Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) class of 2025 president Megha M. Vemuri has been banned from campus following a divisive speech that University officials say was not part of what Vemuri submitted for approval.
During a speech at Thursday’s commencement event, Vemuri hijacked a special moment for 1,000+ fellow graduates and their families to push her own woke agenda.
In her speech, she accused MIT of being part of wiping “Palestine from the face of the Earth.”
“Last spring, MIT’s undergraduate body and graduate student union voted overwhelmingly to cut ties with the genocidal Israeli military. You called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. And you stood in solidarity with the pro-Palestinian activists on campus,” Vemuri said while draped in a keffiyeh.
“You faced threats, intimidation and suppression coming from all directions, especially your own university officials.”
Her comments drew a mixed reaction with some attendees cheering while others booed and yelled “Shame,” and some disgusted attendees walked out.
University officials said in a statement that the decision to ban Vemuri graduation was because the speech she delivered was different than the speech she submitted to officials prior to the event.
“While that individual had a scheduled role at today’s Undergraduate Degree Ceremony, she was notified that she would not be permitted at today’s events,” said university spokesperson Kimberly Allen.
Per WBUR:
In a written statement, MIT leadership added that they stand by the punishment they issued to Vemuri.
“MIT supports free expression but stands by its decision, which was in response to the individual deliberately and repeatedly misleading Commencement organizers and leading a protest from the stage, disrupting an important Institute ceremony,” read the statement.
That @MIT trains woke minds that fail to see the only genocidal entity in Gaza is Hamas is known.
But to ignore warnings & allow the class president to deliver hateful & dividing speech with no response from President Kornbluth who followed, shows the gravity of the situation!… pic.twitter.com/yFiEm6Ql1o
— Retsef Levi (@RetsefL) May 29, 2025
Megha Vemuri, President of MIT’s Class of 2025, got up on stage during her graduation—not to thank her classmates or talk about their hard work—but to give a speech on Palestine.
Yes, because nothing says “leader” like using someone else’s special day to push your own… pic.twitter.com/uDo9UnJJ4m
— Satyaagrah (@satyaagrahindia) May 30, 2025
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