Hi, Jewish MIT student here. No protestors on MIT campus have called for Jewish genocide despite Rep. Stefanik’s twisted, opportunistic insistence.
And just wondering, does Stanford also unequivocally condemn the actual groundwork being laid for the genocide of Palestinians?
In the context of the national discourse, Stanford unequivocally condemns calls for the genocide of Jews or any peoples. That statement would clearly violate Stanford’s Fundamental Standard, the code of conduct for all students at the university.
Many Jewish MIT students were in the crowd protesting our school’s complicity in the ethnic cleansing and starvation of Gaza. Your disregard for Jewish voices that are inconvenient for your narrative is antisemitic. We are not all the same.
Now on
@MIT
campus!
Members & supporters of the CAA Hamas supporter student organization, 'suspended' by MIT, blocking the main entrance to campus & calling for violence!
This is very close to students housing of many Jewish students who weren't warned by MIT administration!
The movement of Jews standing for collective liberation is growing and will keep growing. For the first time in my life, I have been able to see a place for myself inside of Jewish spaces. I feel newly connected to Judaism, which has been practiced by my family for millennia. I’m
I went to Columbia, and was active daily in Jewish life on campus.
This gives me so much joy and pride ❤️🦁
Via
@TheIndypendent
:
"Jewish students celebrate Shabbat in song at the Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment."
What has happened is that Jewish protestors like me who have stood in solidarity with other organizations calling for the end of the endless slaughter of innocent Palestinians have been called “Hamas”, “not real Jews”, and been told that “G-d made a mistake having us born Jews”.
Notably, there is video of counter-protestors chanting “Hey hey, Ho ho, Palestinians have got to go.” Maybe congress can investigate that and determine whether or not it’s genocidal.
But I’m really glad Stanford could step in here to make sure that everyone knows that, were these imagined calls for Jewish genocide at protests calling for peace and the end of a military occupation real, they would not be tolerated.
Just waiting for all the free speech defenders to step in and question why one man, whose power comes purely from private wealth accumulation, is leading the charge to fire university presidents for failing to sufficiently restrict speech.
I wouldn’t want to be a member of the board of the university who goes last in dismissing its president.
They already have all of the information they need to be decisive about this decision.
Breaking: The students and workers of
#MIT
establish the Scientists Against Genocide Encampment on MIT’s Kresge Lawn
“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
@TheLeadCNN
@jaketapper
Has anyone on
@jaketapper
’s team followed up on the statement from Jewish students who disputed the accounts provided by Talia and her peers? We released a public statement disputing their claims based on our direct experiences throughout the day.
Seems problematic, but hey, I’m just a Jewish MIT student being subjected to harassment for calling for a ceasefire. So glad that all of the Republican members of Congress, who align themselves with white nationalists and flirt with antisemitic tropes, are here to protect me!
@AbbyChavaStein
Thanks for everything you are doing! I wish it hadn’t taken a genocide in Gaza to make it clear how many of us there really are. But I’m grateful all the same.
I’m proud of all of my fellow students who are fighting for justice despite the complete lack of support shown by the Institute. Your attempts to distract from our legitimate calls for ceasefire and divestment are pathetic.
Meanwhile, while an MIT professor is on here claiming protests on campus calling for ceasefire and liberation from neverending occupation are somehow threats to Jewish student safety, this is happening. I wish people would at least have some shame if they can’t find compassion.
Heavy bombing in Khan Younis and Rafah. A lot of massacres right now. Families are screaming, are trapped in their houses, some are dead inside. I have a recording of the heavy bombing and gunfire.
Please help stop this.
The MIT Jews for Ceasefire have released our new statement on the attempts to silence the voices of dissenting Jews, Palestinians, and all other allies on campus. Please read.
New statement by MIT Jews for Ceasefire - a group of Jewish and Israeli students at MIT.
“We do not believe that supporting Palestinians means wishing for the destruction of Israelis. We disavow the ahistorical narrative pushed by MIT [Israel Alliance]. We will not let our grief
Thanks to
@HadasThier
for covering attempts to shutdown anti-war protestors, including the experience of our very own MIT Jews for Ceasefire, fighting for ceasefire in Gaza and the end to the Israeli occupation.
Horrified by Israel’s actions and dismayed by their own administrations, students are protesting on campuses across the country.
@HadasThier
looks at the actions of university admins and how students are reacting.
Watching Jewish institutions cozy up to rightwing politicians who count Neo-Nazis as friends has been one of many disturbing developments over the past few momths. We, MIT Jews for Ceasefire, are making the case that solidarity is the only way forward to a world where we can all
Read our new statement in The Tech, On Jewish Activism, Safety, and Recent Events at MIT! We welcome anyone in the MIT community who may be questioning how to interpret or respond to events on campus, to reach out to us to start a conversation.
Cool that you have no problem slandering students who were in your class. This behavior is almost as embarrassing as having your antivax beliefs in your pinned tweet.
Who at
@MIT
Institute's Community & Equity Office thought it's good idea to invite to MLK Gala, a student speaker that is member of CAA (suspended organization) & central participant in antisemite unapproved campus protests?
Who at MIT News thought it's fine to endorse the
🚨The Israeli military demolishes Al-Isra University in
#Gaza
City, erasing it from existence, aiming to make life impossible in Gaza on all fronts !
The destruction of vital infrastructure is devastating for the people of Gaza !
@IBJIYONGI
We’ve been trying to point this out at MIT. Jewish students are being harassed by Zionist organizations on campus. We’re constantly being told that we are so persecuted that it’s unsafe to go to class. It’s absurd.
This is so important for understanding how Israel got to the point where they have soldiers broadcasting their evil to the entire world every day. The cooption of Jewish grief and the cynical deployment of fear are crucial elements that have brought Israel to its present form.
One of the best things I’ve read since October 7th, and one of Mishra’s best essays over the years. Impossible to pluck out a line or two. Just read it:
BREAKING: Hours before the annual White House Hanukkah party, 18 Jewish elders chain themselves to the White House gates demanding
@POTUS
stop funding and arming the genocide in Gaza.
Follow
@JewishElders
for more
MIT is kowtowing to racist, bad faith actors attempting to take down DEI initiatives in order to avoid criticisms from the same biased media outlets who refuse to cover the daily massacres in Gaza with regularity and accuracy.
MIT wants you to believe that it values its Jewish students, but their actions show that they are only willing to support those who don’t criticize Israel.
Read the full open letter at
I am haunted by the knowledge that our imagined “sustainable” future relies on electrification and batteries that require extraction and mining and continued economic colonialism. We desperately need to consume less, but the growth machine continues on.
This is what 40,000 child slaves look like while working in the cobalt mines of Congo. You don't need to upgrade your cellphone every year, maybe you shouldn't buy that electric car you were thinking about buying and vapes aren't good for our health anyway
This is one of many reasons why we protest. Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest! Sad that only students are able to see that a better world is possible, but only if we make it so. By freeing Palestine, we will liberate ourselves.
700 bodies now discovered at Nasser hospital alone (1,500 uncovered at Al Shifa), patients, some with catheters still attached, children, with hands still bound, doctors and nurses, still wearing their scrubs, many shot in the back of the head at point blank range execution-style
Hundreds of bodies have been recovered over the past two days from a mass grave established by the Israeli army at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
It did NOT make a single headline in mainstream media.
The Western media is biased and unethical.
The
@EuroMedHR
documented around
@Isaachimmelman
@AsadFromNYC
I’m a Jewish New Yorker who has worked with IfNotNow and JVP I’m Boston. These organizations are on the institutional fringe, but 38% of Jews under 40 nationally believe Israel is an apartheid state.
This is what hunger looks like in Gaza.
Thousands of displaced Palestinians desperate for flour engulf an aid truck that entered northern Gaza.
Starvation is now a weapon of war. Starvation is now a weapon of genocide.
Being a Jewish member of protests for Palestinian Liberation has been hard enough, but we've always known that our experiences pale in comparison to the experience of our Palestinian friends struggling for people to see them and their families as human beings.
It’s also part of the greater Republican Party project to discredit institutions of higher learning. They’re really trying to kill two critical birds with one stone.
The campaign to depose the presidents of Penn, Harvard + MIT is a campaign to restrict pro-Palestinian speech on campus. If you support it, please have the decency never to sermonize about free speech, academic freedom or cancel culture again.
This is incredibly unnerving. My president doesn't feel that I will ever be safe in my own country and his solution is to send me to Israel where I would objectively be in greater danger? What other minority populations would be safer elsewhere?
“Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world that is safe,” Biden says at the White House Hanukkah party as he reaffirms support for Israel against its war against Hamas.
@moorehn
The complete abdication of responsibility to even acknowledge reality and reconsider the de facto course of action is stunning. They’re not even trying.
Israeli attacks have killed more than 18,000 Palestinians and injured another 49,500. More than a third of homes are destroyed. Israeli destruction of crucial civilian infrastructure is rendering the place uninhabitable by design. All eyes on Gaza!
Rachel Corrie was murdered by the IDF in Rafah 21 years ago. I admire her conviction and dedication and I wish she were still here to bring her moral clarity to the movement for Palestine in the United States.
21 years ago, Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to stop the illegal demolition of a Palestinian family’s home in Gaza.
Today, her parents are carrying on her work through the Rachel Corrie Foundation, organizing and lobbying for Palestinian rights.
How can people be expected to live like this? There can never be peace in Israel-Palestine while families are attacked in their homes by would-be colonizing settlers. How can Israelis not see the illegitimacy of their state while this is occurring regularly?
Join us TOMORROW, 12/5, at 10AM in DC as we share our perspectives as progressive Jewish students on campus and tell Congress “Not In Our Name”. TENTATIVE location is Spirit of Justice Park, south of the Rayburn House Office Building. Be on the look out for live updates tomorrow!
Nick Fuentes is a white supremacist and a Neo-Nazi. Blaming every problem in the world on mysterious Jewish cabals only deflects blame away from the real structural elements that reproduce the same suffering over and over again: capitalism, imperialism, the military industrial
This is really bad. As I have said to my Arab, Palestinian, & Muslim friends before, criticizing & opposing Israel is fine. Joining hands with antisemites, white nationalists, & Holocaust deniers isn’t.
Fuentes is no friend of Arabs, Jews, or Muslims. He’s a far-right extremist.
Get out of the habit of seeking Jewish people at protests or elsewhere to affirm for you that Palestine actions aren’t antisemitic
The Palestinian freedom struggle is a decolonial liberation movement that requires no one to co-sign its validity.
Believe Palestinians.
New national statement from a growing list of Jewish orgs for Palestine, brought to you by MIT Jews for Ceasefire, Harvard Jews for Palestine, and UPenn Chavurah 🔥
This Tuesday, the presidents of Harvard, MIT and UPenn will be called to testify in front of Congress to “answer for [the] mishandling” of “countless examples of antisemitic demonstrations on college campuses.” We say criticism of the Israeli government isn't antisemitic.
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@RepSaraJacobs
Thank you, Congresswoman Jacobs. It’s crazy to see a bill voted for by so many gentiles that would render me and many of my Jewish friends antisemites. Oy. These are truly rough times for so many young Jews.
The dehumanization of Palestinians and Arabs and the demonization of protests and keffiyehs, both labeled as antisemitic and pro-terror, are further endangering the lives of Palestinians in the U.S. who are already being overwhelmed by grief and fear for family at home. Shame.
Three young Palestinian men, Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ali and Kenan Abdulhamid, students at Brown and other US universities, were shot last night on their way to a family dinner in Burlington, USA. Their crime? Wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh. They are critically injured. And
It’s a relief to see that academic bodies are capable of using their moral judgement to discern that our universities should not be invested in weapons manufacturers arming a genocidal campaign. This gives me hope.
U-M students called for BDS almost 7 years ago. U-M faculty have just joined them. Regents, it is time to use your common sense and moral judgement and divest our endowment from weapon manufacturers that sell bombs to the country that is killing our and our colleagues' families.
Israel and the US are destroying international standards developed after WWII to try to stop the same horrors from being repeated. It is shameful and it could have ramifications far beyond this current conflict.
Wow, watch this heated exchange between
@samhusseini
and Deputy StateSpox Patel, in which Patel won’t give a direct response when questioned about US support for the Geneva Convention.
Husseini: It’s a simple question, do you recognize the Geneva Conventions as applying to Gaza?
Rest in Power Aaron Bushnell and every Gazan who died today. Aaron Bushnell stood in front of the Israeli embassy on fire yelling "Free Palestine" until he was physically unable. Let this endless stream of suffering be a call to action.
For the past several months, I’ve been deeply concerned about Israel’s war in Gaza, thinking about what I can say or do, as an American, as a Jew, as a former Congressman. But one thing is crystal clear: the war must end.
Is it not hate speech to taunt Gazans with religious scripture? Not to mention that flooding Gaza's tunnel systems with seawater could make Gaza's groundwater undrinkable and creates catastrophic risks for the infrastructure, including collapsing homes and roads.
“The Israeli military on Wednesday dropped leaflets over Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, with a Quranic verse about the great flood during the time of Noah. In response to a CNN inquiry about leaflets … an IDF spokesperson said: "No comment."
@Autumn__Fox
Sorry, are you Jewish by any chance? If not, do you think you have a greater stake in antisemitism than I do? I will not be bullied by AIPAC, the ADL, and Hillel into claiming that "From the River to the Sea" or chants with the word intifada are calls for Jewish genocide.
@Isaachimmelman
@AsadFromNYC
Because I have been more public with my views, I have been approached by many other young Jews who feel alienated from the Jewish institutions they grew up in but are afraid of losing those relationships entirely.
@furious_a
So you're proving genocidal intent in "from the river to the sea" chants at protests by showing a map of "Israel" that includes the Palestinian territories? Sure, makes lots of sense.
This is clear as day, but it’s put very succinctly here. The rejection of Palestinian statehood in one form or another leaves only ethnic cleaning on the table.
.
@MustafaBarghou1
explains that Israel has three options. Either a two state solution, which they reject, one democratic state with equal rights for all, which they reject, or ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from all of Palestine, which is what they've been trying to do
@DavidKlion
Thought of our horrifying complicity with regards to Gaza while watching the film, and thought of your writing on this during Glazer’s speech.
THE ZONE OF INTEREST director Jonathan Glazer uses his acceptance speech to address the situation in Gaza in a way most this season have assiduously avoided.
Terrifying to see this happening while many Jewish Americans are focusing on campus activism calling for the end of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza.
In the last 4 days, the mainstreaming of antisemitism accelerated across the establishment Right. Well-known pundits at major outlets like Daily Wire and The Blaze praised Nick Fuentes, platformed conspiracies of Jewish power & called for converting Jews to Christianity 1/
The New York Times is literally producing real-time propaganda to provide cover for a genocide. This extends way, way beyond simply bias, pseudo-objectivity or self-censorship.
This points to the same huge problem on MIT campus. The school has not defined antisemitism and yet they are reporting that antisemitic incidents are on the rise. It’s impossible to know what kinds of incidents they are talking about.
In leaked emails on Columbia’s “Task Force on Antisemitism,” James Schamus calls out the task force's refusal to define the very term they formed around:
"it is called the “Task Force on Antisemitism” not “The Task Force on, Like, Campus Vibes.”"
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U.S. intelligence assessment of Israel's UNRWA allegations:
- U.S. could not verify claims that 10% of UNRWA's Gaza staff are Hamas/PIJ
- Finds with "low confidence" that some UNRA staff participated in Oct. 7 attack
from
@nancyayoussef
, me &
@wstrobel
Absolutely pathetic decision making from every country that has withdrawn support for the UNRWA. It’s apparently not enough to aid and abet the complete destruction and ethnic cleansing of Gaza and its people. UN aid is less than the BARE MINIMUM.
Whatever your position is, just take a moment to reflect on just how dark this is.
Just hours after the ICJ concluded that Israel was plausibly committing genocide and ordered it to dramatically step up humanitarian efforts, 7 Western countries sanctioned... not Israel but the
@TheCuStone
No, the Nazis killed Jews because they believed that the Aryan race needed more land and they sought to expand into Eastern Europe. Antisemitism theories originating in Germany and Eastern Europe provided the justification.
MIT's Jewish students are being used by Mike Johnson and Elise Stefanik, who ally themselves with right-wing neofascist antisemitism right here in the United States, to try to roll back decades of effort to make our universities more representative of the country we live in.
@TheCuStone
But maybe you should read a book. The Balfour Declaration put forward the UK's intention to create a Jewish state in Palestine in 1917. And Israel was officially established in 1948, a few years after the Holocaust ended.
@librarythingtim
But also, the idea that there is such outrage over what the presidents failed to say about a conjured up problem on their campus while the U.S. aids and abets Israeli war crimes which are actively cheered by members of all three campus communities is sick.
@librarythingtim
To be clear, the issue here is that this question was preceded by a claim that intifada chants were calls for Jewish genocide. When this claim was linked to the question, it suggested that intifada chants violated the code of conduct.
Every day, I ask myself what it is going to take for the United States to meaningfully change course on funding and arming a fucking genocide. It's APPALLING. I am struggling not to fall into complete, exhausted despair.
🚨Upon his return from Gaza, the president of the World Surgical Foundation says "Genocide was the overwhelming impression that I got"
He adds "The world's best marksmen are not gonna shoot a kid in the head twice & in the abdomen"
Very harrowing details
The bill Congress just passed:
–Cuts UNRWA funding
–Sends Israel another $3.8 billion
–Limits aid to the Palestinian Authority if "the Palestinians" initiate or support an International Criminal Court investigation against Israel for human rights crimes
There were moments where I forgot he wasn't talking about the current crisis. Literally can't imagine anyone in a senior position in the Biden White House saying anything like this.
Update: 150 got killed.
Breaking, breaking, breaking:
Around 4AM, more than 70 people got killed and more 500 got wounded after Israeli tanks opened fire at them while getting aid from the arriving aid trucks on the Rashid Road in Gaza city.
Thousands of starving people slept
@norasaysthings
I am proud to be Jewish. We have an incredible history of maintaining our culture and traditions in diaspora despite centuries of suppression. We helped push labor rights and solidarity politics. Our religious practice prioritizes family and community in beautiful ways.
This is absolutely absurd. How a school can ban silent protest while claiming to encourage discourse and free thought is beyond me. I hope students will be able to put together large enough protests to provide some strength in numbers because these policies require responses.
Barnard College at Columbia University is banning protests inside their buildings, even silent protests. Take a look at their new event guidelines for the semester.
The Leahy Law prohibits the U.S. government from sending funds to foreign security forces when there is credible info indicating they are committing war crimes. But somehow, Biden just bypassed congress to send more tanks. Shame.
Israel used white phosphorus on a town in Lebanon, potentially committing a war crime due to the indiscriminate use of the weapon
Today,
@mmkelly22
@AlexHortonTX
& I can reveal the US gave them the weapons used in the attack
W/comment from
@TiranaHassan
@k_Ausst
Actually, I would have been in the camps with my entire Jewish family. As a Jewish person, I have learned about the Holocaust for as long as I can remember. My history teaches me that all people have a right to live with dignity. But go off.
As city planners, this is why we have to think hard about how to plan for less reliance on personal consumer goods, including cars. Cobalt may not emit GHGs into the atmosphere (although its extraction does!), but mining destroys ecosystems and continues centuries of imperialism.
This is one of the most despicable things I have ever seen. Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, says that anti-Zionist groups like
@jvplive
and
@IfNotNowOrg
"want a Final Solution."
Equating opposition to genocidal violence with the Nazis' genocide of European Jews. Disgusting.
We are saddened to report that Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl discovered missing from
@centralparkzoo
after his exhibit was vandalized just over a year ago, is dead after an apparent collision with a building on West 89th Street in Manhattan.
@Isaachimmelman
@AsadFromNYC
And NYC has a long history of Jewish activism criticizing the Israeli government. So I see this action following in a line of one kind of New York Jewish tradition.
As a Jewish student, I would genuinely like to know if antisemitism as it was always understood before the recent political project to incorporate criticisms of Israel is on the rise on my campus.