Students at MIT joined others in universities across the nation by setting up an encampment to protest Israel's military campaign in Gaza.
The group putting up tents on the school’s Kresge Lawn is calling the effort the Scientists Against Genocide Encampment, according to Francesca Riccio-Ackerman, a research assistant and PhD student. “MIT has received OVER $11 MILLION in research funding from the Ministry of Defense of Israel since 2015,” she“MIT has received OVER $11 MILLION in research funding from the Ministry of Defense of Israel since 2015….
However, student protesters at the school maintained that an unnecessary spotlight has been cast on “inflammatory individuals who do not represent us,”Talia Khan, an MIT student and president of the MIT Israel Alliance, according to her X bio, posted a video of the MIT encampment set up on Sunday. “And, it’s happened. The anti-Israel, pro-terrorist encampment is now up at @MIT,” she wrote. “We are afraid to go near.
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