University of Michigan Festifall 2024 featuring a growing pro-Palestinian die-in demonstration at the Diag hosted by the @TahrirUmich #umich pic.twitter.com/M5zT3L2CM3
— Sarah Rahal (@SarahRahal_) August 28, 2024
BREAKING: Arrests made at the University of Michigan after police mobilized to stop a pro-Palestine demonstration at The Diag during Festifall on campus pic.twitter.com/xQPF3zYWGZ
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) August 28, 2024
Announcement from the University of Michigan Police Department stating “if you are laying on the ground and obstructing The Diag, you are in violation of Section 750.552 of Michigan Compiled Laws, trespass after warning” pic.twitter.com/Zl7HsKPTeW
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) August 28, 2024
It’s a new school year.
It’s still illegal to protest Jews in America.
The University of Michigan’s club fair quickly descended into chaos Wednesday afternoon when police shut down an anti-Israel protest after a day of antics from student activists.
The protesters, there to demand that the school divest from all companies that support Israel, identified themselves as members of the TAHRIR Coalition, whose name is an acronym for “Transparency, Accountability, Humanity, Reparations, Investment, and Resistance.”
The school’s club fair was disrupted almost immediately by a sit-in of a few dozen anti-Israel demonstrators chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — a slogan that implies the state of Israel must be eliminated.
A group of pro-Israel counter-protesters also quickly gathered, holding American and Israeli flags.
The anti-Israel protestors, who did not have a permit to demonstrate, passed out fliers listing their demands that the school divest from “Israeli apartheid and genocide,” establish a “People’s Audit,” boycott Israeli academic institutions, and abolish campus policing.
I love that the Jews are flying both the Jewish flag and the American flag as their banners.
Maybe people need to consider the meaning of that?
Not only that, the counter-protestors were jeering and singing as the arrest was being made. And, as we have all come to expect, the cops only targeted the pro-palestinian protestors. https://t.co/OcLk0xeAqk pic.twitter.com/OSAwcaIbXd
— Basit Zafar (@basit_ak_zafar) August 28, 2024