‘This is the third time that I—and now my family—have been the target of these Klan-like tactics,’ Jewish Regent Jordan Acker wrote
Anti-Israel radicals smashed a University of Michigan regent’s window and painted “Divest” and “Free Palestine” on his wife’s car early Monday morning—the third time he’s faced such vandalism this year.
Jordan Acker, a Jewish regent, said two mason jars filled with urine thrown through his window woke up him, his wife, and his three young daughters. The paint on his wife’s car also included a red triangle, a symbol commonly used by Hamas.
“This is the third time that I—and now my family—have been the target of these Klan-like tactics,” Acker wrote on Instagram. “We all need to call out this cowardly act attacking my family and my home for what it truly is—terrorism.”
The University of Michigan also released a statement Monday, calling the incident a “clear act of antisemitic intimidation.”
“The University of Michigan condemns these criminal acts in the strongest possible terms. They are abhorrent and, unfortunately, just the latest in a number of incidents where individuals have been harassed because of their work on behalf of the university,” the statement read. “This is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. We call on our community to come together in solidarity and to firmly reject all forms of bigotry and violence.”
Republican regent Sarah Hubbard called this sort of vandalism “very personal.”
“I had an incident at my home in May where they moved an encampment to my lawn an hour away from Ann Arbor,” she told the Washington Free Beacon. “This must be stopped.”
“I urge law enforcement to pursue suspects in this and other similar cases targeting @umich leadership immediately,” she wrote on X.
In May, an agitator went to Acker’s home in the early morning and hung a note on his door demanding a meeting with the board of regents, divestment from Israeli “apartheid and genocide,” and the campus police department’s abolishment. That same morning, anti-Israel protesters scattered fake corpses on other regents’ lawns. The Tahrir Coalition, an anti-Israel activist campus group, took credit.
The next month, vandals painted messages on Acker’s law firm doors, including “F— you Acker,” “Divest Now,” and “disgustingly anti-Semitic.”
Acker has been outspoken about his unwillingness to cave to divestment demands.
“Divestment is not something any one of us is considering,” Acker said in a Politico interview in May. “For me, I’m a diehard, dedicated two-state solution guy. I want to see a Palestinian state alongside a safe and secure Israel. And I can’t see a situation where divesting from Israel gets us closer to that solution. It’s not really a negotiable one for me.”
Anti-Israel protests and encampments have roiled the University of Michigan since Hamas’s attacks. In October, anti-Israel agitators spat on student government officials and threatened their lives for voting against sending money to a Hamas-associated college in the West Bank.
In June, the Department of Education found that the University of Michigan violated Title VI of the Higher Education Act. The federal department investigated 75 complaints, many involving Jewish students, and determined that few were adequately handled.
This article was originally published at freebeacon.com
