Will Sussman
NY Post, July 1, 2025
“One staff member sent a mass email painting me as a racist. My mother worried I would be killed.”
Before Oct. 7, 2023, I was the literal poster boy for a PhD student at MIT. I was featured in a July 2023 profile in MIT News, which relayed my background and aspirations.
“Although he has just two years of graduate school under his belt,” it said, “Sussman is considering a career in academia.”
That career is no longer available to me. In January, I left MIT because of the antisemitism I experienced on campus. Now I’m suing the university.
The antisemitism didn’t start on Oct. 7. I joined the board of MIT Grad Hillel during my first year on campus because, as I told MIT News, “I think it’s important to demonstrate Jewish culture at a time when antisemitism is on the rise.”
Three months after the profile was published, Hamas terrorists waged the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust — and my fellow students at MIT celebrated, posting, “Victory is ours.” ….SOURCE