The vandalism comes after the university’s new student government threatened to withhold funding from all student groups until the university agreed to divest from Israel.
'While most students are very willing to have respectful, open debates about Israel, they’re no longer going to tolerate lawlessness, harassment or blatant violations of policies and procedures.'
The conference comes after the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights launched two investigations into UCLA for its repeated failure to 'prevent a hostile campus environment for its Jewish campus community.'
'These images come from the playbook of Hitler and Goebbels. They invoke the most classical—and most genocidal—anti-Semitic conspiracy theories,' said University of Michigan student Alexa Smith.
'You are not to use student requests for recommendations as a platform to discuss your personal political beliefs,' the University of Michigan told anti-Israel lecturer Cheney-Lippold.
The student government’s ethics committee at the University of Michigan unanimously voted not to take disciplinary action against a Jewish student who was under investigation for challenging anti-Israel demonstrators on campus.
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