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U of Michigan fires DEI official over purported antisemitic comments

December 13, 2024December 13, 2024Sara Wood

The University of Michigan has fired a director in its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion office owing to antisemitic comments she made to Jewish professors at a spring conference. The New York Times first reported the firing, which a person with insight into the university’s governing body confirmed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Friday. The […]

U of Michigan student president impeached after calling critics ‘Zionists’

November 13, 2024November 14, 2024Sara Wood

The University of Michigan’s student body president entered office last semester on a campaign to shut down all “business as usual” — including funding student groups — until the school agreed to divest from Israel. Now that effort — one of the most sustained and assertive pro-Palestinian protests on a college campus — may be […]