MIT disciplines student commencement speaker who condemned school’s ties to Israel as ‘complicit in genocide’
Story by Andrew Lapin • 17h
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(JTA) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has barred the senior class president from further graduation events after she accused the school of aiding “genocide” in Gaza and called for the university to sever its ties to Israel during her commencement address Thursday.
Megha Vemuri also praised her classmates for demonstrating on behalf of Gaza, telling them, “You showed the world that MIT wants a free Palestine.”
Vemuri’s speech offered at least the third instance this year of a student commencement speaker at an elite school using their platform to condemn Israel and their school’s ties to it. New York University and George Washington University, where two previous incidents occurred, also each took steps to discipline their speakers following the ceremonies.
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