MIT is Latest School to Have Pro-Hamas, Anti-Israel ‘Encampment’ on Campus
”We have let life go on, let business go on as usual, while a genocide has been broadcast to us for months”
This is like Occupy Wall Street all over again, right down to the tents.
Campus Reform reports:
ANOTHER ONE: MIT anti-Israel activists form ‘Scientists Against Genocide Encampment’
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge is the latest university in which students are protesting their school’s ties to Israel by establishing an encampment on campus.
According to MIT Ph.D. student activist Francesca Riccio-Ackerman via X, a group of students have created the “Scientists Against Genocide Encampment” on the university’s Kresge Lawn.
”We have let life go on, let business go on as usual, while a genocide has been broadcast to us for months,” a shared statement from Riccio-Ackerman’s X post reads. “Meanwhile, MIT has received OVER $11 MILLION in research funding from the Ministry of Defense of Israel since 2015. Multiple labs on this campus are performing are performing sponsored research for the material benefit of the Israeli Occupation Forces.”
”To MIT, we charge you in the brutal genocide of the Palestinian people for your explicit role in providing scientific and technological support for the Israeli Occupation Forces’ and their crimes,” the statement continues.
The message notes that “We [students] are what makes MIT the place it is,” while maintaining that they will “NOT REST until MIT cuts research ties with the Israeli military.”
Apparently co-authored by various anti-Israel student organizations like the MIT Coalition against Apartheid, the shared statement praises the “solidarity encampments” at other schools like Columbia University and Yale University.
According to the anti-Semitic watchdog Canary Mission, Riccio-Ackerman has “engaged in anti-Israel activism and demonized Israel during a war against Hamas terrorists in late 2023 and early 2024.”
Breaking: The students and workers of #MIT establish the Scientists Against Genocide Encampment on MIT’s Kresge Lawn
“MIT has received OVER $11 MILLION in research funding from the Ministry of Defense of Israel since 2015…. We will NOT REST until MIT cuts research ties with the… pic.twitter.com/phEb0pZCnF
— Francesca Riccio-Ackerman (@still_francesca) April 22, 2024
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“The message notes that “We [students] are what makes MIT the place it is,”
Wishful thinking from narcissists.
For every seat vacated by one of your dumb asses, there are five students waiting in the wings who will honor it better than you have. When they carry home the Brass Rat and get the great jobs, and you are selling “fire insurance” in Dearborn, remember what makes MIT MIT.
They’re right. And the students who managed to build a Volkswagen on top of the Building 10 dome (overlooking the current site of the Hamas encampment) were what made MIT what it was then.
Two very different places. We have to realize that the old MIT no longer exists, and stop granting it the credibility it earned in its former state.
It’s a federal land-grant institution. That’s our land that the Hamas supporters are camping upon.
One of you may know this, and I’d like to know: how many Styrofoam courses and/or majors does MIT offer?
I suspect most of the troublemakers are not real students.
Huh, I answered the second half of this question just yesterday.
Yes, you did, and I didn’t remember that. My apologies.
I am less sanguine about it than Harry. There is now a “poets” track through the General Institute Requirements; formerly there was just normal and enriched for kids who are absurdly well prepared / gifted. And if there’s only Humanities, well there is Humanities and it’s available. (There’s also Architecture off the top of my head.) Within humanities the scholarship level isn’t all that great, but leftism is strong and, since there’s no offset, it may run things. Under the last president (much worse than Sally Kornbluth) MIT was on track to promote a black antiracist “scholar” to a vice-president position. It’s not uncommon for kids to be admitted for DEI reasons into a top level school, then they find they have to major in grievance studies because everything else is too hard. But they do that and they end up with that prestige university degree, and probably a career in the grievance industry.
MIT isn’t as hard as it once was. The real stuff is available, but they’ve watered down not only the GIR but also some majors. Physics at MIT now has an easier pathway that it didn’t have back in the day. In Math there used to be one Real Analysis course (which was actually a lot about point-set topology; you were thrown in the deep end and tried to stay afloat, the usual experience of almost everything at MIT.) Now there are 3 levels of Real Analysis, and the hardest of the 3 levels is like the old course.
Thank you. It’s all so sad.
I meant by being as leftist and antisemitic as the Ivy League schools.
For those of you who would like MIT to know your thoughts on this subject:
“To help us understand … what steps can be taken to restore peace and harmony, the MIT Students for Open Inquiry is hosting a talk featuring Pastor Joe Green of Eagles’ Wings, who has been an activist in the field, and Talia Khan, president of the MIT Israeli Alliance. This event takes place next Thursday (4/25) from 5 to 7 pm” (Eastern)
You can RSVP to attend this event via Zoom here.
You can attend the Zoom presentation here.
Is MIT trying to get admitted into the Ivy League?
Hell no.
And need to field a football team? Uhn uhn!
Admitted to the Ivy League? It’s a little too late for that.
Yours is a question not many have asked. It’s MIT that provided Harvard with its computer expertise back in the early days. Each has its own history and goals.
the blmplo grade average is 4.0……….
in communism
Of course, at MIT, a perfect GPA is 5.0.
And this was before Spinal Tap.