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‘There’s Nothing Brave About What I’m Doing.’ John Fetterman Stands with Israel.
“Profoundly disappointed” by his alma mater, Harvard University, Senator John Fetterman removed the crimson hood from his robe while delivering his Yeshiva University commencement address. (Screen grab via @safier/X)
Before delivering the commencement address at Yeshiva University, Israel’s ‘single greatest friend’ in Washington spoke to The Free Press.
By Peter Savodnik
05.30.24 — Education
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At its graduation Wednesday, Yeshiva University—America’s “flagship Jewish university,” as its president, Rabbi Ari Berman, put it—honored Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman with its Presidential Medal for Global Leadership for his support of Israel.

Like the other administrators at Louis Armstrong Stadium in Flushing, Queens, Fetterman arrived at the c…

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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