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An activist group recently used the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s grant database to uncover the school’s ties to Israeli military programs. As a result, the university has closed the database.
The MIT Coalition for Palestine recently published a booklet dubbed “MIT Science for Genocide” Where it highlights the school’s various relationships with Israel’s Ministry of Defense. The booklet claims that Israel has invested $3.7 million in the school as a means of seed research for various defense initiatives. The Intercept Report Those projects include “partnerships in underwater surveillance, missile detection and drone algorithm research.” The report also shows close ties between the school and Israel’s defense contractors — including one that makes most of the country’s killer drones.
As student activists continued to use open-access software to investigate MIT’s Israel-linked grant program, the school disabled the program, Rich Solomon, a coalition member and MIT graduate student, told The Intercept. “MIT has engaged in a sustained and organized campaign of disinformation and propaganda to silence and suppress this information,” Solomon added.
MIT spokeswoman Sarah McDonnell had the following to say when The Intercept reached for comment: “We respect that there are different opinions in that group on any number of issues, and as a general practice our office does not comment individually to the media. Particular students or alumni are freely expressed. McDonnell added: “MIT and its leadership are committed to student well-being, protecting free speech and responding appropriately to policy violations.”
Over 40,000 Palestinians Israel’s attacks on Gaza have reportedly resulted in deaths, most of them There are women and childrenAccording to a United Nations estimate. Some estimates claim the death toll is much higher. A study in The Lancet claimed The destruction of Israeli hospitals and housing could raise the death toll to over 100,000, leading to deaths from disease, starvation and exposure.
Horrible headlines surrounding the conflict only perpetuate the rebellion. Last February, Haaretz published That the IDF was running a Telegram channel dedicated to photos and videos of dead Palestinians, where it They are referred to as “roaches”.” More recently, a doctor working in Gaza admitted that it was the first time He “held the brain of a child.” He has been accused in several reports Indiscriminate killing of civilians by Israeli forces—a claim that was met with disbelief in some circles but which, if you think about it, seems a bit obvious (unless you could potentially argue that thousands of women and children are Hamas agents). Israel also said More journalists were killed (128) in the past year than any other country in the past 100 years.
Commentators have referred to Israel’s operation as “genocide,” and some former Biden administration officials have fled the White House to deal with the crisis. country, which continues to be one Steady flow of arms and funds From the United States, either The trial is currently underway for violating the Geneva Conventions at The Hague.
