MIT researcher visits encampment, condemns anti-Israel protests and school leaders: We are being harassed [Video]

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher is calling out his university leaders for allowing an encampment on school grounds to continue operations, suggesting that protesters are acting like “kids” and failing to understand the complexities of what is happening in Gaza.  

Lior Alon, a postdoctorate mathematical physics researcher at MIT, told Fox News Digital that the legitimacy of Israel should not be questioned and said Jews deserve to have a country to call home—though it should be open to all people. 

Describing himself as a Zionist, Alon said he does not feel ashamed of the label and is often very vocal against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government. 

Alon first witnessed protesters at the MIT campus on Oct. 9. At the time, he was still learning that one of his good friends had been killed in the Hamas terrorist attacks two days earlier. His best friend’s fiancé was also brutally murdered and possibly raped during …