Incident occurred near school Jewish institutions
A Israeli student at the University of Michigan claimed he was assaulted on Sunday, and police are looking into it, according to a media release.
The adult student, 19, reported to the Ann Arbor Police Department that a group of men approached him and inquired if he was Israeli while he was walking along Hill and South Forest roads.
When the pupil replied indeed, he was assaulted by the party, sustaining minor injuries, police said. The reported perpetrators fled on foot, according to authorities.
Chief Andre Anderson claimed to have informing the University of Michigan police, and that they are looking into the event as a possible “ethnic intimidation.”
” Our objective is to discuss security over the next few months”, Anderson said. There is no place in the City of Ann Arbor for love or cultural repression.
Anderson stated that the office is” committed to actively investigating this and other hate-motivated situations.”
The event occurred near two school Israeli businesses, The Jewish Telegraph Agency reports:
The target of the alleged assault on Sunday was attacked on a school that is home to several Israeli fraternities and sororities, as well as Michigan Hillel and the Hebrew Resource Center, an island of the Catholic student referral group Olami. Prior to the Oct. 7 assault on Israel, student athletes painted racist graffiti on the Olami centre, which students afterwards apologized in public.
Rabbi Davey Rosen, the university’s director, informed the group in a speech that he had spoken with the school, law enforcement, and a Jewish protection organization and that he had been providing an “update that no Hillel producer wants to take out .”
” The health of our kids is our highest focus, and we appreciate law enforcement’s rapid response. We are aware that this is hard news to hear, especially as the school season is only beginning,” he wrote.
Santa Ono, president of the university, urged anyone with information about the alleged assault to call officers in a statement on Monday.
We firmly oppose and denounce this violent action and all other hate crimes. Antisemitism is in direct conflict with the school’s deeply held values of security, admiration and incorporation and has no place within our community”, Ono said in the speech.
Another incident that allegedly targeted a Jewish university regent was reported in June.
The law office of Regent Jordan Acker was demolished with pro-Palestinian graffiti, including red paint written” Divest now” and” Divest or f— off” across his Southfield office, according to The College Fix at the time.
Acker described the crime as an act of “antisemitism”, noting that he was the only regent targeted and he is Jewish.
After the UM Board of Regents rejected pro-Palestinian protesters ‘ demands to divest from businesses with connections to Israel, vandalism took place.
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