After calls for her to be banned from speaking, Arab-American activist Linda Sarsour drew only a handful of protesters as she gave the commencement address at CUNY’s Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy Thursday.
A group of about half a dozen anti-Sarsour demonstrators gathered outside the ceremony at the Apollo Theater in Harlem — but were dwarfed by a crowd of nearly two dozen Sarsour supporters.
Inside, there were no disruptions as Sarour — who helped organize January’s anti-Trump Woman’s March — talked about fighting for social injustice.
“We made it! I made it here, and you already know it’s been a more than a eventful experience for me, and I’m still standing and still unapologetically Muslim-American, Palestinian-American and from Brooklyn, New York!” Sarsour shouted.
Jewish groups had called on Gov. Cuomo to ban Sarsour from speaking because of her support for the movement to boycott and divest from Israel over its treatment of Palestinians.
CUNY officials said that, on free-speech grounds, they stand by the graduate school’s decision to select Sarsour.