The University of Michigan hosted Vice President Kamala Harris at the Rackham Auditorium last Thursday for a conversation on climate policy and action. Despite the welcome from U-M leadership, members of the campus community were divided on the implications of Harris’s visit, as well as whether or not the University and the White House could have been more conscious of the visit’s logistical impact on the city. Outside of the auditorium and throughout the streets of Ann Arbor, Students Allied for Freedom and Equality — a U-M student organization focused on advocating for Palestinian identities — protested Harris’s visit. Engineering senior Zaynab Elkolaly, co-director of activism for SAFE, said the organization was motivated to host a protest by Israel’s recent decision to ban the public flying of the Palestinian flag and the Biden-Harris administration’s policies on relations with Israel. The administration has continued the United States’s history of providing military support fo...