As the Alliance of Concerned Faculty at MIT we support and affirm our students’ right to peaceful political expression and support their rights to free speech. We thus express our support for the students currently staging a peaceful and multi-faith encampment on Kresge Lawn. We invite all MIT teaching faculty – professors, lecturers, instructors and visiting professors…

Michel DeGraff, Tanalís Padilla,  EMAIL THIS PAGE On Monday, March 25th, an excerpt of the below letter was published in The New York Times Letters to the Editor section. We had to significantly edit it in order to meet their length requirements, so we wanted to share our full text with you, our colleagues, in order to continue the conversation…

M.I.T. and the Gaza War To the Editor: It’s on behalf of 30 M.I.T. faculty members from various disciplines that we write to address recent events at M.I.T. concerning the war in Gaza. Antisemitism is rising nationally and on our campus, necessitating urgent education about its origins and practices. But accusations of antisemitism are used…