The MIT Coalition for Palestine has announced victory in pressuring the university to cut ties with the MIT-Lockheed Martin Seed Fund.

"This is the first known American-Israeli weapons manufacturer partnership to end at an American university since the war on Gaza began,” it added.

According to the statement, the Lockheed Martin Seed Fund has, since 2019, been a program administered by the MIT International Science and Technology Initiative Israel, or MISTI-Israel, to connect students and researchers on this campus to the Israeli offices of Lockheed Martin, a global arms manufacturer.

“Well not with MIT labor anymore. Under pressure from students and scientists of conscience at this Institute, the MIT administration has discontinued MISTI-Israel’s Lockheed Martin Seed Fund and will not renew its contract,” the coalition stated.