it’s not “pro palestine”, it’s not “anti israel”,
it’s anti genocide of palestinians by israelis…
they try to keep framing it as that, as some nationalist thing….

Desperate to prove their fascist bona fides in the hopes of retaining funding. It will come back to bite them. There's no winning way to play this game but there's and honorable and a dishonorable way.

MIT didn't "go maga". They are intrinsically tied to government contracts.

Basically all STEM research at the university level is funded by a mixture of corporate and government interests. Even NSF grants (remember when those were a thing...) tend to focus on areas that anyone with a keen eye can see having military applications. One of my favorites was the massive push for graph analytics 10 or 15 years back and people not realizing that was a roundabout way of saying "analyze social media".

MIT in particular is VERY dependent on this because they need to be "elite". Smaller state universities can shuffle money around and focus on other funding sources, to a degree. MIT can't because their staff inherently have good networks and would jump ship the moment their perks start going away.

Contrast that with Harvard where they still get lots of "donations" from rich and powerful lawyers (and politicians) and where the publicity for "fighting the government" can heavily offset all the international students getting put in a concentration camp before their checks clear.

Most big colleges have helped evict and deport people on studen visas. They cooperate and are complicit.

I'm betting it wouldn't be difficult to find links between MITs research and development labs and weapons and technologies companies involved in Gaza.

Societies are sometimes like big interconnected machines, large parts become complicit in denial, repression, and destruction.

Edit: yep, as expected:

Since at least 2015, MIT laboratories have received millions of dollars from the Israeli Ministry of Defense for projects to develop algorithms that help drone swarms to better pursue escaping targets; to improve underwater surveillance technology; and support military aircraft evade missiles. Two of these sponsorships were renewed since October 7th, 2023, while one came up for renewal in December 2024. Second, MIT maintains institutional collaborations through the ILP, LGO, CSAIL, and MIT Energy Initiative programs with companies that sell vast amounts of weapons to Israel. These include Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest military contractor, as well as Maersk, Lockheed Martin, and Caterpillar. These collaborations grant genocide profiteers privileged access to MIT talent and expertise.

P.S That drone swarm technology is part of why 83% of American doctors who have provided care in Gaza, have reported treating children for being shot in the head. Source: NPR's The American Life.

Strisand effect for sure!

DARPA money is a hell of a drug?

I have no idea if this is a real thing or not.

I'm sure a lot of questions would be answered by checking the universities donations.

Research needs money for happening. You need to pay researchers, structures, various staff. Even more so a fancy structure as MIT

Israel (and American Zionists) have the power to cancel a sizeable amount of research contracts with MIT. (AIPAC shows how well organised they are, originally for defence from antisemitism, now for defence from… Palestine? I guess? 🤷‍♂️ )

Then for MIT (that is a corporation like another) comes to damage control. On one hand PR, on the other money.

MIT took the money, Stanford (in the case of DEI) took the PR.

I am still 100% sure neither of the two can give a damn of Palestinians, Israel or DEI. It’s just MBA stuff 🤷‍♂️

(I have my opinions on the situation in Palestine but I don’t want this post to be about that)