Two achievements earned MIT Chancellor Melissa Nobles her place in the Woke Hall of Fame. The first was her campaign to fuel more DEI hiring by accusing MIT and all of STEM of systemic racism. The second was hijacking President Sally Kornbluth’s effort to combat antisemitism launched in the wake of last year’s October 7th atrocities. Her contribution was loading on an anti-Islamophobia program designed to provide cover for the Hamas supporters turning MIT’s campus upside down.

Stand Together Against Hate (STAH) was her mandate. She assured the traumatized MIT community that “We cannot let these issues fester on our campus.”

That’s how it started. How’s it going a year later?

Say hello to Dr. Afif Aqrabawi, at MIT’s Picower Institute.  When a genuine 1930s style pogrom broke out in Amsterdam last week he took to social media to justify the attacks, which he blamed not on the immigrant jihadists who went Jew hunting but on Zionism. And don’t overlook suspended grad student Prahlad Iyengar whose jihadist manifesto got him thrown off campus.

I guess they skipped Melissa’s consciousness raising seminars.

And then there’s MIT’s student newspaper, The Tech. The latest issue weighed in with rants by the MIT Coalition for Palestine along with twisted demands for divestment by the so-called MIT Jews for Collective Liberation.

Hate speech is fully protected by MIT’s Free Expression policy, so antisemites have every right to spew their bile. But can we please stop pretending that STAH is anything more than a performative virtue signaling exercise, or that fearless leader Nobles is anything more than a token DEI-hire? She has no academic background in science or engineering, and has utterly failed in her assigned mission to ratchet down the racial and identity-driven conflict that is the signature legacy of the Woke Mind Virus.

Is that really the kind of leadership likely to foster a healthy culture of Belonging?