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PURELY COMMENTARY

letter to the community
Update on U-M Campus
I 

hope that everyone 
had an inspirational 
Passover. On campus, 
Hillel supported more than 
1,000 students 
participating 
in seders — 
some at our 
building and 
ones students 
hosted in their 
apartments. As 
we come out of 
Passover, I wanted to send 
you an update about where 
things are on campus. 
Like on many campuses, 
there’s an encampment 
of about 20 tents on the 
Diag. Blocking one of 
the entrances to the Diag 
is a giant banner that 
reads “LONG LIVE THE 
INTIFADA.”
As you may know, the 

Intifada was a violent 
uprising that included 
terrorists bombing buses, 
pizza parlors and Passover 
seders. Before Passover 
began, I told the university 
that a sign calling for 
violence against Jews has no 
place on campus and must 

be removed immediately. 
The banner remains. And it’s 
more than this sign: Students 
have consistently been 
sharing with us their concern 
about language used on signs 
and in chants that call for 
violence against Jews. This is 
not about free speech. This is 

intimidation and harassment.
I would hope that such 
hate would not be tolerated 
anywhere, especially at the 
University of Michigan — a 
place of learning and free 
inquiry open to all and 
funded by taxpayers from 
across the state. Make no 

Rabbi Davey 
Rosen

The Diag at the 
University of Michigan

