Exposing ties between MIT and Israel's army, with Prahlad Iyengar and Michel DeGraff

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In a new 83-page report, members of the MIT Coalition for Palestine – made up of 20 different student and faculty groups on campus – are exposing the institutional ties between the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Israeli military. With meticulous research, these students trace the money and weapons trail that winds through Israel’s genocide in Gaza, unmasking and confronting MIT’s research, as it describes itself, “to make a better world." "MIT laboratories on campus conduct weapons and surveillance research directly sponsored by the Israeli military,” the coalition states. "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.” As students and faculty respond to the global call for boycott, divestment and sanctions, and exposing these ties between their university and Israel’s killing machine in Gaza, MIT has enacted draconian tactics of repression against students and faculty. Prahlad Iyengar, a graduate student in the electrical engineering and computer science department at MIT studying quantum information science, has been organizing with the Coalition for Palestine at MIT since October 2023. “The world recognizes that this is a genocide,” he tells The Electronic Intifada Podcast. “MIT even should recognize that this is a genocide. It violates MIT’s own policies to be funding, groups or to be collaborating with an entity that actually, actively is perpetrating a genocide. It’s a violation of its own audit and risk policy because it’s engaged in active human rights violations. And yet, MIT does not apply that standard to Israel.” Iyengar said that he was suspended by the university who charged him with “harassment and intimidation” because he asked Lockheed Martin recruiters questions about their weapons program at a career fair on campus. Read more: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/exposing-ties-between-mit-and-israels-army MIT Coalition for Palestine's op-ed in The Electronic Intifada: https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-research-mit-abets-israels-genocide-gaza/50250 Your gift supports The Electronic Intifada's independent journalism on Palestine: • Donate by credit card, ApplePay, PayPal, Venmo or US bank account via Kindful: https://bit.ly/EIKindful Gifts are welcome from anywhere and are tax-deductible for US taxpayers as allowed by law. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐚𝐝𝐚 Visit our website for more reporting: http://electronicintifada.net Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/intifada Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/electronicintifada/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/intifada Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/electronicintifada Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/intifada Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7g2IMlNS5SFPmj86cfXg4V Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-electronic-intifada-podcast/id972399937 #TheElectronicIntifada #TheElectronicIntifadaPodcast