M.I.T. Defends Pres. Sally Kornbluth

Sally Kornbluth

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) President Sally Kornbluth testified before the House Committee on Education  on December 5 along with Harvard President Claudine Gay and University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill on the issue of campus anti-Semitism. All three performed poorly and prattled about context when asked about calls for the wiping out of the Jewish state of Israel. Beyond chants, their campuses have been plagued by incidents of harassment of Jewish students and anti-Jewish expressions.

While Magill has resigned, Harvard has decided to defend Gay and retain her as their president. It appears M.I.T. is also defending Kornbluth.

This is an official M.I.T. link with campus updates. It has a series of statements of support for Kornbluth which are linked here, here, and here,  These are all dated after December 5. I am linking them separately because it appears that this page is subject to regular updates.

Here is  Kornbluth's opening statement to the House on December 5.

Here is what Kornbluth wrote to the campus community subsequent to her testimony.

In addition, I am cross-posting two opposing op-eds in the campus newspaper, The Tech. They can be accessed here and here.

The impression I get is that M.I.T. will stand by Kornbluth while the campus newspaper, in true campus newspaper tradition, will give equal voice to the pro-Palestinian side and the side of Jewish students as if they are morally equivalent. Translation? Business as usual at M.I.T.