" 'We will not be silent while Gaza burns’ " -- at the University of Michigan

" 'We will not be silent while Gaza burns’: Pro-Palestine activists mark second year of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza"

MICHIGAN DAILY (University of Michigan student newspaper)

Ocrober 8, 2025

At:

https://www.michigandaily.com/news/administration/we-will-not-be-silent-while-gaza-burns-pro-palestine-activists-mark-second-year-of-israels-military-campaign-in-gaza/

"Hamtramck approves proclamation supporting Palestinians", from Detroit Free Press:

 "Hamtramck approves proclamation supporting Palestinians"

Detroit Free Press, March 2, 2023

by Niraj Warikoo

On the web at: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2023/03/02/hamtramck-city-council-approves-proclamation-supporting-palestinians/69956283007/

"Hamtramck city council has approved a proclamation expressing support for Palestinians and opposing military aid to 'all repressive governments'...."

Political cartoon showing Ann Arbor City Council and its Mayor Christopher Taylor in January 2023.

See the political cartoon below, showing Ann Arbor City Council and its Mayor Christopher Taylor in January 2023.

The Ann Arbor City Council's most consistent policy, since 1984, has been to smother every resolution that opposes U.S. funding to Israel. 

Now Itamar Ben-Gvir,  a very public admirer of the mass-murderer Baruch Goldstein, is in charge of the Israeli police. Yes, he officially has his finger on the triggers pointed at the Palestinian people. 

City Council is still sitting on this simple human rights resolution, just 7 words long.  It says: "We are against military aid to Israel".

Virtually the same resolution was recommended to the City Council in 2003 by its own Ann Arbor Human Rights Commission. It fell on their deaf ears, and many thousands of Palestinians died.

University of Michigan students marching through Ann Arbor, Michigan on January 12, 2023, demanding human rights for the Palestinian people.

University of Michigan students marching through Ann Arbor, Michigan on January 12, 2023, demanding human rights for the Palestinian people.

They are also protesting the Vice President's support for Israel as she visited the university campus.

The YouTube video is below - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogiC0pdrv-M

And here are some photos from the march:

Dr. Mozhgan fights for the resolution against military aid to Israel, in the Ann Arbor City Council:

 At the Ann Arbor (Michigan) City Council meeting of December 19, 2022:

Dr. Mozhgan is the only candidate to demand a City Council resolution against military aid to the apartheid state of Israel.This is her campaign speech on CTN:

Dr. Mozhgan Savabieasfahani speaks on Community Television Network of Ann Arbor (CTN), regarding her Ann Arbor City Council candidacy.

She is the only candidate to demand a City Council resolution against military aid to the apartheid state of Israel.

This video of Dr. Mozhgan's speech was released on July 2, 2022:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6NWFedbncQ

Mayor Christopher Taylor is called a "racist dog" for his behavior against Palestinians:

See the video here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROQB3mjQUso

The video shows Mayor Christopher Taylor and City Councilmember Jen Eyer being shamed for their actions regarding Palestinians, during the June 6, 2022 meeting of the Ann Arbor City Council in Michigan.

Mayor Taylor comes under heavy criticism for throwing his weight against Palestinian human rights resolutions, while Councilmember Eyer is criticized for getting campaign contributions from old Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. 

Mayor Taylor's public outrage at Russia's occupation of white Ukrainians is contrasted unfavorably with his anti-Palestinian behavior. 

Then at the end of the video is a gallery of opinion cartoons regarding the Mayor and his City Council.