JNS: House Ed committee requests information about continued hostility towards Jews at MIT

Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), chair of the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee, is requesting additional information about recent incidents of antisemitism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In a Dec. 12 letter sent to Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT, Walberg noted that while the committee had documented “a series of deeply troubling antisemitic incidents” at the private university in Cambridge, in March 2024, “this hostility appears to have continued throughout 2025.”

“In 2025, students have allegedly continued to distribute ‘terror maps’ demarcating campus buildings linked to Jews and Israelis,” the chairman wrote. “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 stated that the committee also remains “deeply concerned about incidents that occurred in 2023 and 2024, including the harassment of a Jewish Ph.D. student by an MIT professor—a case that MIT’s anti-discrimination office allegedly refused to investigate.”

The committee is specifically requesting documents, communications and records since Oct. 7, 2023, related to antisemitism and complaints of potential antisemitic incidents, no later than Dec. 22.