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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel lashed out at critics and made a series of inaccurate or misleading claims during a Wednesday town hall on hate crimes and extremism in West Bloomfield Township, where she defended her handling of pro-Palestinian protesters and vowed to aggressively pursue new cases tied to the movement.
Nessel’s 16-minute talk marked her most expansive public defense of her decision to prosecute University of Michigan protesters and ultimately to drop the charges after facing months of backlash from civil rights groups, students, and progressives within her own party. But in her remarks, Nessel falsely described a news story, mischaracterized criticism from U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and took unsubstantiated swipes at fellow Democrats.
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“So much of everything that happened in this case involves antisemitism at levels and areas that frankly I have not seen before,” Nessel, the state’s first Jewish attorney general, said.
She singled out The Guardian for what she called “really inaccurate” coverage and falsely claimed that the newspaper suggested a “Jewish cabal” was behind her prosecution of protesters. In reality, the article — written by veteran Michigan journalist Tom Perkins — never...
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