East Lansing — The first student to face disciplinary action from Michigan State University for protesting the university's investments in Israel and weapons manufacturing amid the two-year-old Israel-Hamas War in Gaza said at a Friday rally he is being unfairly punished by the school.
This is the first time a member of the Hurriya Coalition, a group of MSU students who have called for divestment and for the end of the war in Gaza, have faced university investigators and potential sanctions for their pro-Palestinian campus protests. If he's found to have violated the university's student conduct policies, Eli Folts could face anything from a "written expression of disapproval" to probation to a temporary suspension from the university. In the most extreme cases, which Folts acknowledged