DETROIT FREE PRESS
Michigan professor let politics dictate student’s education
by Mitch Albom
September 23, 2018

The request was simple. Happens all the time. A University of Michigan student who planned to study a semester abroad asked one of her professors for a recommendation letter. He was willing to do it. And then he changed his mind. Not because she wasn’t a good student. Not because of what she wanted to study. But because of where she wanted to study: Israel.  “As you may know, many university departments have pledged an academic boycott against Israel in support of Palestinians living in Palestine,” wrote John Cheney-Lippold…“for reasons of these politics, I must rescind my offer to write your letter.” READ MORE