What chutzpah! How dare these ungrateful MIT grad students sue the union they’re being forced to fork over dues to just because they want an exemption from paying for anti-Israeli political demonstrations and Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) activism.

As explained by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which supported these malcontents, “Because Massachusetts lacks Right to Work protections that make union membership and financial support voluntary, union officials at unionized private colleges like MIT can force graduate students to financially support a union under threat of losing their academic positions and work. However, this power is subject to limitations under federal anti-discrimination law and some Supreme Court decisions.”

Bah. They may have the law on their side, but they’d better chill out if they know what’s good for them. As the fall mostly peaceful protest season gets underway it would be a pity if sumpin were to happen to them.

MIT’s Graduate Student Union is a proud affiliate of the Marxist-Leninist United Electric, Radio & Machine Workers of America. This puts them in the vanguard of higher education unionization, an important part of the long march through the institutions.

Advocating against settler-colonialism, demanding that Palestine be free from the river to the sea, setting up protest encampments, and blocking traffic in front the Stata Center is an essential part of MIT’s Graduate Student Union’s mandate. Righteous comrades will see to it that social justice prevails, by any means necessary.