Pro-Palestinian protesters wearing masks pitched tents and placed fake bloody corpses outside the home of a University of Michigan board member, raising tension with the school.
Sarah Hubbard, chair of the university's governing board, said the 6 am demonstration at her home in on Wednesday involved 30 people.
바카라They approached my home and taped a letter to my front door and proceeded to erect the tents. A variety of other things were left in the front yard,바카라 Hubbard told The Associated Press. "They started chanting with their bullhorn and pounding on a drum in my otherwise quiet neighbourhood."
She and her husband stayed inside. Okemos is 100 km from the Ann Arbor campus.
The protesters left 30 to 45 minutes later when Meridian Township police arrived, Hubbard said. No arrests were made. Three tents and fake corpses wrapped in sheets were left behind.
Protesters at the Ann Arbor campus have an encampment on the Diag, a prominent public space.
The group is demanding that the university's endowment stop investing in companies with ties to Israel. But the university insists it has no direct investments, only less than USD 15 million placed with funds that might include companies in Israel. That's less than 0.1 per cent of the total endowment.
바카라There's nothing to talk about. That issue is settled," Hubbard said.
In social media posts, a coalition calling for divestment acknowledged the protest and said it would 바카라remain relentless in the struggle for a free Palestine.바카라
The university said the protest at Hubbard's home was not free speech.
바카라The tactics used today represent a significant and dangerous escalation," the university said.
School officials have not disclosed any plans to break up the encampment on campus, which was created in April.
바카라We would prefer that they would leave on their own,바카라 Hubbard said.
