MIT students berate Israeli prof at talk, bizarrely swipe boxes of free pizza

That’ll show ‘em. 

Anti-Israel students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lashed out at an Israeli guest professor during an on-campus talk about his recent military experience — and bizarrely swiped a bevy of free pizzas at the event.

On Wednesday, Shahar Kvatinsky, a visiting electrical and computer engineering professor at the University of Toronto, spoke at an MIT Israel Alliance event about serving in Gaza for four months as an IDF reservist officer in the wake of Oct. 7 massacre.

As he recounted uncovering troves of weapons stored in Gazans’ homes and detailed the Israeli military’s strict rules of engagement, one woman got up, silently grabbed four pizza boxes, and briefly stepped out into the hallway before returning to the talk, attendees told The Post. 

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When the moderator opened up the discussion to a Q&A with the roughly 50 attendees, the pizza pilferer berated Kvatinsky, asking him how he could sleep at night knowing that he’d stand trial for war crimes and later calling the academic a “murderer,” according to Will Sussman, an MIT computer science student who attended the event.

Other students piled on, calling Kvatinsky a genocidal war criminal and questioning him about claims that IDF soldiers raped women, according to attendees.

“Facts don’t matter to them,” Kvatinsky told The Post. “They just memorized some texts they [wanted] to say, and it’s unrelated to the facts.”

Amid the fracas, two more students grabbed another five pies as they bolted from the room, while another student waved a “MIT Jews oppose genocide” sign as he exited the talk, Sussman said.  

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“Some in the audience were pretty upset by things these students were saying but it was mostly just strange that they thought taking pizzas from an event is going to accomplish anything,” Sussman said.

Social media users panned the brazen students for storming off with nine pies after haranguing the prof.

“Like Hamas stealing aid. They are mimicking their heroes,” one user wrote.

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“This is Pizzacide!” another chimed.

The Cambridge, Massachusetts, institution is one of dozens of universities nationwide that has seen anti-Israel and antisemitic hate play out in the wake of Hamas’ murderous Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish state that killed 1,200 civilians.  

In March, the powerful, Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce accused the storied university of failing to protect Jewish students and demanded it hand over evidence of how it has handled complaints of antisemitism on campus. 

Talia Khan, president of the MIT Israel Alliance, testified to the congressional committee in December that a survey found 70% of Jewish students on campus felt compelled to hide their religious identity out of fear.