The Israeli Ministry of Defense has poured more than $3.7 million into developing warfare technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2015, according to a recent report from students and faculty organizing against the war in Gaza.
The report was published last month by the MIT Coalition for Palestine, which represents 19 student and faculty groups on campus, including MIT Divest, MIT Jews for Collective Liberation, and MIT Faculty and Staff for Palestine.
After the student organizers began further probing grant information, the school took down the grant software used for the coalition’s research, said Rich Solomon, a member and MIT graduate student who worked on the report. “MIT has engaged in a sustained and organized campaign of disinformation and propaganda in order to silence and suppress this information,” Solomon told The Intercept.
*US Academia
Are you fucking kidding me mate? It’s bloody one of the top 3 universities in the world. It’s a pillar of global academia no matter which way you split it.
Like the baseball world series…
No ya muppet, higher education is not like a sport chiefly played in the US.
MIT in my heart is Nr.1!
… In making students commit suicide for frivolous IP lawsuits…
Otherwise is like baseball world series. “American exceptionalism”
What a moronic take, honestly mate.
You can generally rank things, this is a fact. It just so happens that when you rank some of the best universities globally, and many times from many groups in many countries, and you keep seeing MIT get into the top list it’s safe to say it’s factually good and not some out of place nonsense related to the Americans and their psyche.