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MIT Shut Down Internal Grant Database After It Was Used to Research School’s Israel Ties (theintercept.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The Israeli Ministry of Defense has poured more than $3.7 million into developing warfare technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2015, according to a recent report from students and faculty organizing against the war in Gaza.

The report was published last month by the MIT Coalition for Palestine, which represents 19 student and faculty groups on campus, including MIT Divest, MIT Jews for Collective Liberation, and MIT Faculty and Staff for Palestine.

After the student organizers began further probing grant information, the school took down the grant software used for the coalition’s research, said Rich Solomon, a member and MIT graduate student who worked on the report. “MIT has engaged in a sustained and organized campaign of disinformation and propaganda in order to silence and suppress this information,” Solomon told The Intercept.

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[–] [email protected] 161 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

So by hiding their ties...they've exposed their ties.

One would have thought the administrators at MIT would also be smart...guess not.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Administrators at prestigious schools are just low grade politicians.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They tasted the tiniest bit of power, and now it's all they crave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I'm sure they were told by their supervisors to do this. These people don't fart without permission from above them. Take it from someone holding his farts.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

They're administrators, not academics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

By hiding their ties, they can deny, delay, and depose anyone who prints statements to the contrary.

One would have thought the administrators at MIT would also be smart

Shutting the door on public inquiry is a long term play that involves a little short term pain. But nobody is going to remember this headline in another news cycle or three.

Admins are banking on BDS falling down the memory hole like so many other failed civil rights initiatives.