MIT Denies 78-Year-Old Professor Funds to Promote Antisemitism Book
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 25
MIT Denies 78-Year-Old Professor Funds to Promote Antisemitism Book
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 25
Summary
Yossi Sheffi, 78, said MIT administrators refused to provide money to promote his completed book on antisemitism at the university.
Sheffi said he wrote the book after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack and subsequent 2023-24 Gaza war protests, which he says left Jews and Israelis facing hostile treatment on campus.
MIT did not issue the kind of formal antisemitism report produced by some peer schools, and Sheffi said his book effectively fills that gap.
Sheffi said administrators are embarrassed by the book's contents and fear the Trump administration could use them to threaten MIT research funding.