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Fireside chat with MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi

Dear All,

Please join us on September 23, 2026 at 4:00pm EST for an exclusive Fireside Chat with MIT Engineering Professor, Yossi Sheffi, who will discuss his recently released book, “Unsafe at MIT: A Chronicle of a Campus War on the Jews”.

Professor Sheffi will be interviewed by founding member and leader of MIT JAA, Dr. Lori Ullman.

To Learn More and Register please view our event on Eventbrite.

Dr. Sheffi will discuss the rise of Jew-hate - both traditional antisemitism and its ideological and political decoy, antizionism - that has flourished on MIT’s campus following the massacre of October 7 and its impact on the learning environment and overall social and academic climate at MIT.

Dr. Sheffi will share excerpts from dozens of testimonies of MIT students and staff who shared with him their first-person experiences with targeted hostility and with religious and ethnic discrimination within the institute.

He’ll share with us his views on the current state of antisemitism at MIT and address how antisemitism at all levels throughout the institute has broadly influenced and reshaped academic life, social life, and sense of belonging for its Jewish community.

There will be an opportunity throughout the Chat to share questions and perspectives with Professor Sheffi.

Registration to this Fireside Chat is limited so register now!

About our featured guest:

Yossi Sheffi is Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, and author of nine award-winning books. Born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, Dr. Sheffi obtained his BSc from Technion and his SM and PhD from MIT. Dr. Sheffi currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.

An on-the-ground witness to the growing effects of antisemitism and antizionism on campus since the massacre of October 7 and the impact they have had on higher education, professor Sheffi brings a broad and thoughtful perspective to this crucial conversation.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear directly from Dr. Sheffi, a first-hand witness to the antisemitism at MIT and its impact on Jewish life on campus.

Highly Recommended Reading: Dr. Sheffi’s book: “Unsafe at MIT: A Chronicle of a Campus War on the Jews”

MIT JAA Executive Committee

Newly Published Book by MIT Professor, Yossi Sheffi

Releasing July 7, 2026

MIT professor, Yossi Sheffi, has just published a book chronicling antisemitism at MIT. Well-researched and extensively documented, Professor Sheffi’s book offers first-hand testimony on the current state of MIT campus life and addresses how antisemitism at all levels throughout the institute has broadly influenced and reshaped academic life, social life, and sense of belonging for its Jewish community.

“Unsafe at MIT: A Chronicle of a Campus War on the Jews” is available for kindle pre-order and available for purchase July 7, 2026 at local book stores and online at Amazon.com .

Registration is now closed and the event has ended

MIT JAA hosted an exclusive webinar featuring renowned author and speaker, Dr. Andrew Pessin, author of the highly acclaimed book, “Israel Breathes, World Condemns”, where he skillfully unmasked the roots of antizionism. The event was moderated by MIT Physics Professor and co-founder of the Kalaniyot Foundation, Dr. Or Hen, and included an introduction by Dr. Lori Ullman, a founding member and leader of MIT JAA.

To Learn More: The Protocols of the Elders of Antizionism: History of an Ideology

About our featured speaker:

Andrew Pessin, is a philosopher, author, thought leader, and former Campus Bureau Editor for “The Algemeiner”. He recently launched a new platform for study and analysis of antizionism, “Institute for the Critical Study of Antizionism" (ICSA). An expert with first-hand experience and knowledge, his insights into antisemitism and antizionism and the impact they have on higher education give him a broad and thoughtful perspective in this crucial conversation, and a pivotal voice in the discussion. Highly Recommended Reading: Dr. Pessin’s book, “Isreal Breathes, World Condemns” (2 vols.).

ISRAEL BREATHES. WORLD CONDEMNS.: Volume I: The Trajectory (Before October 7, from the Campus Front)

ISRAEL BREATHES. WORLD CONDEMNS.: Volume II: The Aftermath (Reverberations and Reflections on October 7, from the Campus Front)

Event has concluded: The Protocols of the Elders of Antizionism: History of an Ideology

Open Letter to President Kornbluth and the MIT Corporation regarding antisemitism training

October 27, 2025

There is no higher duty of a university than its obligation to ensure the safety and wellbeing of its academic community. For more than two years, MIT’s Jewish community has faced - at times daily - an unprecedented surge of antisemitic acts generated from all corners of the MIT campus. These bold and unapologetic acts of Jew-hatred have ranged from harassment and intimidation, to vandalism and malicious destruction of personal property. They include subjecting students to antisemitic slurs, verbal assaults, and direct and indirect threats.

• painting swastikas on an Israeli-Jewish postdoc’s car

• throwing an Israeli-Jewish postdoc’s computer into the toilet

• harassing Jewish students on social media, including by a tenured MIT professor

• directly targeting students by name using flyers styled after Hamas headbands, distributed in the student dormitory

• disrupting classes with calls for violence that target a specific minority with shared history

• blockading and physically preventing Jewish students from attending classes

• defacing MIT property (the chalking of MIT property outside Stata) that if not with the intent, resulted in the effect of creating a threat to the Jewish MIT community

• issuing threats to an MIT professor engaging in academic collaboration with Israeli science and technology companies

• spreading Jewish libels, including one by an MIT DEI officer who claimed to a student seeking support and redress from harassment from such claims, that the organ harvesting libel stating that Israelis use Palestinians for organ harvesting is a “confimed report”.

• imposing social pressures and direct threats of violence that result in the need for Jewish students to hide their Jewish identities

• ostracizing Jewish and Jewish-Israeli students by marginalizing them, including an incident of eviction of a postdoctoral student from his academic research lab

• targeting and profaning the campus Center for Jewish Life through a student’s visibly urinating on the wall of the Hillel building during an ongoing event held within

• chanting “From the River to the Sea” and “Globalize the Intifada”, both phrases which - following the October 7 massacre of Jewish civilians, and with historical use by groups such as Hamas as a call for the destruction of Israel and annihilation of the Jewish people - are now held by many court rulings as calling for violence against Jews …

The March on Washington for Jewish Civil Rights, June 26, 2025

The March on Washington for Jewish Civil Rights, with MIT JAA among several sponsoring groups, took place on June 26, 2025 at the U.S Capitol Grounds, Union Square, Washington D.C. in memory of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.

JNS - House ed panel will keep probing ‘scourge’ of campus Jew-hatred:

“Fighting antisemitism means we must understand it,” Rep. Tim Walberg said at the March on Washington for Jewish Civil Rights.

Today, Chairman @RepWalberg joined the March on Washington for Jewish Civil Rights to highlight the Committee's work to stop the antisemitism spreading in America's classrooms.

The Committee is resolute in its efforts to defend Jewish students.https://t.co/SNHDmOKhgM pic.twitter.com/VahO38MkL0

— House Committee on Education & Workforce (@EdWorkforceCmte) June 26, 2025

Follow @marchforcivilrights on instagram and @MarchForCR on X for more information!

Statement from MIT JAA regarding MIT 2025 graduation ceremony

Posted May 30, 2025

Yesterday, during the MIT 2025 graduation, a student speaker wrapped in a keffiyeh took the opportunity to hijack the ceremony and to dedicate the entirety of her speech to berating and defaming Israel and promoting Hamas-inspired propaganda. One attendee, who travelled from Israel with his family to receive his Ph.D. diploma, commented that his children were distraught over the speech, and he needed to explain to them why a random person half-way across the world hates them.

This is not what a graduation ceremony is meant to be. A graduation ceremony is meant to honor its graduates and their accomplishments.

MIT JAA is profoundly disappointed in the MIT leadership and administration who failed to prevent a rogue student from taking over yesterday’s graduation ceremony that was meant to celebrate the achievements of its student body.

MIT JAA is also profoundly disappointed in President Sally Kornbluth, who, speaking immediately after the student speaker, failed to address or acknowledge what had transpired.

We expect MIT to take immediate disciplinary action against this student speaker.