Deadline Detroit | The Guardian: University of Michigan Using Private, Undercover Investigators to Track Pro-Palestinian Campus Groups

The impact of the Israeli-Gaza war and pro-Palestinian movement have been felt here in Michigan in different ways.

Tom Perkins reports in The Guardian, a British newspaper with U.S. correspondents around the country:

The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned.

The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said. The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shar