MIT says cutting research ties with Israeli military would ‘violate academic freedom’

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MIT says cutting research ties with Israeli military would ‘violate academic freedom’

Senior leaders at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and pro-Palestinian student protesters who have established an encampment on the school’s Cambridge campus appear to have reached an impasse on negotiations to resolve the protest, with the university saying students’ chief demand — that it no longer accept funding from the Israeli military for research — violates “academic freedom.”