MIT Sued by Student, Instructor Claiming Campus Antisemitism
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators at an encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2024.
Photographer: Mel Musto/BloombergThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology was sued by an instructor and a former student who claim the school’s administration failed to address a “hostile anti-Semitic environment” on campus following the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel by Hamas.
Lior Alon, a Jewish Israeli mathematics instructor, and William Sussman, a Jewish former PhD student, sued the Cambridge-based research university in Boston federal court Wednesday. They accused MIT of failing to respond to a “surge” of hatred, making it difficult for them to participate in campus life and depriving them of educational and professional opportunities.