According to Jewish students and faculty at MIT, the place is awash in antisemitism. And its Jewish president, Sally Kornbluth, is not up to the task of dealing with the mess. More on the current morass at the Infinite Corridor on Mass Ave can be found here: “New MIT Accuser Comes Forward With Harrowing Antisemitism Allegations,” by Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, September 17, 2025:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is being accused by another alleged victim of refusing, as de-facto policy, to quell antisemitic discrimination which violated rights guaranteed by Title VI of the US Civil Rights Act.
The complainant, a male researcher, came forward to join a lawsuit that the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed in June, which required its being amended to include him. According to court documents shared with The Algemeiner, he endured psychological torment, having been swarmed by “masked” pro-Hamas activists clamoring for the destruction of Israel and students who “interrogated” his Jewish identity, pelting him with slurs and threatening to “prevent” his reproducing to bring “more Jewish children” into the world.
While administrators received formal complaints describing in harrowing detail the severity of the bullying being perpetrated against the student, they allegedly took no action. Left to stand alone, the student resorted to concealing his Jewishness on a campus which purports to be one of the most inclusive in the country.
“Antisemitism continues to persist at MIT, ultimately allowing the abuse to escalate until a promising Israeli researcher was forced from his lab. This not only deeply impacts this individual, but an entire campus and the communities this researcher, and other like them, could help through their work over the course of their careers,” Brandeis Center founder and chairman Kenneth Marcus said in a statement. “MIT has had countless opportunities to stop this harassment and protect their Israeli and Jewish students and faculty. Instead, antisemitism has only worsened at MIT — an outcome made possible by the administration’s continued negligence.”
As previously reported, the other plaintiffs, Lior Alon and William Sussman, allege that MIT became inhospitable to Jewish students after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel, as pro-Hamas activists there issued calls to “globalize the intifada,” interrupted lessons with “speeches, chants, and screams,” and discharged their bodily fluids on campus properties administered by Jews. Jewish institutions at MIT came under further attack when a pro-Hamas group circulated a “terror-map” on campus which highlighted buildings associated with Jews and Israelis and declared, “resistance is justified when people are colonized.”….
All the while, MIT’s administration allegedly refused to correct the hostile environment….
MIT’s history, since October 7, 2023, of not protecting its Jewish studens and faculty from threats and attacks, needs to receive wide publicity at trial. MIT prohibited students from flying the Israeli flag to express solidarity with the Jewish state, but allowed the Palestinian flag to be flown. MIT did nothing to sanction the sinister MIT linguistic professor Michel DeGraff, who posted on social detail false and damning details of an Israeli professor’s life, making it seem as though while serving in the IDF he — Lior Alon — had been guilty of war crimes, which led to his being stalked, even at the grocery store and at his child’s daycare center. Anti-Israel mobs who yelled and banged at the door of the MIT Israel Internship Office, trying to get in, all the while screaming that Israel was committing “genocide,” were not punished. Pro-Hamas mobs who interrupted classes taught by Israeli faculty in order to shut them down by screaming were not punished. Many dozens of antisemitic acts have been reported to the administration, but no action has been taken. Talia Khan, a Jewish student, testified before Congress about those attacks, and how she had been “traumatized” by living on a campus that was “overrun by terrorist supporters.”
MIT’s President Kornbluth has said that “antisemitism is real, and it is rising in the world. We cannot let it poison our community.’” But by her inaction she has done exactly that — “let it poison our community.” Appeals to decency, cries of anguish from Jewish students and faculty, have had no effect. Now it’s time for lawfare, to make MIT pay for its misdeeds, including its violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. And in the wake of a verdict finding for the plaintiffs, and costing MIT a pretty penny, perhaps President Kornbluth will resign. She won’t be missed.
Wellington says
On a specific matter, we have here at MIT another female president of a university. Now, I don’t care about the gender, race or ethnicity of someone if they are competent for the job but there seems to be a plethora of females in top positions, another example being police chiefs in major cities, and I smell a rat here, i.e., DEI woke nonsense and other rot along these Leftist lines. And who it is truly unfair to are those in a position of leadership who really are competent but because they are not a white male they, understandably, are often suspected as well. Thanks again, Leftism, for nothing.
Keys says
100%, Wellington.
Stinks.
gravenimage says
Sally Kornbluth *says* she rejects antisemtism–I *hopV* this is true:
https://president.mit.edu/writing-speeches/rejecting-antisemitism
James Lincoln says
I propose that “antisemitic” be now spelled as “antise-MIT-ic”.
Winston 101 says
Wellington, Keys and Lincoln,
Agreed. Somehow all these woman appear as if born fully formed from the heat of Zeus.
Unfortunately, they have proved themselves to be pretenders and plagiarists.
The clearly antise-MIT-ic* situation at MIT, and Kornbluth’s inability to deal with it effectively,
is a call for her to be fired for the blatant inability to perform the duties of her job.
* Per Mr. Lincoln.
Bob's Your Uncle says
I was thinking watching the memorial service for the late Charlie Kirk (RIP) on Sunday, that in addition to evangelizing their heartfelt faith and encouraging the desperately needed turn of the body politic to conservatism; that is Turning Point USA really wanted to do something impactful and desperately needed, they might consider some mass gatherings in opposition to antisemitism and Jew hatred. There is no voice at the moment that is louder and morally righteous than conservative Christians. They proclaim loudly (and I believe with love in their hearts) to love Israel and the Jewish people. Charlie Kirk was a Judeophile. He and his wife celebrated the Jewish Sabbath (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown) in addition to attending church on Sunday. His close relationships with people like Dennis Prager belie any allegation that he was anything other than a supporter of Israel and Jewish people. Jesus and all 12 apostles lived their entire lives as orthodox Jews. If Jesus proclaimed himself a “savior” (and the Son or Man) he was first and foremost that of Israel. So, if believing Christians truly believe that they have a goal to live their lives in a manner that would be in the image of Christ, it’s time they join in and lift their voices loudly, assertively and non-violently in unity with their Jewish brothers and sisters. If we are to continue to have a country based on the Judeo-Christian values (not the particular PRACTICE of religion) that Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison advocated; if we are to continue the pluralistic and free Western Civilization that Locke, Montesquieu, De Toqueville and others helped to shape; it will take more than a couple of Jewish PhD candidates filing lawsuits. Hopefully, this will occur to such a large and influential bunch still grieving the death and tragic loss of such a great young man and in particular an amazing “thinker”. All of you out there: make Charlie proud! Embrace the good and righteous opportunities and assume the moral responsibilities that the freedom given to us by the one true God and creator of freedom has bestowed upon us.
Rick Gordon says
Very sad. As a college undergrad in the 60s, MIT was known as a superior technology school. It supported the early development of many tools that became part of the Internet.
Reading this essay makes me mad (as an American) and asking questions – where is the research money coming from? How much is foreign funds? What are the current demographics of the students? What was it during the space race of the 60s?
OLD GUY says
Saudi Arabia and Qatar are major donors to the endowment funds of many of our major Colleges and Universities over the past 30 years or so. That money buys influence, Islamic student Unions, muslim studies and Islamic instructors to campus. This access to our young adults is a perfect place to spread Muslim/Islamic propaganda.
tgusa says
The left keeps calling President Trump and his supporters, Hitler, Nazis, but the Reich keeps rearing its ugly head on the left. Female leadership such as Margaret Thatcher (ideological clarity, decisiveness, resilience, and strong communication skills) is rare. Female leadership over the thousands of years history of Western civilization is a relatively new phenomenon. I am seeing far too many female leaders that fail the leadership test. many of them just aren’t up to it. We are not playing house here, these are serious issues that must be dealt with.
If these institutions keep it up they deserve the Dresden treatment. I am sick of it and it has no place in America. I hope MIT President Sally Kornbluth is better in the kitchen than she is at MIT but I doubt it.
jerry glenn says
MIT surges in the national Islamopandering derby.
gravenimage says
The Antisemitic Morass At MIT
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Just appalling. Glad to see some speaking out.