Pro-Palestinian Terrorists Attack Homes of University of Michigan Regents

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The pro-Palestinian campus brownshirts do not only chant their slogans demanding an end to Israel and its replacement by a 23rd Arab state (“From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free”), nor their desire that Jews, and not just Israelis, be killed (“Globalize the Intifada”). They do not only harass and physically attack Jewish students, interrupt classes taught by Jewish and Israeli professors, and vandalize campus buildings, but they have also taken to attacking the homes of university officials, trying to terrorize them into adopting anti-Israel policies, including divesting of endowment funds from companies linked to Israel.

At the University of Michigan, the homes of regents have been attacked, so that they now are receiving round-the-clock security. More on this attempt to terrorize them into submitting to demands of BDS protestors can be found here: “UMich regents get 24-hour security after threats, homes repeatedly vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti,” College Fix, July 2, 2025:

University of Michigan regents and some top executives are receiving 24-hour-security amid persistent threats and harassment from anti-Israel protesters.

The Detroit News reported this week that the University of Michigan “has assigned 24-hour security to its regents and executive officers in response to harassment, property damage and personal threats that began last fall and have continued through June.”

“UM regents Jordan Acker, Mark Bernstein and Sarah Hubbard said during separate interviews that the university, on the advice of legal counsel, security experts and local law enforcement, assigned them around-the-clock protection in response to serious, ongoing threats to their personal safety,” the newspaper reported.

As recently as June, protesters plucked the heads off hundreds of flowers at the University of Michigan, leaving a sign saying people should not enjoy the peony garden when Palestinians are “dying and starving right now.”

But the targeting of top officials began last May, when activists went to regents’ homes, posting a list of demands to their front doors.

“Nobody should ever encounter a masked and hooded man on the front porch of their home in the early morning making demands that the university divest from Israel and defund the police,” Regent Mark Bernstein reportedly said at the time.

Regent Sarah Hubbard also had about “30 protesters put tents and other objects on her front lawn and used bullhorns to disrupt the neighborhood at around 6 a.m.,” NPR reported at the time.

In June 2024, the front of Jewish Regent Jordan Acker’s law office was spray-painted with the words “free Palestine” and “divest or f*** off.” In October 2024, then-President Santa Ono’s home was spray-painted with the words “intifada,” “coward,” and “divest.”

Regent Acker was again targeted in December when his car was spray-painted with the words “divest” and “free Palestine” and a window in his home was smashed. Acker said both his and his wife’s vehicles were vandalized, and someone threw a jar with a “foul-smelling liquid” through a window of their house….

There is only one way to stop these attempts by pro-Palestinians to terrorize university regents and other officials into adopting anti-Israel policies. These brownshirts need to be caught, and given sentences measured not in months but in years of prison time. That will do much to curb the enthusiasm of these baby-faced terrorists.