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Michigan Advance: U of M regent says home was vandalized in an antisemitic attack using 'Klan-like tactics'
Michigan Advance - U of M regent says home was vandalized in an antisemitic attack using ‘Klan-like tactics’
By: Anna Liz Nichols - December 9, 2024 5:33 pm
The sound of shattering glass rang through the house as one of University of Michigan Regent Jordan Acker’s young daughters ran into her parents’ room early Monday morning.
Acker told Michigan Advance that he ran downstairs to find that someone threw Mason jars through the front window of his Oakland County home, shattering the glass. Police believe the jars were filled with urine, Acker added.
And the vandalism didn’t end there as Acker said he ran outside to see the words “Divest” and “Free Palestine” spray painted in red on his wife’s car.
But it was the upside down triangle beside the words that particularly disturbed Acker as the symbol has become synonymous with attacks by Hamas as a symbol to mark Israeli targets and has been used internationally in crimes against Jewish officials like himself.
“Those are symbols used by Hamas as a threat, to show what are legitimate military targets. I’m not a legitimate military target for Hamas. I’m not a legitimate military target for anybody. I’m a University Trustee in a Midwestern state,” Acker said. “This whole idea that I’m somehow responsible, because I’m Jewish, for the behavior of a government that I don’t necessarily support is, quite frankly, absurd. It’s absurd, and it’s antisemitic.”
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By: Anna Liz Nichols - December 9, 2024 5:33 pm
The sound of shattering glass rang through the house as one of University of Michigan Regent Jordan Acker’s young daughters ran into her parents’ room early Monday morning.
Acker told Michigan Advance that he ran downstairs to find that someone threw Mason jars through the front window of his Oakland County home, shattering the glass. Police believe the jars were filled with urine, Acker added.
And the vandalism didn’t end there as Acker said he ran outside to see the words “Divest” and “Free Palestine” spray painted in red on his wife’s car.
But it was the upside down triangle beside the words that particularly disturbed Acker as the symbol has become synonymous with attacks by Hamas as a symbol to mark Israeli targets and has been used internationally in crimes against Jewish officials like himself.
“Those are symbols used by Hamas as a threat, to show what are legitimate military targets. I’m not a legitimate military target for Hamas. I’m not a legitimate military target for anybody. I’m a University Trustee in a Midwestern state,” Acker said. “This whole idea that I’m somehow responsible, because I’m Jewish, for the behavior of a government that I don’t necessarily support is, quite frankly, absurd. It’s absurd, and it’s antisemitic.”
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