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Installation Shabbat service with
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9:30am Torah study with
Rabbis Kanter and Zerwekh
10:30am Shabbat service,
followed by kiddush
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Senior Alexa Smith, a graphic arts student in U-M’s Stamps School of Art & Design, created
her own image to counter the anti-Semitic depiction that offended her at a mandatory art
lecture series. She spoke to U-M administrators about the university adopting the International
Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism.
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of Nazis’ is an example of anti-Sem-
itism. We could have avoided this
mess if the university had a policy
of teaching this definition to all pro-
fessors and faculty. In the future, the
university will have a guideline to
draw a clear line between ‘provoca-
tive’ and ‘hate speech.’”
Anti-Defamation League Michigan
Director Carolyn Normandin said
her organization is at the ready to
give students and Hillel the support
they need and provide U-M admin-
istrators and faculty with anti-bias
training.
“We are working on a model pol-
icy that will be applicable to other
universities,” Normandin said. “We
praise the university’s censure of
[Cheney-Lippold]. While a small
number of professors and academic
associations may support BDS, the
movement has been roundly con-
demned.
“Until things [that happen in a lec-
ture] are reported, we do not really
know the extent of anti-Israel bias or
anti-Semitism on campus. But what
we do know is that these refusals [to
write] letters of recommendation are
the first manifestation of how profes-
sors can put their personal political
beliefs into practice. And this is very
concerning to the ADL.”
PARENTS, ALUMNI REACT
Parents and alumni had mixed reac-
tions to the administration’s state-
ments and actions. While some were
satisfied, others — many paying a
high price tag for their children’s out-
of-state tuition — felt the university
did not go far enough.
Regarding U-M President Mark
Schlissel’s statements on the Stamps
lecture given by former
Black Panther Emory
Douglas, Sherry Levine
of Rye Brook, N.Y.,
whose son is a U-M
student, said this is not
a Jewish issue; it is an
Sherry Levine
issue of “allowing and
excusing pure hatred”
to fester. To her, Schlissel’s response
to the Douglas lecture was weak.
“Comparing any leader to Hitler
should never be allowed,” Levine
said. “Those ignorant on the subject
will then take this misleading and
inaccurate propaganda and think
they are standing up for human
rights. Expressing many different
views and fighting for rights of all
peoples is the kind of dialogue and
expression that should happen on
a college campus, but charging [the
Israeli leader] and, therefore, Jews of
genocide is very dangerous. Schlissel
needs to take a stand and not make
excuses. I’m frankly sick of apologiz-
ing for my son’s school.”
Alumna and parent Peri Kadanoff,
also of Rye Brook, N.Y., did not
mince words when she suggested that
if professors still want to hold a per-
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