Vandals smash window at U-M Board of Regents member's home, spray-paint 'free Palestine' on vehicle
Someone smashed a window and spray-painted a vehicle at Jordan Ackers home early Dec. 9 (Photos: Jordan Acker on Instagram)
OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. (FOX 2) - University of Michigan Board of Regents member and attorney Jordan Acker was once again the target of pro-Palestinian protesters after someone smashed a window at his home and spray-painted "free Palestine" on a vehicle parked in his driveway.
According to photos posted by Acker on Instagram, his family awoke early Monday to a heavy object smashing a window of his Oakland County home.
"While my eldest daughter ran into our room, frightened by the sound of breaking glass, I ran downstairs, saw the broken window, and then ran outside to find my wife’s car had been graffitied by anti-Semitic vandals," Acker wrote."
(Photo: Jordan Acker on Instagram)
"Free Palestine" and "divest" were painted on the vehicle.
"This is the third time that I — and now my family — have been the target of these Klan-like tactics. We all need to call out this cowardly act attacking my family and my home for what it truly is — terrorism," he went on to write.
Vandals graffitied Acker's law firm, Goodman Acker, with the same messages in June, after showing up at his home in May. Acker said the protester who visited his home wearing a mask early one morning left a list of demands.
Acker said the Jewish Voice for Peace student organization and the TAHRIR Coalition took responsibility for the list of demands. It is unknown who is responsible for the vandalism.
TAHRIR previously released a statement regarding the May home visit, saying in part, "Our non-violent home visits of the publicly elected Regents aimed to deliver our demands for divestment directly to the Regents, to level with the University's continued complicity in the genocide. We are still here 24/7 at the encampment on the Diag."