Rania Khalaf removed herself from the April 2025 conference "MIT Arab Science and Technology Confence" due to unspecified pro-Palestinian tweets from fellow Palestinian Susan Abulhawa.

Although Rania's public persona indicates that she condemns the occupation's warcrimes, upon deeper examination it was discovered that in her professional sphere she has quietly conducted research in collaboration with major tech firm and genocide profiteer, IBM - specifically IBM Israel. This is an organization that, directly and indirectly, has been connected to the technological infrastructure sustaining the occupation.

Further, many news reports state that Israel has used artificial intelligence to select targets in Gaza during the current genocide, so advancing the field of AI in partnership with Israel is very concerning.