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( JTA ) — 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 school agreed to divest from Israel .
Now that effort — one of the most sustained and assertive 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; tarring 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.”