MIT ‘embarrassed’ by new book on campus anti-Semitism, professor says
It’s quieter than usual”.Sheffi used interviews with MIT students and faculty to fashion a version of recent campus history. The book includes accounts from roughly 40 people, he said, as well as his own observations.He will pay some US$20,000 (S$25,900) out of his own pocket for a marketing firm to help promote the book, he said.
- ▪It’s quieter than usual”.Sheffi used interviews with MIT students and faculty to fashion a version of recent campus history.
- ▪The book includes accounts from roughly 40 people, he said, as well as his own observations.He will pay some US$20,000 (S$25,900) out of his own pocket for a marketing firm to help promote the book, he said.
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MIT ‘embarrassed’ by new book on campus anti-Semitism, professor saysSign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Mark ArsenaultPublished Jun 26, 2026, 09:04 AMUpdated Jun 26, 2026, 09:31 AMSet as preferred sourceListenMASSACHUSETTS – After months of student protests related to the Gaza Strip war in 2023 and 2024, some prominent schools in the US, such as Harvard University and Columbia University, appointed select committees to interview students and write painful public reports about bias on campus.The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where some Jewish people on campus said protests had created a hostile environment, did not publish a lengthy committee report on anti-Semitism.So, a professor began his own.Yossi Sheffi, an MIT faculty member for the past 48 years, said…
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