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I was Chased Out of MIT — and It Was All Because I’m Jewish

Campus Anti-Semitism Becomes Mainstream Issue- FLICKR
Campus Anti-Semitism Becomes Mainstream Issue- FLICKR

 

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

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