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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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