Israel/Gaza 2023

Today, how it started, and how it’s going with Flint’s child health experiment, Rx Kids. Also, a year of open conflict between Israel and its neighbors takes its toll in Michigan. Plus, how to get up to speed on Michigan Supreme Court candidates.

Several speakers at Stein's Dearborn rally called on Michiganders to “punish” Harris for supporting Israeli military strikes in Gaza and southern Lebanon.

Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people in the 2023 attack and took another 250 hostage. Nearly 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war began.

Michigan’s Lebanese-American community is reeling as violence spreads in the Middle East. The scale of Israel’s exponential escalation of war with Hezbollah in Lebanon is hard to fathom as yet more civilians have been caught in the middle. Journalist Razi Jafri has spent the past many months following the personal and political change happening in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, and Hamtramck - communities in Michigan that have high populations of Arab Americans.

Members of Michigan's large Lebanese American community showed up at a rally in metro Detroit to show their support of Lebanon as the conflict in the Middle East escalates.

Authorities have filed charges against nine people who are accused of trespassing or resisting police during the May break-up of an encampment at the University of Michigan.

The department's Office of Civil Rights investigated 75 instances of alleged discrimination and harassment based on shared Jewish ancestry and shared Palestinian or Muslim ancestry. The investigation found that the university's responses did not meet its Title VI requirements to remedy the hostile environment.

University of Michigan regent and attorney Jordan Acker called the vandalism “antisemitic. "Free Palestine" was spray-painted in black on the building’s walls.

Wayne State said in-person learning resumed starting Friday at 6 a.m., after the removal of a student encampment protesting Israel's war in Gaza.

The students were demanding that WSU divest from Israel and companies that do business with Israel among other things.