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Repression of Palestine Solidarity at Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Part 1

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley 17 May 2024

Austin Cole is a graduate student in urban planning and business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. 

He was due to graduate but has been suspended due to his activity with the Palestine solidarity encampment which demanded that MIT divest itself of any support of Israel. 

He joins us from Boston to discuss the encampment and his own experience with the attack directed by the state and carried out by MIT. This is the first part of a two-part interview.

“I heard you in the other room asking your mother, ‘Mama, am I a Palestinian?’ When she answered ‘Yes’ a heavy silence fell on the whole house. It was as if something hanging over our heads had fallen, its noise exploding, then – silence. Afterwards…I heard you crying. I could not move. There was something bigger than my awareness being born in the other room through your bewildered sobbing. It was as if a blessed scalpel was cutting up your chest and putting there the heart that belongs to you…I was unable to move to see what was happening in the other room. I knew, however, that a distant homeland was being born again: hills, olive groves, dead people, torn banners and folded ones, all cutting their way into a future of flesh and blood and being born in the heart of another child…Do you believe that man grows? No, he is born suddenly – a word, a moment, penetrates his heart to a new throb. One scene can hurl him down from the ceiling of childhood onto the ruggedness of the road.”
― Ghassan Kanafani

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