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“We can’t allow what’s happened in Gaza to happen,” Kamala Harris’s Vice Presidential running mate Tim Walz told WCMU radio in Michigan in an interview on Thursday.
“Getting a ceasefire with the return of the hostages and then moving towards a sustainable two-state solution is the only way forward.”
The relevance of Michigan
This comes after the University of Michigan agreed at the end of August to change its enforcement policies after the US Department of Education determined that it had violated the civil rights of its Jewish students by not doing a better job disciplining protesters.
However, Michigan’s Central Student Government, which distributes a $1.3 million annual budget funded by student fees, is vowing to withhold funding from all student groups unless the university agrees to divest from and boycott Israel.
Andrew Lapin/JTA contributed to this article.