Pro-Palestine student interrupts MIT professor protesting against Israel

New York: Footage emerged from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US on Saturday showed a student making an impassioned speech about Israel’s excess in Gaza, which has since gone viral on social media.

The student was seen beginning the speech in the minute-and-a-half-long video by asking the professor whether he could say something.

The student waited until the teacher completed his lecture after he asked “Can I just finish this line?”

Subsequently, the student read out: ‘As you witness an ongoing genocide of Gaza in MIT silence - I'm joining hundreds of students city-wide walking out of class. We stand for the liberation of Palestine against active genocide that is perpetuated by MIT, Israel and the United States.’

The student accused MIT , Israel and the US of perpetuating genocide’ as the war in Gaza is continuing with mounting casualties every day.

Later taking to social media platform X, Professor Retsef Levi, MIT Expert in Analytics said that a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students prevented Jewish and Israeli MIT students from attending the class.

‘Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA. This is after students from the CAA harassed MIT staff members in their offices for being Jewish and interrupted classes in the past few weeks. All of this has occurred with no clear response from the administration. With each passing day, MIT admin's silence makes Jewish and Israeli students feel unsafe at MIT,’ Professor Retsef Levi was quoted as stating on X.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman shared the professor’s note and accused the MIT of failing to ‘discipline protesters’.

‘The failure of Harvard, MIT and other universities to discipline protesters who violate their rules emboldens the protesters to more aggressive, disruptive and antisemitic actions. This has created a climate of fear that is not conducive to a university education. The failure to discipline students who have bullied, assaulted or otherwise been abusive to Jewish students under the guise of free speech or a supposed requirement to wait for the completion of a police and FBI investigation is similarly absurd,’ Ackman wrote.

Israel has been continuing airstrikes in Gaza since October 7 Hamas attack that killed according to a revised toll around 1,200 Israelis.