Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) has sent a letter to Dr. Sally Kornbluth, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), seeking more information about recent antisemitic incidents on the university’s campus.
“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,” Walberg wrote.
The letter further states: “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.”
Walberg’s letter concludes with a request for documents, communications, and records from October 7, 2023 onward related to antisemitism or complaints regarding potential antisemitic incidents at MIT.
