Similar incidents occurred over the summer when the home of the Jewish university monarch was also the target.
The house of University of Michigan President Santa Ono was vandalized with anti-Israel painting on Monday, the celebration of the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel, according to authorities.
According to WXYZ News 7, the theft occurred several days before a pro-Palestinian opposition on the school, where one pupil was detained.
Maybe overnight, police said Ono’s West Bloomfield house was covered in spray-painted thoughts, including “intifada”,” coward”, and “divest”, MLive information. According to the report, Ono now reside in a different house on campus.
The red color was found on his property, road, and staircase, according to News 7:
The Israeli Federation of Detroit was also targeted in Bloomfield Township around the same day. The FBI confirms that they were on Monday in West Bloomfield and Bloomfield Township as local authorities conducted an investigation. …
At the] University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor school ] Monday, some Israeli student teams held a prayer ceremony, honoring the captives and remembering the thousands of civilians killed in Hamas ‘ brutal attack on Israel.
Pro-Palestinian student organizations in the local area took to the streets to protest the thousands of fatalities caused by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and presently Lebanon. One Arab protester who was marching was arrested, and campus police maintained tight security close to the Diag.
The protesters then allegedly surrounded the police vehicle, which the police claim caused a fight between soldiers who used pepper spray. That man detained was immediately released, and an investigation is underway.
Jordan Acker, a University of Michigan regent, described the vandalism as “disgusting” and” legal” in an interview with News 7.
” To whoever is doing this out there, you are not helping people. All you are doing is essentially making Jews feel unsafe”, he said.
Acker’s law business was vandalized with similar anti-Israel painting in June, The Fix reported at the time. He is Hebrew.
” This is not the same as delivering a text or attending a plank gathering,” he said. This is done to torment elected representatives, to torment the chairman, to torment the Hebrew community”, Acker said this week. ” It’s disgusting”.
In honor of the Israelis who were killed or held prisoner during the Hamas attack, pro-Israel individuals held activities on schools across the nation on Monday.
However, some held rallies in opposition to Israel and assistance of a “free Palestine”, The Fix reported.
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IMAGE: WXYZ News 7
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