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🟡🔵 University of Michigan President Domenico Grasso is “apologizing” after a commencement speech by the Faculty Senate Chair yesterday praised pro-Palestinian student activists for helping open people’s hearts to the “injustice and inhumanity” suffered by Palestinians in the
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Professor Derek R. Peterson, a University of Michigan historian and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a graduation speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.”

Peterson teaches history and African studies at the University of Michigan, where he also became chair of the faculty senate in 2025.