(Detroit News) The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights organization, joined a Wayne State University student organization in a complaint Tuesday against the school’s president, saying he wrongly censored the group’s statement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The WSU Student Senate recently approved a resolution on the armed clash last month in which the Palestinian group Hamas fired rockets into Israel and the country’s armed forces launched airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, killing more than 250 people, most of them Palestinians. A cease-fire was reached after 11 days of fighting.
Wayne State University president M. Roy Wilson blocked the dissemination of the statement through the university’s email listserv, which reaches the school’s faculty and students.
