MIT Shuts Down Student-Run Anti-Israel Magazine After it Appears to Support Violence
“Numerous community members have expressed concern for their safety and well-being after learning of your article.”
MIT has been a surprising hotbed of antisemitic activity over the last year.
The College Fix reports:
MIT bans pro-Palestinian student magazine after it appears to support violence
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has shut down a student group’s pro-Palestinian magazine due to “several troubling statements.”
In an email to the group, school administrators banned the students from distributing the magazine on campus. Administrators stated “that if the publication continues to be distributed there, it must remove all affiliation with MIT,” the Washington Examiner reported.
The school specifically raised concerns about an article in the October issue that student Prahlad Iyengar, the magazine’s editor, authored.
The piece, titled “On Pacivism,” critiques pacifist movements and argues the pro-Palestinian movement must “begin wreaking havoc,” Inside Higher Ed reported.
“The article makes several troubling statements that could be interpreted as a call for more violent or destructive forms of protest at MIT,” school leaders stated in their email. “Numerous community members have expressed concern for their safety and well-being after learning of your article.”
Further, they stated the article violated a school policy that prohibits “threats, intimidation, coercion, and other conduct that can be reasonably, objectively construed to threaten or endanger the mental or physical health or safety of any person.”
Students are no longer distributing the magazine and “Iyengar is facing disciplinary action,” Inside Higher Ed reported.
Iyengar, a Ph.D. student, had been penalized for his involvement in a pro-Palestinian demonstration last spring, and his disciplinary case was ongoing when the article was published. The new charges will be incorporated into his ongoing conduct case.
The school also took issue with some images in the magazine, as they included symbols of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S.
“The inclusion of symbolism from a U.S. designated terrorist organization containing violent imagery in a publication by an MIT-recognized student group is deeply concerning,” the administrators stated.
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MIT is no longer the pinnacle it was once held to be in ’50; IMHO it should return to 100% STEM; then again, so few are these days.
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