”We have let life go on, let business go on as usual, while a genocide has been broadcast to us for months”
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge is the latest university in which students are protesting their school’s ties to Israel by establishing an 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,” 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.
”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 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, Riccio-Ackerman has “engaged in anti-Israel activism and demonized Israel during a war against Hamas terrorists in late 2023 and early 2024.”
“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…
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