ANN ARBOR, MI — University of Michigan alumna Eaman Ali said she was fired in April as a student employee and permanently banned from UM employment over her participation in pro-Palestine protests in 2024.

This summer she received word she is also facing disciplinary charges.

“I knew that this was part of a pattern of repression of my and others’ pro-Palestine activism,” Ali said Wednesday, Aug. 27, in front of the university’s Ruthven Administration building.

Ali and seven other organizers, including U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, gathered to speak out against what they called the University of Michigan’s “deepening campaign of anti-Palestinian repression.”

“They need to be reminded that we are not going to be buried by their oppression and suppression and violence towards studen

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