Megha Vemuri called out MIT for having research ties with the Israeli army and "aiding and abetting" the country with its "assault on the Palestinian people."
  • FreeWilliam@lemmy.ml
    681·
    7 days ago

    “You showed the world that MIT wants a free Palestine”.

    “You called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and you stood in solidarity with the pro-Palestine activists on campus. You faced threats, intimidation, and suppression coming from all directions, especially your own university officials, but you prevailed because the MIT community that I know would never tolerate a genocide."

    “Right now, while we prepare to graduate and move forward with our lives, there are no universities left in Gaza…We are watching Israel try to wipe Palestine off the face of the earth, and it is a shame that MIT is a part of it.”

    “This means that Israel’s assault on the Palestinian people is not only aided and abetted by our country, but our school. As scientists, engineers, academics, and leaders, we have a commitment to support life, support aid efforts, and call for an arms embargo, and keep demanding, now as alumni, that MIT cuts the ties,"

  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
    271·
    6 days ago

    Would they ban the person if it was a pro Israel speech?

    If no, then the school admins can fuck right off

    • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      141·
      5 days ago

      it’s not “pro palestine”, it’s not “anti israel”,
      it’s anti genocide of palestinians by israelis…
      they try to keep framing it as that, as some nationalist thing….

      • dumptruck@lemmings.world
        42·
        5 days ago

        No, no I am certainly anti-Israel as well; I now fully believe the country should be gone away with like was done in Africa whenever they won their independence back.

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
    131·
    5 days ago

    First they ignore you,

    then they laugh at you,

    then they fight you, <-- you are here

    then you win.

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
    27·
    6 days ago

    Self censoring is not the answer… Come on MIT, you know better.

    Well, now that I say that, MIT has a not perfect track record when it comes to legal matters and policy decisions. I think of Aaron Swartz for instance…

  • hakase@lemm.eeEnglish
    59·
    7 days ago

    Kinda brilliant on the class president’s part - still give the speech and get the media coverage for it, but do it before commencement so they’re less likely to steal your diploma as a result.

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
    163·
    6 days ago

    Wow that’s pathetic, so theres no distinction left between MIT and that Bible belt shit hole university that didn’t let a student graduate after she came out as gay

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
    15·
    6 days ago

    Whenever I try to believe things aren’t bad and that I am delusional for learning how to gun, stuff like this happens. My hopes for a peaceful and boring future are dying.

    • nimisnimi@lemmy.ca
      315·
      5 days ago

      Wow, that’s a lot of hatred against a country and a nation. “Genoside” claims, several times. Still no mentions of how this yet another war started on the 7th of October. 🤦

      • Zenith@lemm.ee
        31·
        5 days ago

        No one is upset that Israel wanted to do something about being attacked, but what’s happening is so wildly disproportionate. If hamas did that in any other country and that country decided to go full scorched earth in retaliation no one would support that yet somehow a single attack justifies what’s going on now?? If someone eggs your house do you hunt them down, burn down their house, kill them then do the same to all their relatives?? No obvious that’s insane and that’s essentially what’s happening here, the attack was wrong but two wrongs do not make a right and the force of the response is so far above uncalled for

        • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          5 days ago

          They know. They’re being purposefully disingenuous and dimwitted. We all know that white phosphorus has rained from the skies since 2005. We know that every inch of settler encroachment was paid for with blood sacrifice not by the settler, but with the blood of the native people of the region, and this is all perpetrated as a holocaust on the altar of Zionism.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    32·
    3 days ago

    make a list of all these fascists. people must not forget those who stood firmly on the side of genocide.

    edit: you don’t need to make distinguishing marks on their clothes when they’re already wearing the swastika armband. “oh please don’t mistreat the fascists, that makes you a fascist!”

    • nimisnimi@lemmy.ca
      32·
      4 days ago
      make a list of all these fascists.

      Is that your next suggestion, omg: “Let them wear special distinguishing marks on their clothes too. Like, some kind of a star sign”?!

      /S

      That’s seriously creepy, dude.

      • pyre@lemmy.world
        22·
        4 days ago

        fucking yes. if you allow fascists and collaborators to just dust off their hands and pretend nothing happened once the regime comes down, you’re just setting the timer back until the next fascist regime.

        they’re collaborating with the regime now, and once it’s gone, they will all have always opposed it.

        no. you have to remember all of them. no quarter for fascists. no excuse for collaborators.

  • Zenith@lemm.ee
    21·
    5 days ago

    Couldn’t have been worse than the cringefest speech Hank Green gave that’s for sure

    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      Yes why use your platform to bring attention to a genocide in an aperthide state, at great risk to you when you can just step in line and bend the knee to appease some cunts