Outraged advocates for Israel are slamming an upcoming pro-Palestinian event at MIT headlined by Dr. Mads Gilbert — a controversial doctor who they accuse of “hate speech” — and one has demanded the Cambridge university distance itself from Gilbert.

“Mads Gilbert is someone who exploits medicine to promote hate and support violence,” said Robert Trestan, director of the Anti-Defamation League in Boston. “It’s important for (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) as an institution to make it clear that they don’t support violence or the views of Gilbert.”

Two student groups, Palestine@MIT and the university’s Arab Students Organization, announced that Gilbert and professor Noam Chomsky will be part of a panel speaking at the university on Nov. 8, “to discuss the Palestinian Struggle under Israeli Occupation,” according to an announcement on Facebook.

Neither Gilbert nor the two groups could be reached for comment yesterday. Members of MIT’s media relations team also didn’t respond to requests for ?comment.

Gilbert’s visit comes as violence has skyrocketed in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Since mid-September, 11 Israelis were killed in Palestinian attacks and 66 Palestinians died by Israeli fire.

“We’ve seen in Israel in the last six weeks the impact of inciting people to commit violence,” Trestan said.

In addition to broadly condemning the Israeli army while saying little about Hamas attacks in his book, “Night in Gaza,” Gilbert notoriously said terrorists had a “moral right,” to attack the U.S. on 9/11.

“If the U.S. government has a legitimate right to bomb and kill civilians in Iraq, also the oppressed have a moral right to attack the United States with the weapons they had to create. Dead civilians are the same whether they are Americans, Palestinians or Iraqis,” Gilbert was quoted as saying in Dagbladet, a Norwegian newspaper, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, with a reference to U.S. Gulf War era attacks on Iraq.

Gilbert has since called those comments “unwise.” However, the first person to die in the 9/11 attacks was MIT alumnus Daniel Lewin, who was fatally stabbed on American Airlines Flight 11 before hijackers crashed the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

“What in the world are we doing giving somebody like that a platform?” asked Jeffrey Robbins, former head of the local Anti-Defamation League and an attorney at Mintz Levin law firm. “The anti-Israeli platform has become so trendy that ?hate speech has become somehow OK on liberal ?college campuses.”