U-M cancels Hamas–Israel war referendums.
Tag: Palestine
A Litmus Test for Free Speech on Campus
The university’s response to student demonstrations on the Hamas–Israel war will speak volumes about free speech.
The U-M Student Body Will Vote on an Anti-Israel Ballot Question
Assembly Resolution 13-025 finds Israel responsible for “genocide” and “apartheid.”
Michigan Responds to Terrorist Attacks in Israel
The U-M administration, campus groups, and Michigan residents demonstrate after Hamas launches terrorist attacks in Israel.
Central Student Government’s Lies About Israel
As a Jewish student at the University of Michigan, the last two weeks have been extremely stressful and frightening. I have witnessed the active curtailment of the Jewish voice on campus. Square boxes with acontextual information, videos of rocket explosions and burning buses, and infographics with unverifiable figures are all being used to diminish the […]
Jewish students outraged after UMich student government accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing, war crimes
Disclaimer: This article was first published in The College Fix on May 12 and has been republished here with the permission of the editors. It remains unaltered aside from this note. Leaders of the University of Michigan’s Central Student Government issued a strongly worded statement Monday night accusing Israel of “inhumane, international war crimes” toward […]
SAFE Unveils #UMMolest
Last night, the BDS resolution proposed by Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) failed to pass Central Student Government for the second year in a row. The proposal petitioned the University to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) companies involved in commercial affairs with Israel. After a long-fought #UMDivest campaign that resulted in 25 […]
In Response to the Daily: Debunking the BDS Myths
On April 21st, Rami Faraj authored an article titled “An unsafe campus climate,” featured in The Michigan Daily in which he dismissed the barrage of insults targeted at pro-Israel students and death threats received by CSG officials. He went on to accuse Jews (codeword: Zionists) of theft: “you have taken our lands, taken our rights, and are […]
On the ASA Boycott of Israeli Universities
This past December, members of the American Studies Association, the United States’ oldest and largest academic association dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of American history and culture, passed a resolution endorsing a boycott of Israeli universities. In the election that led to this endorsement, which drew the largest number of participants in the organization’s history, […]