Michigan Student May Press Defamation Claim Against Jewish Group

A former University of Michigan ice hockey player may pursue his claim that a Jewish antisemitism watchdog group defamed him by incorrectly posting on X that he painted swastikas onto the Ann Arbor campus’ Jewish Resource Center, a federal court said.

John Druskinis was caught on camera painting male genitalia and a homophobic slur on the sidewalk leading up to the center and was immediately suspended from the university hockey team. After StopAntisemitism heard about the August 2023 incident, it said on X that the hockey team gave Druskinis the boot “after he was caught on camera spray painting swastikas ...