The rhetoric and actions taken by the eight people indicted in the...

According to the indictment, one defendant said: “I’m gonna be the dirtiest f**king doctor ever.”
Another said: “get into that house then burn it down.” 🧵
Feyock said: “We need people following [victim] / get into that house then burn it down.”
Feyock also said that she and Zainab Hakim would “strip search” a U-M student “to see if he is wearing a wire / not taking no chances with him.”
Hakim confronted a U-M student with Feyock, after which Feyock said the victim “knows not to talk.”
In an article she co-wrote, Hakim called for students to refuse to take classes “that support Zionist rhetoric.”
Odeh believes: “The state of Israel is, in fact, a settler colony.”
Jonathan Hongru Zou, 22, an Ann Arbor-based U-M engineering student, is charged with three counts of conspiracy to transmit threats in interstate and foreign commerce.
According to the indictment, Zou and Sepulveda threw two glass jars filled with a blue substance and food compost through a window of the U-M Provost’s home and spray-painted the home with inverted red triangles.
Taken together, the allegations in this case point to something bigger than campus activism: rhetoric escalating into threats, intimidation, and alleged coordinated conduct.
The University of Michigan conspiracy case shows what happens when extremist rhetoric is allowed to harden into action.







