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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 closed the database.
The MIT Coalition for Palestine recently published a booklet called “MIT Science for Genocide” in which he establishes the various links of the school with the Israeli Ministry of Defense. The booklet states that Israel has invested as much as $3.7 million in the school as a way to conduct research in various defense initiatives. The Intercept reports that these projects include “partnerships for underwater surveillance research, missile detection and drone algorithms.” The report also shows close ties between the school and Israel’s defense contractors, including one that makes most of the nation’s killer drones.
Because student activists continued to use the open-access software to probe MIT’s Israel-related grant activity, the school disabled the program, Rich Solomon, a member of the Coalition and an MIT graduate student told the 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 said the following when reached for comment by The Intercept: “We respect that there is a variety of opinions in that group on any subject, and as a general practice, our office does not comment to the media about individual, freely held and expressed opinions of particular students or alumni.” McDonnell added: “MIT and its leadership are committed to promoting the well-being of students, protecting free speech, and responding to policy violations as appropriate.”
Over 40,000 Palestinians were killed as a result of Israel’s assault on Gaza, the majority of which they were women and childrenaccording to a UN estimate. Some estimates say the death toll is much higher. A study from The Lancet he declared the death toll could rise to over 100,000 due to Israeli destruction of hospitals and homes, which could lead to deaths from disease, starvation and exposure.
The horrific headlines associated with the conflict only continue to rage. last february Haaretz revealed that the IDF runs a Telegram channel dedicated to photos and videos of dead Palestinians, where referred to them as “cockroaches.” More recently, a doctor working in Gaza admitted that it was the first time had “held the brain of a child” in his hands. Various reports have claimed indiscriminate killing of civilians by Israeli forces– a claim that has been met with disbelief in some circles, but which, if you think about it, seems a bit obvious (unless you can argue that tens of thousands of women and children are Hamas operatives). Also, Israel said killed more journalists (128) during the past year than any other country during the last 100 years.
Commentators have referred to Israel’s campaign as a “genocide,” and some former Biden administration officials have fled the White House over the government’s handling of the crisis. The country, which continues to receive a constant flow of arms and funding from the United States, it is currently on trial for violating the Hague Geneva Convention.
