Does that title surprise you? Maybe shock you? Are you at least a little skeptical about it’s veracity?
Well, read this tweet, from MIT Professor Retsef Levi, along with the letter it introduces. Then we’ll talk:
This is the reality that MIT President wants to hide.
A letter from Israeli & Jewish MIT students:
To all students at MIT,
Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA.
This is after students from the CAA harassed MIT staff members in their offices for being Jewish and interrupted classes in the past few weeks. All of this has occurred with no clear response from the administration. With each passing day, MIT admin’s silence makes Jewish and Israeli students feel unsafe at MIT.
Many Jewish students fear leaving their dorm rooms and have stated that they feel MIT is not safe for Jews. This message is compounded by the public and private warnings of Hillel and many faculty that Jewish students should not enter MIT’s main lobby today, November 9th, 2023.
Instead of dispersing the mob or de-escalating the situation by rerouting all students from Lobby 7, Jewish students specifically were warned not to enter MIT’s front entrance due to a risk to their physical safety. The onus to protect Jewish students should not be on the students themselves.
MIT administration recently announced guidelines to avoid illegal and unsafe protests on campus.
The CAA, which planned the protest, knowingly and proudly violated these requirements, and even invited people from outside of MIT to join them. Their actions inhibit the possibility of safe and peaceful dialogue and endanger Jewish students on campus. The CAA hosted a blockade that not only disregards MIT guidelines, but also obstructs Jewish students from attending classes.
Some Jewish students who saw the administration’s failure to respond to the targeted harassment of Jews on campus by the CAA came together to support each other and peacefully together stand against this threat to their safety.
Four hours after the blockade started, at 12 pm, the MIT administration passed a letter to all students, threatening their suspension if the crowds did not disperse from Lobby 7. Only the Jewish students left immediately. The CAA protesters did not cooperate. Indeed, the CAA proceeded to invite more students and non-MIT protestors to join them in calling for a violent uprising (“Intifada”) and justifying the terror attacks of Hamas on Israeli civilians.
At 5 pm, all students on campus were warned through MIT’s emergency notification system to “avoid Lobby 7” –– officially recognizing the danger present to students as a result of this violent protest. No Jewish or Israeli students were present at this point.
As of 10:30 tonight MIT has officially decided not to academically suspend CAA students who repeatedly violated the administration’s guidelines and threats. They have shown that actions against Jews at MIT do not have consequences. Additionally, in an email to DUSP students, the Department Head indicated that he would protect any DUSP students involved in violating MIT’s rules today by protesting with the CAA. Not only do Jewish students feel unsafe on campus, but now they also feel excluded from and unsafe in DUSP.
Today, on the 9th of November, on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, which marked the beginning of the Holocaust, Jews at MIT were told to enter campus from back entrances and not to stay in Hillel for fear of their physical safety.
We are seeing history repeating itself and Jews on MIT’s campus are afraid. Signed, The MIT Israel Alliance and its supporters
Signed,
The MIT Israel Alliance and its supporters
Ok, you’ve seen it. Now how do you feel? Are you shocked to find out that MIT – like a great many other so-called elite colleges and universities – is knuckling under to the intolerant, hate-filled left?
If so, WHY???? This has been going on in one form or another for YEARS.
How many times have you read about politically non-leftist – especially conservative – speakers being either completely blocked from these universities, or allowed to start speaking but disrupted so completely they might as well not have shown up – thus leaving students exposed to exactly one side of things?
Why would you think it might be any different when it comes to Israel?
Israel is a shining light in the middle east and the world; a wellspring of tolerance and peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs (who comprise 20% of Israel’s population and have more rights and privileges – especially women – than Arabs in virtually every Arab country on earth). Israel is the source of so much progress in science, technology and agriculture that my fingers would hurt too much to enumerate them all (click here for just a partial list and see for yourself). And (gasp!) it is also prosperous and governmentally stable.
In other words, Israel is a winner. A big, big one.
And the left – the intolerant, hate-filled left – hates few things more than winners.
So they attack every chance they get. Even when Israel’s actions are a direct reaction to the slaughter of 1,200 – 1,400 of its civilians by a group of terrorist savages, specifically committed to annihilating their country and killing every Jew – and who then hide behind their own civilian population like the cowards they are.
MIT is pathetic. Shameful. And, sad to say, not at all atypical of the “elite” schools that have allowed the hard left to fester, grow and dominate within their academic bubbles.
When will it start to change back to sanity? WILL it start to change back to sanity at all?
That, folks, is the question that remains unanswered.
Frankly, I’m not confident it will happen any time soon. But I would love to be surprised in the positive.
Maybe…………..
