ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan’s club fair quickly descended into chaos Wednesday afternoon when police shut down an anti-Israel protest after a day of antics from student activists.
The protesters, there to demand that the school divest from all companies that support Israel, identified themselves as members of the TAHRIR Coalition, whose name is an acronym for “Transparency, Accountability, Humanity, Reparations, Investment, and Resistance.”
The school’s club fair was disrupted almost immediately by a sit-in of a few dozen anti-Israel demonstrators chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — a slogan that implies the state of Israel must be eliminated.
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A group of pro-Israel counter-protesters also quickly gathered, holding American and Israeli flags.
Yitz Pierce, the program director at the Jewish Resource Center on campus, stood with the counter-protestors, bringing them water bottles in the oppressive summer heat.