The pro-Palestinian campus brownshirts do not only chant their slogans demanding an end to Israel and its replacement by a 23rd Arab state (“From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free”), nor their desire that Jews, and not just Israelis, be killed (“Globalize the Intifada”). They do not only harass and physically attack Jewish students, interrupt classes taught by Jewish and Israeli professors, and vandalize campus buildings, but they have also taken to attacking the homes of university officials, trying to terrorize them into adopting anti-Israel policies, including divesting of endowment funds from companies linked to Israel.
At the University of Michigan, the homes of regents have been attacked, so that they now are receiving round-the-clock security. More on this attempt to terrorize them into submitting to demands of BDS protestors can be found here: “UMich regents get 24-hour security after threats, homes repeatedly vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti,” College Fix, July 2, 2025:
University of Michigan regents and some top executives are receiving 24-hour-security amid persistent threats and harassment from anti-Israel protesters.
The Detroit News reported this week that the University of Michigan “has assigned 24-hour security to its regents and executive officers in response to harassment, property damage and personal threats that began last fall and have continued through June.”
“UM regents Jordan Acker, Mark Bernstein and Sarah Hubbard said during separate interviews that the university, on the advice of legal counsel, security experts and local law enforcement, assigned them around-the-clock protection in response to serious, ongoing threats to their personal safety,” the newspaper reported.
As recently as June, protesters plucked the heads off hundreds of flowers at the University of Michigan, leaving a sign saying people should not enjoy the peony garden when Palestinians are “dying and starving right now.”
But the targeting of top officials began last May, when activists went to regents’ homes, posting a list of demands to their front doors.
“Nobody should ever encounter a masked and hooded man on the front porch of their home in the early morning making demands that the university divest from Israel and defund the police,” Regent Mark Bernstein reportedly said at the time.
Regent Sarah Hubbard also had about “30 protesters put tents and other objects on her front lawn and used bullhorns to disrupt the neighborhood at around 6 a.m.,” NPR reported at the time.
In June 2024, the front of Jewish Regent Jordan Acker’s law office was spray-painted with the words “free Palestine” and “divest or f*** off.” In October 2024, then-President Santa Ono’s home was spray-painted with the words “intifada,” “coward,” and “divest.”
Regent Acker was again targeted in December when his car was spray-painted with the words “divest” and “free Palestine” and a window in his home was smashed. Acker said both his and his wife’s vehicles were vandalized, and someone threw a jar with a “foul-smelling liquid” through a window of their house….
There is only one way to stop these attempts by pro-Palestinians to terrorize university regents and other officials into adopting anti-Israel policies. These brownshirts need to be caught, and given sentences measured not in months but in years of prison time. That will do much to curb the enthusiasm of these baby-faced terrorists.
BTeboe says
I don’t know what the gun laws are in Michigan, but don’t try that mess in Texas, especially at night. Homeowner has the right to shoot you. Step outside and rack a Keltec-KSG, 12 gauge that holds 15 rounds of .00 buckshot, you’ll probably scare a few off.
BTeboe says
I don’t know what the gun laws are in Michigan, but don’t try that mess in Texas, especially at night. Homeowner has the right to shoot you. Step outside and rack a Keltec-KSG, 12 gauge that holds 15 rounds of .00 buckshot, you’ll probably scare a few off.
Taffy says
I’d shoot those bastards if they showed up on my doorstep and vandalized my property. If they sent me a thoughtful letter at my office, I would read it. But coming to my house is beyond the pale
Westman says
“DIVES”? Another fervently indoctrinated English major?
Nothing justifies damaging property or threatening people who may or may not have the power to meet the demands of an immature mind. These demanding students are sustained adolescents with a bloated sense of entitlement. Perhaps they honed their fit-throwing skills with mom at the checkout counter?
gravenimage says
I think this is short for “divest” (from Israel). But yes–very illiterate.
GE says
Just how is the U of Michigan “invested” in Israel?
Divest from what, exactly? I have yet to hear what any of these investments are. At any university.
It’s just an excuse to make noise and virtue signal.
Total skata imho.
OLD GUY says
U of Michigan should divest of the muslim money in their endowment fund. Followed by removing all muslim students from campus. Islamic terrorist have infiltrated our higher education system. Close the Muslim/islamic student unions and close muslim studies on our campus.
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Patrick says
Antifa, Hamas supporter’s, Hamas member’s, all are equivalent to terrorists. Find/fine em, deport em!
mike says
officials into adopting anti-Israel policies. So giving in is the answer by the writer!
Sorry besides jail kick them out of school then trespassing which will lead to jail
wake up to the truth
Islam rules thru fear & scaring non be leavers
kick them out of the nation
the school open the door now the guest need to be taken down
gravenimage says
Pro-Palestinian Terrorists Attack Homes of University of Michigan Regents
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No one is safe…
Joe1 says
If Palestine is anything, it is a region (not a country). Most of that region is inside Israel. So most “Palestinians” are Israelis. I know that Wikipedia tries to pass Palestinians off as Arabs, but the Arabs and the Jews have the same genetics; so what are they saying? For sure, an Israeli is more Palestinian than someone living in Gaza which is outside the region of Palestine, if Palestine is even a region.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Joe1
Before 1948, when Israel became independent w/ that name, “Palestinians” was the term given to Jews living in that area. Currency in the British mandate had the word “Palestine” in English & Arabic, but “Israel” in Hebrew
skeptiker says
Wie kann man diesen neofaschistischen Umtrieben ein Ende bereiten? Sachbeschädigung bis hin zu Gewalt gegen Personen haben mit freier Meinungsäußerung absolut nichts zu tun. Das sind kriminelle Gewalttäter, denen unverzüglich die ergaunerten Visa entzogen, von den Unis exmatrikuliert und des Landes verwiesen werden müssen. Um den Nährboden für Extremismus die Legalität zu entziehen, muss das gesamte Bildungssystem von DEI, Gender und Woke gesäubert werden.
Ich denke, dass die Gesellschaft längst dazu bereit ist, sich von diesem schädlichen Virus zu befreien, was am Wahlergebnis im letzten Jahr deutlich zum Ausdruck gebracht wurde. Also, es gibt Grund zur Hoffnung.
Den Rest schaffen wir auch noch.
jerry glenn says
Yes. Years of prison time.