Another university that has a lack of tolerance. MIT Leaders Assembled a Faculty Advisory Group on Campus Anti-Semitism. Then They Ignored It.
What's the opposite of Diversity? University.
MIT had a group of Jewish faculty assemble to help the university adress the growing problem of antisemitism on the campus. A positive first step. Then they proceeded to ignore the group. It almost looks like the formation of the group was nothing but a PR stunt. "See! We are doing something!"
The school's "Standing Together Against Hate" (STAH) initiative, Nobles said, would include four panels: one on anti-Semitism, one on "campus freedom of expression," one on Islamophobia, and one on "anti-Palestinian racism." Omitted from the speaker series was any talk on racism or hatred targeting Israelis and Zionists.
MIT's hand-picked speakers also prompted concern. Islamophobia panelist Dalia Mogahed in the wake of Oct. 7 endorsed Hamas terrorism as an act of lawful "resistance" and suggested that Israelis are "savages" who "kill babies" and "bomb hospitals." Free speech panelist Erwin Chemerinsky, meanwhile, serves as the dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, which was sued in November over "unchecked" campus anti-Semitism.
It isn't that MIT didn't take the Jewish group's recommendations for speakers, they didn't ask for recommendations. At this point the group apparently decided that they had been assembled as a PR stunt.
The members responded by disbanding their advisory group.
The hat tip goes to CBD at Ace of Spades HQ
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