More than 1,000 Emory University students say their commencement speaker is an anti-Semite. The students and some academic staff have signed an online petition accusing Mary Robinson, the former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, of being anti-Semitic and fomenting hostility toward Israel.
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