwasher.

[@gailcarey3597]

Trying to be relevant. FYI - Your student loan payments will begin in six months. In addition you will be paying 50% of your future income because of your choice of leadership.

[@ParaRamma]

Its anti genocide. These people are brave. Its not political, not antisemetic. Its ethical.

[@Hiking_chef]

No revoke their diplomas .

[@Hiking_chef]

@@hmeidahmyed5762 where did I mention money

[@drzaius1121]

​@@hmeidahmyed5762humanity? Hamas terrorists attacks are not humane.

[@lightyear5732]

I wonder when they are going to tear the book that talks of marriage of a 55 yr old with a child!

[@mamdouhmorsy277]

They are anti war in Gaza , anti killing civilians

[@rft2001]

And that means keeping Hamas in Gaza so that there can never be any peace.

[@wateheckful]

Understood where they are coming from. But don't understand y is there a need to rip their certificates?? In the end, how does ripping their cert going to increase their chance in their job search??😅

[@ThisHandleIsNotAvailable.]

Psychosis doesn't care

[@Smarty2able]

@@ThisHandleIsNotAvailable. lol

[@hmeidahmyed5762]

Dude talking always about mony😂😂have you ever heard a word called humanity 🤣pleas ch check dictionary🤣

[@LindaManes]

Juvenile acting out…

[@JBFranny]

​@@hmeidahmyed5762 nothing else matters more. Money is time. Yes time is man made, so is money, but you obey it.

[@mrswolls]

She'll tear up the paper but she is still going to be paying that school loan and use her education to try to get a job so whats the difference

[@audemarssharr6154]

They will have fun at the mental asylum. As patients. Not employees.

[@BrownTrout1238]

What an impact statement!! “I’m obligated to walk my graduation ceremony, and pay $400 to have my 4 family members attend, but I’m going to zip tie my hands together when I walk across the stage and accept my degree” 😂

[@subterrain5293]

Am Israel chai.

[@George-Kliavkoff4Big12]

Maybe she should have majored in history

[@20Manny]

I stand with Israel 🇮🇱🕊

[@gillowens24]

No

[@sllaatt9264]

we get it you fw facism and genocide

[@losochentososdeloeste7464]

Yesss

[@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy]

Me too!!! Israel ❤❤❤

[@evansusmc]

@@gillowens24oh yes!

[@thesincitymama]

What’s the point of tearing up your diploma. You can easily just order another copy from student services. They’ll even send it internationally if you pay for shipping.

[@adamhg7040]

These students worked hard to earn their degrees and they have the right under the constitution for political expression. Above all that, however, they have the right to put pressure on their colleges to not invest in organisations and entities that are on trial for plausible genocide (actual though)

[@gillowens24]

Why handcuff this is werid

[@JBFranny]

It's her kink

[@azalia423]

They're afraid of protesters revealing their corruption and that of our Aipac bought government.

[@samanthacrump1976]

That’s what I was thinking. Then I started to think I want to see them trip and fall with their hands tied. 😂😂😂😂

[@galiaazouri1949]

Just to get attention...

[@kim-rr7ix]

Wrong 😑! De grace of education of America 🇺🇸… go back to Lebanon schools pls

[@fjigu82]

Go back to Europe I'm a native American and I don't want you in my land,creep

[@lswen2880]

They are the first generation entering Ivy without SAT. Ivy invited them in, so no one to blame.

[@cybersamurai4578]

These people are a lost cause 😞😞

[@rayustc]

it is so sad to see this outcomes of our education. such a waste of public resources.

[@CapAnson12345]

I really wish they could just announce after the ceremony that the university accepts their forfeiture of their degrees, and their entire tuition is non refundable. They are quite welcome to start over as a freshman and try again however.

[@x-armysarge]

From college to welfare, That's the type of employee you'll have if you hire them. It's o k to protest what you believe in but this is the video age.

[@mpf5381]

Neither mature or wise...

[@tamarathejudeochristianmedium]

Oy Vey! 💙🙏🏻💙

[@zippymufo9765]

No employer will ever hire them 😂

[@Laulaulawm]

I hope the university don't replace her diploma and make her retake all the classes with triple fees.

[@generalmortgagecapitalcorp638]

The massive student demonstration in HK is pro democracy, the massive student demonstrations at home is labeled either pro palestine or anti Israel? The mainstream media does not see this is pro democracy/humanitarian movement?

[@leatharay3565]

This is outrageous

[@LeniBats]

The easiest wat to solve this is to cancel commencement ceremonies and just mail everyone their diplomas. They can have their protests at home while filming their tiktoks.

[@robertsessoms]

She will regret this in 1-2 months

[@iDelta77]

Diplomas can be requested to be re-printed. What a stunt!

[@markpowers4395]

At least she knows the value of that diploma. Nada!

[@MilenaBlazanovic-oq2iy]

Woke tantrum

[@miketexas4549]

College protesters - the most insufferable form of the NPC

[@Elkcib]

She ripped up a social work degree not a nuclear physicist degree. Dollar store items are worth more.

[@moejoe138]

Screaming for people to be deported for exercising their first amendment rights is about the most un-American thing ever. You and i do not have to agree with what they are saying, but wanting their right to free speech revoked is just begging for it to be taken away from you too. Careful what you wish for.... "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." ~Evelyn Beatrice Hall

[@eddiekulp1241]

Tear up diplomas , later get replaced

[@jamessv5020]

Just for the record, tearing that diploma is purely for show. It costs about $100 to get an original replacement.

[@elainemoreland3908]

Ok, they are finished with college. They should go see for themselves that they support the wrong side.

[@bmanagement4657]

Why go somewhere the US backed side is killing innocents when protesting here has a much bigger impact????

[@KBM144]

They are not replacing her diploma, shes a fool 🤣

[@4seasonsTrucker]

Absolutely disgusting!

[@billzheng3954]

she dares to rip diploma, but i am sure she doesn't dare to not list her Columbia degree in her resume.

[@McSkirmish]

Means nothing considering they still paid 10s of thousands lol

[@terrydonohuejenkins9893]

Masters of social work is one if their degrees. so that means she was completely brainwashed

[@khon6339]

they'll be ok have rich parents families. can go brag about it & tell there friends & families they were in a movement revolutionary history

[@mattdooling9741]

Of course she grew up in San Francisco, where I grew up and would never go back to visit (Only live 26 miles away). Joy Lin van Hasselt San Francisco-27 yrs old $2.5 mil home. She is privileged. Went to an elite public school that has a waiting list to get in. You have history denialism.

[@chinyereukandu7527]

You would never see graduates of degrees like Engineering, Medicine, Science, Law, Finance, Accounting, Business and Technology do this nonsense. Js.

[@moeshamai5999]

4 years went down the drain 😂😂😂 hope she won't contact Admin to send her a copy of the degree 😂😂😂😂

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

Now she has other things to worry about; paying off her student loans with a minimum wage job.

[@BalanceChen87]

What a gesture of disrespect to her professors and fellow students. She should have thought of better ways to protest on this stage...

[@f9qo]

Such a disrespectful nudnik to the other students, teachers, and parents in attendance. Speaking of, I wonder how the parents feel? The ones that paid heavily, perhaps struggled, to see their kids have those pieces of paper, only to see them destroyed like that.

[@williesween8780]

Ripping up the quarter of a million dollars diploma that she paid for ? That will bring peace to the Middle East for sure. 🤦🏾‍♂

[@tomcollins5531]

They make Nancy pelosi proud.

[@JamesSmith-zj7fd]

You still need to pay back your student loans now with no diploma 😂

[@reidara1285]

The social work profession is a joke anyway but leaving it in the hands of foreign nationals- what can go wrong.

[@beadoll8025]

Just younger racists. They must be so proud 😒.

[@JBus1]

🙏What potential employers will do to her resume.

[@captainsmartass3368]

Can someone please explain to me how ripping up diplomas or master degree in North America going to Help anyone in the Hanas run Palestine

[@drakonas00]

So she tore up the ceremonial diploma? The real diplomas are mailed to your permanent address.

[@ATaylor-nd9ui]

I knew somebody was gonna do this it's like when people tried to politicize their country with showing the Mexican flag this is so ridiculous

[@vinnybauer4205]

Greetings, A free ticket to GAZA...congrats. Chief Ken Bauer, USAF (Ret)

[@fjigu82]

Greetings,a free ticket to Europe...congrats Native American the real owners of this land,get off of my land now

[@cliffdodson9409]

Disgraceful hope they never get a job.

[@maxsterling290]

In my eyes, Columbia social work grads are no better than Cal Poly Pomona civil engineering grads, at all.

[@Mikron20]

imagine doing all that work to get through college, and then tear up your diploma.

[@cato451]

That’s about all a DEI degree is worth anyway. Congratulations to her for demonstrating an Ivey league degree is worthless.

[@ayeletdar8948]

They must attach this video to their CV 😅

[@mem4086]

Brave kids using !!! Using there democratic rights !!!

[@5_birds]

Wow cool, like that'll change anything in the war 😂

[@lolblehXD]

yeah...they're not gonna be sought for employment now... keep oversea conflicts overseas

[@jonnyfendi2003]

U literally paid for the cap and gown. Why even bother going to the ceremony and protest outside the venue??? U literally gave the university more money.

[@danielmartin7838]

Social workers. If that doesn't inspire dread i dont know what would

[@amy8612]

Our future therapists…🙄

[@richardpark3054]

These newly minted MSW's will command 6-figure salaries! Six-figures including the cents, anyway

[@deca6087]

So glad they gave her name out. Joy, you just secured a position on the NO HIRE LIST.....FOREVER!!! Let's see how that ROI works for you.

[@Rich-yj4ub]

🤔 I was unaware you need a degree to work at Wendy's..😮😂

[@EMVelez]

How did you not know that since you’re obviously employed there yourself? 🤡

[@Rich-yj4ub]

@@EMVelez Did I mention I'm only 56. I could retire but I have a Sweet tooth for expensive toys. 😋

[@DCBJ2011]

2nd hand embarrassment

[@nycdweller]

Future government dependents. Who would hire them?

[@BH-kg1wu]

This is a message to all recruiters and hiring managers...DON'T HIRE TARSIS SALOME!!