Jewish students walk out after MIT commencement speaker accuses university of aiding Israel's 'genocide'

A commencement talker accused the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) of being portion of wiping "Palestine from the look of the Earth" Thursday, starring aggregate students to locomotion out.

Megha M. Vemuri, MIT's people of 2025 president, praised her classmates for protesting against Israel in the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas violent attacks and the ensuing Gaza War.

"Last spring, MIT's undergraduate assemblage and postgraduate pupil national voted overwhelmingly to chopped ties with the genocidal Israeli military. You called for a imperishable ceasefire successful Gaza. And you stood successful solidarity with the pro-Palestinian activists connected campus. You faced threats, intimidation and suppression coming from each directions, particularly your ain assemblage officials," Vemuri said.

Her comments drew a premix of boos and cheers, according to video obtained by Fox News Digital. One of the attendants, waving what appeared to beryllium a Palestinian flag, scuffled with security. Some students walked retired arsenic Vemuri spoke. Others successful the assemblage shouted, "Shame." 

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People chant and clasp signs astatine a rally to enactment Palestine astatine MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) successful Cambridge, Massachusetts connected October 19, 2023. (Photo by William B. Plowman/JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

"But you prevailed due to the fact that the MIT assemblage that I cognize would ne'er tolerate a genocide. Right now, portion we hole to postgraduate and determination guardant with our lives, determination are nary universities near successful Gaza," Vemuri continued.

She went connected to say, "We are watching Israel effort to hitch Palestine disconnected the look of the earth. And it is simply a shame that MIT is simply a portion of it." 

Jewish and Israeli students walked retired and immoderate successful the assemblage protested arsenic Vemuri accused the assemblage of being "directly complicit successful the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people."

"The Israeli concern forces are the lone overseas subject that MIT has probe ties with. This means that Israel's battle connected the Palestinian radical is not lone aided and abetted by our country, but our school. As scientists, engineers, academics, and leaders, we person a committedness to enactment life. Support assistance efforts and telephone for an arms embargo and support demanding present arsenic alumni that MIT cuts the ties," she said.

One graduating Israeli student, who wished to stay anonymous, told Fox News Digital, "All of our families came from acold to spot the ceremonial and were highly disappointed. All the Jewish families, not lone the Israelis, stepped retired and near the ceremony. MIT medication approved and supported that."

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Posters created by encampment members are taped to a gross connected the borderline of the Kresge auditorium tract astatine MIT.  (Nikolas Lanum/Fox News Digital)

After Vemuri gave her code astatine Thursday's commencement event, she was told she would not beryllium allowed astatine Friday's undergraduate ceremony.

"With respect to MIT’s Commencement 2025 activities, the code delivered by a graduating elder astatine Thursday’s OneMIT Commencement Ceremony was not the 1 that was provided by the talker successful advance. While that idiosyncratic had a scheduled relation astatine today’s Undergraduate Degree Ceremony, she was notified that she would not beryllium permitted astatine today’s events," an MIT spokesperson told Fox News Digital successful a statement. 

"MIT supports escaped look but stands by its decision, which was successful effect to the idiosyncratic deliberately and repeatedly misleading Commencement organizers and starring a protestation from the stage, disrupting an important Institute ceremony."

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College campuses crossed the U.S. person been rocked with protests amid the Gaza war. MIT was among a plethora of campuses wherever antisemitic agitators delivered incendiary speeches and faced disconnected with police. 

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