"As scientists, engineers, academics and leaders, we have a commitment to support life, support aid efforts and call for an arms embargo, and keep demanding now as alumni that MIT cuts the ties," she said.
After telling students to turn their rings around so the MIT emblem faces outward, the student said that the school "is directly complicit in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, and so we carry with us the obligation to do everything we can to stop it."
Sally Kornbluth, the MIT president who has retained her job unlike the presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, who testified alongside her in December 2023 at a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on Jew-hatred, spoke following Vemuri.