The University of California’s cancellation of the graduation speech of their valedictorian, a South Asian Muslim, over alleged “security concerns” is raising alarms over campus free speech amid a climate of growing tension related to Israel’s war on Gaza. Asna Tabassum, a biomedical engineering student who also has a minor on “Resistance to Genocide”, was chosen as her class’s valedictorian based on her academic performance. Though she doesn’t have a history of actively engaging in Middle East politics, she has in the past shared a handful of posts (usually written by someone else) expressing…