Talia Khan, a Jewish graduate student at MIT who testified about rising antisemitism on campus, will attend the State of the Union address as a guest of House Speaker Johnson.
Khan said the invite sends a message that Jewish students cannot be silenced, as MIT and other universities fail to address antisemitism.
Khan described feeling traumatized by violent protests and intimidation at MIT, while the administration does not help.
Thank you @ADL and @JGreenblattADL for sharing my speech and helping raise awareness about these issues on campus! https://t.co/3qhV8wOeKU
— Talia Khan (@TaliaKhan_MIT) March 2, 2024
“I’m grateful that Speaker Johnson is showing that he is listening to the Jewish students on campuses and taking our concerns seriously by inviting me to the State of the Union,” Khan said. “It is an important message to universities that they cannot continue to try to silence us.”
“Talia Khan has courageously exposed the pain many Jewish students are experiencing as antisemites and Hamas-sympathizes are supported by Democrat-backed university administrators,” Johnson said. “I’m proud to have Talia join me as my guest for the State of the Union as House Republicans stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters against antisemitism.”
She and other faculty resigned from an antisemitism advisory council due to being ignored.
Khan warned losing talented Jewish students threatens U.S. innovation and national security.
“Jews are forced to tiptoe around, being careful to follow all rules to a T, hiding our Jewish clothing and symbols, while anti-Israel students and faculty bring outside mobs and continue to break rules, uninhibited by the feckless MIT administration,” Khan said. “I am left scared and vulnerable, as the MIT administration repeatedly intimidates me and other Jews into taking our Israeli flags down from our offices, though we still see Palestinian flags, and flags representing other nationalities and identities, waving freely around campus.”
“The faculty who took part on the faculty antisemitism advisory committee grew so tired of being discounted and ignored by Kornbluth’s administration that every single one resigned.”
“For America to maintain its status as the most innovative country in the world, we must ensure safety for all in our leading academic institutions, like MIT,” she said. “Losing great minds at MIT to shelter terrorism supporting student groups is a national security threat, and everyone on and off campus should be concerned.”
She thanked Johnson for recognizing the bipartisan issue of supporting Jewish students, saying campus antisemitism reflects a moral failure of higher education.
“The rampant antisemitism we are now seeing on campuses all across the country reflects a deep moral rot at the core of our nation’s higher educational institutions,” Khan said. “Those attacking Jewish students not only hold dangerous and unacceptable antisemitic views, but also harbor attitudes completely antithetical to American values.”
Other Speaker Johnson guests will include families of those held hostage or attacked.
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