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about Eyer, a non-Jewish can-
didate, flagging the post as
anti-Semitic.
“The thing that strikes me
about this election cycle … is
not so much whether Mozghan
is anti-Semitic or anti-Israel
— that’
s pretty obvious. But,
rather, it’
s how other candidates
are jumping on this
weird anti-Semitism
bandwagon that’
s
really made me
uncomfortable,
” said
Lesko, who lives in
the city’
s first ward and belongs
to Beth Israel.
“That sounds anti-Semitic to
me, that Jen Eyer’
s supporters
are saying — and Jen Eyer her-
self — that big money equals
Jews,
” she said. “They’
re saying
it’
s an anti-Semitic slur against a
non-Jewish woman.
”
Though Elyakin asked “
Ann
Arbor Politics” moderator
Stephen Lange Ranzini to
remove Savabieasfahani’
s post
last week, it remains public.
However, in comments to the
post made within a few hours
of its publication, Ranzini asked
for Savabieasfahani to make
extensive edits. In a second
call for edits, he asked her to
remove Elyakin’
s name and
mentions of the IDF from the
post. According to Ranzini,
Savabieasfahani has made all
the corrections he’
s asked her to
make.
The group’
s moderators
also changed the group rules
to no longer allow caricatures
“that support or stir up trou-
ble” to be posted, and asked
Savabieasfahani to remove the
images in her post or delete
it altogether. She has since
removed the images.
Savabieasfahani is still a
member of the Facebook group,
but according to Ranzini, she
has been placed on prior review
for her posts until the end of
the primary season. He said the
group has a two-strikes policy
before removal. “She has been
publicly moderated, which is a
kind of naming and shaming,
”
he wrote in an email.
Elyakin would still like to see
Savabieasfahani removed from
the page. He said
she has been
banned from at
least one other
local politics
Facebook group.
More than that, though, he’
d
like to see someone else win the
primary.
“It will just not give her an
official elected voice, which
is what she is striving to do,
because her singular passion is
the destruction of the state of
Israel,
” Elyakin said.
For her part, Savabieasfahani
said she’
s running for council
this year because she feels the
current city government has not
provided environmental securi-
ty for residents. This is her first
time on the ballot. Though she
has been an active speaker at
council meetings for years, she
said this will also be her first
time voting in a city council
election.
“I will do everything to
be heard when it comes to
Palestinian human rights, and I
will do everything to be heard
when it comes to the environ-
mental health of the public,
right here in the town that I’
ve
lived in for almost 20 years.
And I am proud of doing both
of those things,
” she said.
Elyakin doesn’
t want to think
about what it would mean to
have Savabieasfahani on coun-
cil, though.
“For me to even think about
her in any kind of official, elect-
ed official capacity is abhorrent,
”
he said.
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