At the commencement ceremony, Indian-born Megha Vemuri’s pro-Palestine talk was criticized by Speaker Mike Johnson as ignorant, cruel, and socially bankrupt. Johnson even criticized MIT when he questioned why it hadn’t effectively responded. The Speaker was responding to a comment made by MAGA critic Megyn Kelly that criticized Vemuri’s animosity toward the Israeli students attending the meeting. Have your kids stay away from MIT and the Ivy League, Johnson urged. Any attack to the Jewish kids or other attendees be damned because this person hijacks the MIT graduating to make the entire thing about her personal values about Israel. Megyn Kelly wrote on X as Megha Vemuri’s statement criticizing her alma mater for its Jewish relationships drew mixed reactions. Many of her peers cheered and even protested on Friday as MIT forbade Vemuri from attending the rest of the occasion. Vemuri was criticized and questioned by many Jewish students as well as some American commentators and members of the MAGA. Vemuri delivered a unique speech to the MIT management, which was accepted, but she also delivered a different speech, praising her classmates for opposing Israel. The bachelor body and doctoral student union at MIT voted overwhelmingly to end ties to the Israeli military, according to a statement from the college. You demanded a steadfast peace in Gaza. And you backed the school pro-Palestinian protesters in your support. You were subject to intimidation, harassment, and repression, particularly from your own school officials, Vemuri said. Vemuri accused MIT of being a responsible in the “ongoing holocaust of the Arab people” as Jewish students walked out of the conversation.
What Vemuri’s speech’s author said at MIT
While MIT said they support completely appearance but don’t stand by what Vemuri did, Vemuri was prohibited from attending the rest of the occasion. The conversation a graduating senior delivered on Thursday at the OneMIT Commencement Ceremony was not the one that the speaker had given in advance regarding MIT’s Commencement 2025 actions. She was informed that she would not be permitted to attend today’s events even though she had a scheduled part at the Bachelor Degree Ceremony, according to a MIT spokesperson on Friday. MIT supports free expression, but it still supports its decision, which was made in response to the person who had been deliberately and constantly deceiving Commencement organizers and staging a protest outside the venue, causing a significant Institute ceremony.
