From MIT head attends screening of Hamas horror compilation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Sally Kornbluth, who came under fire after her testimony on the university’s response to antisemitism, attended a screening of a compilation film showing Hamas atrocities carried out on October 7, Prof. Retsef Levi says on X, formerly Twitter.
Levi, a critic of Kornbluth, says he also attended the screening, as did chairman of the MIT board Mark Gorenberg and other faculty.
The screening of the tightly controlled film, which was put together by the IDF, was hosted by the MIT Chabad house, Levi says.
Today, I watched again the Bearing Witness video of Oct 7 Hamas atrocities in a special showing organized by MIT Chabad.
Faculty colleagues, MIT President, Sally Kornbluth & chair of the corporation, Mark Gorenberg watched many heart-soul-mind crashing scenes.
What sticks with…
— Retsef Levi (@RetsefL) December 20, 2023
“We each have to make a choice about this. No grey, only black or white! No ambiguity, no context, but never again,” he tweets.
Kornbluth was widely criticized along with Harvard president Claudine Gay and since-ousted Penn president Liz Magill when they testified to a Congressional committee that decisions about whether a call for Jewish genocide broke school rules depended on the context.
Jewish students at many universities have reported feeling unsafe as campuses host protests against Israel over its campaign against Hamas in Gaza.
There is no comment from Kornbluth or Gorenberg about the film.
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