{"id":2210704,"date":"2024-04-01T14:51:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-stopping-until-liberation-mit-faculty-member-urges-followers-to-shut-down-israeli-company-in-cambridge\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T14:51:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T18:51:29","slug":"no-stopping-until-liberation-mit-faculty-member-urges-followers-to-shut-down-israeli-company-in-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-stopping-until-liberation-mit-faculty-member-urges-followers-to-shut-down-israeli-company-in-cambridge\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Professor Calls for Boycott of Israeli Firm in Cambridge Until Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-stopping-until-liberation-mit-faculty-member-urges-followers-to-shut-down-israeli-company-in-cambridge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2210704&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>MIT faculty member, Afif Aqrabawi, \u2064faced criticism for launching\u200c an anti-Semitic \u200battack after \u2062a congressional \u2062request for\u2063 anti-Semitism information at \u2062the university. Aqrabawi&#8217;s offensive comments targeted Chairwoman Virginia Foxx and called for shutting down an Israeli company in Cambridge. The situation underscores concerns about\u200c hate speech in academic settings and repercussions against\u2062 anti-Semitic remarks.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Afif Aqrabawi went on anti-Semitic tirade after congressional committee requested anti-Semitism docs from school<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tAfif Aqrabawi (Twitter), MIT (Maddie Meyer\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty member who last month went on an anti-Semitic tirade\u2014in which he called House Education and the Workforce Committee chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.) a &#8220;treasonous Zionist tool&#8221; and referred to Israelis as &#8220;parasites&#8221;\u2014is now urging his followers to shut down an Israeli company in Cambridge, saying, &#8220;No stoping [sic] until liberation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Afif Aqrabawi, a postdoctoral associate <a href=\"https:\/\/tonegawalab.mit.edu\/members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">working in<\/a> MIT&#8217;s Tonegawa neuroscience lab, encouraged his Twitter followers to shut down an Israeli company located in Cambridge, Mass. The MIT faculty member was responding to a Twitter follower&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Michael38488947\/status\/1774204994348003502?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suggestion<\/a> to shut down a Raytheon facility in Bedford, Mass., to which he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AjAqrabawi\/status\/1774205211537752098?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded<\/a>, &#8220;Elbit in Cambridge as well. No stoping [sic] until liberation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The call to action followed pictures Aqrabawi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AjAqrabawi\/status\/1774199883953500548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> of a pro-Palestinian protest in Boston that blocked traffic Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Elbit Systems, an Israeli company that provides the Jewish state with counterterrorism equipment, has been singled out by anti-Israel activists. Since Hamas&#8217;s terrorist assault on Israel, Elbit facilities have been targeted by <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/war-criminals-work-here-pro-palestinian-activists-vandalize-israeli-companys-virginia-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vandals<\/a>, while its employees have been harassed as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/israel\/huge-economic-damage-anti-semitic-activists-arrested-over-plot-to-shut-down-london-stock-exchange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broader effort<\/a> to popularize attacks against Jews.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether Aqrabawi participated in the illegal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/local\/protest-temporarily-closes-mass-ave-bridge\/3324030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protest<\/a> over the weekend, in which hundreds of protesters managed to shut down a Boston bridge for half an hour. According to NBC 10 Boston, which had a crew on scene, no one was arrested while the network&#8217;s reporters were present. Neither MIT nor Aqrabawi responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Aqrabawi&#8217;s call to action comes as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/quick-takes\/2023\/12\/19\/mit-facing-investigation-alleged-title-vi-violations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MIT<\/a> and a host of other schools stand accused of violating Title VI by permitting anti-Israel campus events that endanger students and have led to repeated instances of harassment on campus.<\/p>\n<p>The MIT scientist came under fire last month for going on an anti-Semitic <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/mit-faculty-member-goes-on-anti-semitic-tirade-after-house-ed-committee-requests-documents-from-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tirade<\/a> after the House Committee on Education and the Workforce pressed MIT to provide internal documents about its response to the outbreak of anti-Semitism on campus. In his outburst, Aqrabawi derided Foxx as &#8220;a treasonous Zionist tool, a genocide enabler, and a disgusting shit stain of a human,&#8221; and described other members of the House as &#8220;Israeli bootlickers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also referred to American politicians as &#8220;loyal prostitutes of [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu,&#8221; lamented the influence of Jewish groups, and referred to Israelis as &#8220;parasites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I make it clear your representatives are eager cucks for defense contractors and AIPAC,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajaqrabawi\/status\/1766568682078064746?s=12&#038;t=cVRrOEC7HqoeeefgDh4iIA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;My words are dangerous because they may alert a distracted American public to the parasites using their country as a host species.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Foxx recently <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/harvards-federal-funds-on-chopping-block-for-obstructing-congressional-anti-semitism-probe-house-chair-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> that Aqrabawi is proof &#8220;that there are very, very strong anti-Semitic feelings at MIT\u2014and the university needs to do something about it.&#8221; A committee source similarly told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that Aqrabawi&#8217;s rhetoric proves that the committee&#8217;s probe into MIT is both warranted and justified.<\/p>\n<p>In the past Aqrabawi has referred to Israelis as mentally ill Nazis, language that he acknowledged is &#8220;hateful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hail the man leading an industrial-scale slaughter of an occupied, defenseless people!&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AjAqrabawi\/status\/1717239843904799022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in response to an Oct. 25 address from Netanayhu. &#8220;Zionism is a mental illness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dear ZioNazis of Israel, particularly those supporting this genocide, I hope you never find peace and comfort in life,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AjAqrabawi\/status\/1740365355439059031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in December. &#8220;I hope the ghosts of our 30,000 killed haunt you until you rot out of existence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, this is hateful language,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Don&#8217;t expect me to be full of love and professionalism as this holocaust continues to unfold against my deeply oppressed people.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>Three days after Hamas&#8217;s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Aqrabawi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AjAqrabawi\/status\/1711822496310100340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compared<\/a> Israel&#8217;s retaliatory war against the terrorist group to &#8220;Nazism, disguised as Israeli self-defense.&#8221; Last month, the MIT faculty member claimed Hamas members did not rape Israelis during the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can you point to a single report\/victim?&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZevBenMeirBC\/status\/1753884212682539455?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;Not only can you not substantiate your perverted rape fantasies, you won&#8217;t allow any third-party investigations of their allegations.&#8221; Roughly one month later, a U.N. report <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/un-investigators-confirm-evidence-of-hamas-sexual-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed evidence<\/a> of Hamas terrorists raping Israeli victims.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT faculty member, Afif Aqrabawi, sparked controversy after a congressional committee sought anti-Semitism evidence from the university. Aqrabawi&#8217;s Twitter rant targeted Chairwoman Virginia Foxx, labeling her a &#8220;treasonous Zionist tool,&#8221; raising concerns about hate speech within academic circles. Aqrabawi&#8217;s actions cast a shadow on MIT&#8217;s reputation, drawing attention to the issue of anti-Semitism on campus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":2210705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MixCollage-01-Apr-2024-01-35-PM-5662.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MixCollage-01-Apr-2024-01-35-PM-5662.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}