US group condemns MIT for barring anti-war student from graduation
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has denounced the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for banning a class president from attending her graduation ceremony after she gave a speech critical of MIT’s collaboration with the Israeli military.
Megha Vemuri was told she’s barred from the campus after she highlighted MIT’s research ties with the Israel army and said, “we are watching Israel try to wipe Palestine off the face of the Earth, and it’s a shame that MIT is a part of it”.
Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, CAIR’s Massachusetts executive director, said Vemuri was punished because she “dared to deliver a powerful speech criticizing the university’s complicity in war crimes perpetrated by the Israeli government”.
“MIT officials should be ashamed of themselves for both helping enable the Israeli government’s genocide and for silencing their own students who speak up against those crimes against humanity,” Amatul-Wadud said in a statement.
“MIT must respect academic freedom and respect the voices of its students, not punish and intimidate those who speak out against genocide and in support of Palestinian humanity.”
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