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Today, Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) sent a letter to Dr. Sally Kornbluth, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), requesting additional information about recent instances of antisemitism on campus. 
 
In the letter, Walberg writes: “In its March 8, 2024, letter to MIT the Committee documented a series of deeply troubling antisemitic incidents at the university. Unfortunately, this hostility appears to have continued throughout 2025. For example, in 2025, students have allegedly continued to distribute ‘terror maps’ demarcating campus buildings linked to Jews and Israelis; in May, MIT students vandalized campus property and threatened Israelis and Jews; and in July, yet another MIT building was vandalized—this time by an aggressive and radical group that also threatened an MIT researcher.”
 
The letter continues: “The Committee also remains deeply concerned about incidents that occurred in 2023 and 2024, including the harassment of a Jewish PhD student by an MIT professor—a case that MIT’s anti-discrimination office allegedly refused to investigate. The same MIT professor made numerous antisemitic online posts, including referring to ‘mind infections’ among Jews.  In another deeply concerning incident, an Israeli postdoctoral associate was cornered and harassed by a group chanting death to Israel on MIT grounds. The same individual was allegedly tormented for weeks on end by not only students but also his professor.”
 
The letter concludes by requesting documents, communications, and records since October 7, 2023, related to antisemitism and complaints of potential antisemitic incidents.
 
Read the full letter here.

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