‘Violation’: Indian-origin Megha Vemuri, family was banned from MIT program after Palestine’s speech

Indian-American student Megha Vemuri was stopped from the program starting on Friday, when the class president used his platform to speak for Palestine a day earlier. The Boston Globe reported that Vemuri was about to martial for the ceremony starting on Friday, but MIT Chancellor Melissa Nobles sent her an email on Friday morning, stating that she could not attend the event and was banned from the campus for most of the day and her family. “Participation in initial activities is a privilege,” nobles wrote in email. “You mislead the organizers intentionally and repeatedly. While we accept your right to free expression, your decision to lead protests from the stage, disrupts an important institution function, violated the rules of MIT, location and methods for expression of the campus.”Vemuri responded to Mail and said that his speech had “a protest from the stage” and the campus ban was “an overlapping”. A MIT spokesperson said in a statement that the institute “stands up with its decision” from the campus to Bar Vemuri and said that the speech he gave was “he was not the one who was provided in advance by the speaker.”

Protest on ban on Vemuri

Melissa Nobles had to stop her speech on Friday as due to the mantras of students opposing the ban on Vemuri. “Sorry, I respect you that you have a message to send, but it’s not time or location,” Nobles said on Friday on the voice of protest. “Today is about our graduates and their families. Please respect them and allow me to continue.”Vemuri slammed MIT in his speech for his relations with Israel and accused MIT of being “directly complicated in the ongoing massacre of the Palestinian people”. Vemuri loudly told Cheers, “You have faced a barrier of fear first and you have turned into fuel to correct it.