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MIT Faculty Member Urges Followers To Shut Down Israeli Company in Cambridge

Afif Aqrabawi went on anti-Semitic tirade after congressional committee requested anti-Semitism docs from school

Afif Aqrabawi (Twitter), MIT (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty member who last month went on an anti-Semitic tirade—in which he called House Education and the Workforce Committee chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.) a “treasonous Zionist tool” and referred to Israelis as “parasites”—is now urging his followers to shut down an Israeli company in Cambridge, saying, “No stoping [sic] until liberation.”

Afif Aqrabawi, a postdoctoral associate working in MIT’s Tonegawa neuroscience lab, encouraged his Twitter followers to shut down an Israeli company located in Cambridge, Mass. The MIT faculty member was responding to a Twitter follower’s suggestion to shut down a Raytheon facility in Bedford, Mass., to which he

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