My brother, Mohammed, was killed in an Israeli airstrike
It is time for MIT’s faculty to enter the fight and say no to abetting crimes against humanity and apartheid in the Holy Land.
Our Intifada
Our demand to hostile administrators and the government remains clear: end the US and Israel’s horrific assault on the besieged Palestinians of Gaza and divest from financial and research ties to Israeli apartheid. We publicly challenged MIT to stop doing weapons and surveillance research for the Israeli Ministry of Defense and immediately end Israeli military funding for campus research. To beat down the “student’s intifada,” as it came to be called, police forces across the nation—city, state, county, highway, and campus—arrested almost 3,000 of us.
From the River to the Sea to Every Mountain Top
Some of my fellow MIT students take issue with the chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” But do you know what actually exists from the river to the sea? A fractured patchwork of different political jurisdictions, within which about seven million Palestinians live without the same basic rights as seven million Jews.