by WKRC
Student reportedly booed by parents during graduation speech (News 12 Long Island, The Wheatley School, Huda Ayaz, CNN/CNN Newsource)
(WPDE) OLD WESTBURY, N.Y. (WKRC/News 12 Long Island/CNN Newsource) – A high school student says she was booed by parents while speaking at graduation.
17-year-old Huda Ayaz says she was in shock over what a group of parents said to her following a commencement speech she gave.
“I had adults coming at me aggressively, shouting at me,” she said.
Wearing a hijab under her graduation cap, the Muslim-American student made a comment asking people to “Educate yourselves about international dilemmas including the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and Uyghur Muslims. Families are continuously torn apart and real human lives are being lost but ignored.”
Shortly thereafter, as she received her diploma, someone at the event said, “Why didn’t you say anything about Hamas?”
Hamas is a Palestinian Islamic militant group which is at war with Israel.
Ayaz also says she was also booed and told to go back to Pakistan.
“It was incredibly overwhelming. My entire family was shocked by how aggressive they were being and how they were coming towards us like that,” she said.
