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New York University (NYU) has withheld the diploma of graduating student Logan Rozos after he used his commencement speech to denounce US support for what he called a "genocide in Gaza."

Rozos, an undergraduate at NYU, said during a graduation ceremony on Wednesday that he condemned "the atrocities currently happening in Palestine," a statement that drew both applause and standing ovations as well as boos from the audience.

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