MIT’s high-priced lawyers successfully convinced a judge that the administration was shocked, shocked by the virulent antisemitism that roiled campus. What possible connection could there be between MIT’s extensive DEI indoctrination and demands by social justice activists that settler colonial Jews must turn over Israel “from the river to the sea” to peace-loving oppressed Palestinians?
A lawsuit claiming that the administration should not have let pro-Hamas protestors run wild for eight months, shredding the precious concept of “Belonging” for MIT’s Jewish students, was dismissed.
MIT should be proud that “when students complained to MIT’s Institute Discrimination & Harassment Response Office (IDHR) about the perceived antisemitic incidents, IDHR responded that the complained-of conduct “did not seem to violate the policies that IDHR has jurisdiction over” and, moreover, that Jews are not members of a protected class.”
Congratulations, Chancellor Melissa Nobles! Your Stand Together Against Hate (STAH) initiative successfully derailed President Kornbluth’s attempt to initiate a program to combat antisemitism, replacing it with a kabuki dance that condemned “underreported Islamophobia.”
MIT can now wash its hands of all responsibility for the hostile climate its DEI Leviathan and rabid SHASS professors created, returning to intersectional business as usual. If Jews don’t like it, they can find another university to attend. After all, you know what happens to uppity Jews who get out of line.
We can now look forward to more exciting pro-Hamas disruptions when students return to campus in the fall. Allahu Akbar!