MIT Israel Alliance
MIT Faculty Newspaper, November/December 2023vol. Xxxvi No. 2
“It is not just students who are bullying and ostracizing Jews and Israelis on campus. At a public campus event, the MIT Interfaith Chaplain reportedly diverted the group discussion four times to assert that Palestinians are “wrongfully subjugated and oppressed by racist white European colonizers,” and then made any student who keeps kosher raise their hand so they could get a kosher meal.”
Social movements come in many forms and have different purposes. Some serve to advance the collective welfare of humanity by bringing us together. Others dehumanize their opposition to advance their own ideologies. In the wake of the recent Hamas terror attack, a movement of the second type began to dominate life on MIT’s campus.
On October 7th, Hamas terrorists slaughtered over 1,200 people in Israel – Jews, Muslims, Arabs, and others alike. Hamas raped teenagers, burned babies, and took more than 240 people hostage. Some of the victims of the October 7th attack are directly related to members of our community here at MIT.
In the wake of the largest killing of Jews since the Holocaust and one of the worst terrorist attacks in modern history, Jews and Israelis on campus desperately needed time and space to mourn. Instead, we were met immediately with victim blaming and callous epithets. On October 8th, every undergraduate student at MIT received an email claiming the “Israeli regime” was “responsible for all unfolding violence.” One student group helped organize a “Victory is Ours” rally, where protestors from around Cambridge and Boston celebrated the murder and terror carried out in Israel. … [To read the full article, click here]