The crowd wildly cheered as police removed pro-Palestine protesters for disrupting the University of Michigan commencement ceremony on Saturday.
According to the Associated Press, arrests have not been made and the protesters were seen wearing keffiyehs along with their mortarboards. The ceremony in Ann Arbor at Michigan Stadium was attended by tens of thousands of people.
One commencement speaker, U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, tried to ignore the chants of the protesters by telling the crowd, “Ladies and gentlemen, if you can please draw your attention back to the podium.”
Footage of the pro-Palestinian protesters wearing symbols of Palestinian nationalism went viral online following the ceremony.
“Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest,” the protesters chanted. “Regents, regents, you can’t hide! You are funding genocide!”
One crowd member could reportedly be heard shouting back at the protesters, “You’re ruining our graduation!”
