FEBRUARY 29 • 2024 | 19
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n the evening of Feb 15, Knollwood Country Club was set 
to host an FIDF Young Adult event. Because of security 
concerns, the event was moved to Temple Israel.
Nevertheless, that evening a group of protestors arrived and 
blocked both the entrance and exit to Knollwood property. West 
Bloomfield Police quickly dealt with the protests and the crowd 
soon left once they realized it was an empty venue. Unfortunately, 
a trespasser later returned to Knollwood’s property and committed 
“minor but incendiary vandalism” to Knollwood’s property and 
West Bloomfield property adjacent to Knollwood’s property. 
In a statement to members the following morning, Knollwood 
President Mark Colton stated: “While minor to repair, it has cer-
tainly caused a great deal of emotion in our membership and the 
community in general.
”
This occurrence of vandalism is believed to be the extent of the 
harm to the property. Each scrawling contained an obscenity direct-
ed at the FIDF (Friends of the Israel Defense Forces). The incident 
is under investigation by the West Bloomfield Police Department. 

The country club was set to host an FIDF 
event before it moved to a new venue.

Knollwood 
Vandalized

DANNY SCHWARTZ SENIOR STAFF REPORTER

Knollwood Country Club was vandalized
by protestors of the Hamas-Israeli war.

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