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A diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) administrator was reportedly fired from the University of Michigan (UM) after making antisemitic statements, The New York Times reported Thursday.

The administrator, Rachel Dawson, said that the university was “controlled by wealthy Jews,” and that Jewish students were “wealthy and privileged” and not in need of the university’s diversity services, according to The New York Times. The university has experienced countless antisemitic incidences since the start of the war in Gaza on Oct.7, 2023.

The employee was also accused of saying “Jewish people have no genetic DNA that would connect them to the land of Israel,” according to a complaint from the Anti-Defamation League of Michigan obtained by the NYT. Dawson’s lawyer told the NYT she plans on suing the university.

Several students were charged for incidents relating to anti-Israel protests at UM in April after setting up an illegal encampment on campus and clashing with police, according to the Michigan attorney general’s office. On Monday, a Jewish regent’s home was vandalized, with pro-Palestinian messages spray painted on the regent’s cars and a mason jar filled with a “foul-smelling liquid” thrown through a window of the house, according