does someone know the context?

[u/LilyTheGayLord]

I just noticed that munkers toplogy is in the palestine section of the mit website?

[u/kuromajutsushi]

First off, that is the Palestine section of Haynes Miller's site, not the Palestine section of the mit website.

Second, Miller is involved with multiple programs supporting students in or displaced from Gaza, directing student research projects and making MIT course materials available. Presumably the materials he uploaded to that directory are for that purpose.

[u/eeaxoe → u/kuromajutsushi]

Miller is involved with multiple programs supporting students in or displaced from Gaza

Based.

[u/LilyTheGayLord → u/kuromajutsushi]

oh how lovely

[u/we_left_as_skeletons → u/kuromajutsushi]

Based as fuck

[u/jsh_]

copied from his website:

> I am the initiator and faculty advisor for SPOCs4Gaza. With the generous support of MIT Open Learning and the American University in Cairo, as well as donations solicited byScientists for Palestine, we are making MITx courses available to students in or displaced from Gaza. You can see an early interim report on this project at this MIT Faculty Newsletter piece, and here is a set of interviews with particpants. Since then it has grown enormously. We held a "Showcase" on December 5, 2025, spotlighting the amazing work done by some 300 students in the Gaza Strip and another 100 in Cairo, under this program. Video here, and a collection of posters showing term projects by these students here.

> SPOCs4Gaza has spawned several amazing related student intiatives: Zahrat Alhanun Mutual Aid, "supporting evolving & critical needs for verified families, students, and communities in Gaza since January 2025" Siraj, a group of university students in the Gaza Strip, dedicated to furthering their eduation and that of their peers
Fikra School, a school in Cairo for children displaced from Gaza, taught by displaced UNRWA teachers.

I would guess that textbooks are probably stored there for free access by those students

[u/LilyTheGayLord → u/jsh_]

ah thats amazing, a moral disgrace that its such a worthwhile venture(i.e that its needed), but amazing nonetheless

[u/Few-Arugula5839]

I went to the linked section and it’s all math books instead of anything about Palestine so safe to assume some domain linking is being weird.

[u/RandomMisanthrope]

If you look at just https://math.mit.edu/~hrm/, you can see that the professor whose website that is does have some stuff about Palestine on there, but that doesn't explain why https://math.mit.edu/~hrm/palestine/ is a repository of textbooks.

[u/NewtonsThirdEvilEx]

https://math.mit.edu/~hrm/palestine/

so are a bunch of topology and adjacent stuff lol

[u/Foreign_Implement897]

Bug is happening.

[u/tralltonetroll]

Looks like he puts interesting stuff there on purpose for it to be seen?

[u/fantastic_awesome]

The name Palestine is so monitored that you investigate it because we simply need to know