🚨 MIT activists announced a major divestment victory: forcing the end of the MISTI-Israel Lockheed Martin Fund after sustained pressure by activists.

It is the first American-"israeli" weapons manufacturer to have ended at at American university since October 7th.

The program ran for five years through a partnership between MIT and weapons producer Lockheed Martin through the "MISTI-Israel" program. Lockheed Martin is one of the largest arms producers and among the worst polluters globally.

The activists stated: "Lockheed Martin has sold several billion dollars of weapons to the apartheid state of Israel and profited from the genocidal war on Gaza. In particular, Lockheed has supplied the Israeli government with Hellfire missiles, attack aircraft, and heavy artillery which they have used to destroy Palestinian society in Gaza over the past year: its schools, hospitals, universities, holy sites, and vital infrastructure – directly killing tens of thousands of Palestinians and expelling millions in the process. Lockheed has also enabled the far-right, fanatical government of Benjamin Netanyahu, an MIT alumnus, to run torture camps in Sde Teiman and impose a regime of apartheid in East Jerusalem and the West Bank."

As of today, and due to pressure from students and scientists at MIT, the university has discontinued the Lockheed Martin Seed Fund and does not plan to renew it. Several disruptive protests were held in the vicinity of the site with a clear message that the partnership should end.

Lockheed Martin was a major target of the activists, but the work does not stop here. MIT activists noted their university's ties to the ongoing IOF aggression against the northern West Bank and direct research funding links to the IOF. They note that MIT still maintains partnerships with Elbit Systems (the zionist entity's largest weapons manufacturer) and Maersk (which transports weapons to the IOF), among others. The activists vowed to continue pressuring the university through a variety of tactics until these partnerships are fully cut.

You may read the full press release at mitsage.org.
Faculty and staff released a press release in solidarity, which you may find on the page.
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Tens of thousands of settlers are protesting tonight in "Tel Aviv," Al-Quds, Haifa, Caesarea, "Kiryat Gat" and elsewhere in occupied Palestine to demand that the zionist government complete a prisoner exchange deal with the Palestinian resistance.

After the IOF killed a number of zionist captives, the protestors are chanting: "We want them alive, alive, alive!"
They also held up a sign that read, "To return all captives to their homes, we must withdraw from Gaza!"