Student body president, vice president Alifa Chowdhury and Elias Atkinson are accused of inciting violence against colleagues who opposed Gaza aid measure, labeling critics as ‘Zionists,’ amid push for Israel divestment

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Michigan University Student Officials Face Punishment for Anti-Israel Actions

November 14, 2024

Student body president, vice president accused of inciting violence against colleagues who opposed Gaza aid measure, labeling critics as ‘Zionists,’ amid push for Israel divestment.

Good News! @UMich's student government IMPEACHES anti-Israel President Alifa Chowdhury & Vice President Elias Atkinson for:

– inciting violence

– cyber theft

– dereliction of duty

These student leaders had been blocking crucial funding for student programs—like transportation,… pic.twitter.com/DR7BQIV4xQ

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) November 13, 2024

The University of Michigan’s student body president entered office last semester on a campaign to shut down all “business as usual” — including funding student groups — until the US school agreed to divest from Israel.

Now, that effort — one of the most sustained and assertive anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protests on a college campus — may be coming to an end, as the student government voted this week to impeach its president and vice president over actions related to their hardline “Shut It Down” platform.

Articles of impeachment against Alifa Anam Chowdhury, the president, and vice president Elias Atkinson passed during the assembly’s Tuesday night meeting, by a vote of 30-7 with one abstention. The two were accused of inciting violence against other student representatives who opposed a Gaza aid measure; labeling their critics as “Zionists” on the student government’s official social media account; and, in the case of Chowdhury, “failing to fulfill the duties of her office.”

“We know that the current executive administration is sacrificing Assembly members’ safety without a second thought,” a group of student government members who backed the impeachment wrote in an October column in the student newspaper, The Michigan Daily.

Chowdhury had sought to block the disbursement of more than $1.3 million in student activity funds controlled by the student government unless Michigan’s Board of Regents agreed to divest its endowment from Israel. The campaign followed the groundswell of student protests amid Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas — triggered by the Palestinian terror group’s October 7, 2023, devastating massacres in Israel — which has ravaged the Gaza Strip. Michigan, which has large Jewish and Arab student populations, has been a site of particularly intense US campus activism since the Hamas attack on Israel, as well as a site of some reported assaults on Jewish students.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/university-of-michigan-student-leaders-impeached-over-anti-israel-harassment/

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