MIT Suspends Anti-Israel Group Over University Policy Violations
“The point of these policies is to make sure that members of the MIT community can work, learn and do their research on campus without disruption.”
Is MIT just playing a game of CYA here? They have been under scrutiny since the congressional hearings.
Campus Reform reports:
MIT bars anti-Israel group from operating on campus, citing policy violations
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology suspended an anti-Israel gorup, saying the group violated university policies.
In a video posted to social media, MIT President Sally Kornbluth said that the Coalition Against Apartheid held an unauthorized demonstration Monday, prompting the suspension.
The Coalition Against Apartheid, under the suspension, won’t be permitted to reserve space on campus, use MIT facilities, receive university funding and won’t be allowed to hold any protest or demonstrations on campus.
Kornbluth said the suspension isn’t related to anything speech-related.
”I want to be clear that suspending the CAA is not related to the content of their speech. I fully support the right of everyone on our campus to express their views,” Kornbluth said.
”However, we have clear, reasonable ‘time, place and manner’ policies in place – for a good reason! The point of these policies is to make sure that members of the MIT community can work, learn and do their research on campus without disruption. We also need to keep the community safe – and we can’t do that without enough advance notice to organize staff and police resources. That’s why we have the rules,” she added.
The MIT president added that while “universities have been the site of protest movements at many times in history,” there are rules.
The Coalition Against Apartheid accused MIT of applying a “double standard.”
”Today, the MIT administration suspended the Coalition Against Apartheid for fighting for Palestinian liberation. They have further issued sanction letters to 13 student organizers threatening us with permanent suspension. For over four months, the MIT administration has continued to silence our voices by applying a double standard to our actions. We have held peaceful protest after peaceful protest in response to the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli occupation in Palestine,” the group wrote.
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Turnabout is fair play department: If the tactics the Pali Protestors applied to others were applied to the Pali Protesters, rest assured that the Pali Protestors would be crying to the administration for a crackdown on those protesting the Pali Protestors.
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