Jordan Acker's ex-wife's car was spray painted with an upside down triangle and the words 'Divest or die'.
Posted by The Global Story, Checked
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The Global StoryOct 20, 2026
The sources support the core of the claim: Jordan Acker's wife's car was spray-painted with an upside-down red triangle and the word "divest" in December 2024. They contradict the exact wording, since the reports list the messages as "Divest" and "Free Palestine" and never mention "or die".
Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.
A guest makes this claim. Listeners heard it, so it counts against the post, and on the guest's own record.
What was said
… So, in the fall of 2024, my office, which is in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, was spray painted in the middle of the night. About two months later, a jar full of a pungent liquid, for lack of a better term, was thrown through the front window of my home. My ex-wife's car was painted with an upside down triangle and said something like, I think, Divest or die was paint spray painted on her vehicle. At that point, and it was a pretty terrifying incident, obviously, my children were asleep upstairs. Prior to October 7, I could never have foreseen a place where Jews were no longer welcome in the United States. …
The Global Story · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. The reports that quote the vandalism list the words as "Divest" and "Free Palestine"; none mentions the phrase "Divest or die", so the claim's exact wording departs from the sources.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Supports. Multiple 2024 reports say the car of Acker's wife was spray-painted with an upside-down triangle and the word "divest" in red paint.[1][3][4][5][7][8]
Context. The claimant's own post hedges the wording ("something like, I think"), and his later podcast describes the triangle as a Hamas target symbol, but neither is independent evidence of the exact phrase.[9]
Context. The sources date the vandalism to December 2024, when the car belonged to Acker's wife; the claim's description of her as an ex-wife reflects a later status and does not contradict the incident.[1][7][8]
Sources
9 sources: 1 primary, 7 not rated, 1 tier 1
- 1University of Michigan regent says home targeted in ...mcac.maryland.gov · primary source · cited for: contradicts, supports, context
- 2‘Terrorism’: Vandals target Jewish U. Michigan regent again | The College Fixthecollegefix.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3U of M regent says home was vandalized in an antisemitic ...michiganadvance.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 4Vandals smash window at U-M Board of Regents member's home ...fox2detroit.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 5UMich Regent reports home vandalizationmichigandaily.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 6Michigan University Regents Reel After Vicious Anti-Israel Attacksjfeed.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 7University of Michigan condemns antisemitic attack on regent's homethehill.com · tier 1 · cited for: supports, context
- 8Jewish U of Michigan official targeted with pro-Palestinian vandalism at homejewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 9University of Michigan Regent Jordan Acker: When Antisemitism ...ajc.org · not rated · cited for: context
Where this claim was made
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Related claims
- In the fall of 2024, Jordan Acker's office in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood was spray painted.Mixed
- Approximately two months after the fall of 2024, a jar of liquid was thrown through the front window of Jordan Acker's home.True
- Jordan Acker has served as a regent at the University of Michigan.True
- The 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero was vandalized with spray paint.True
- Abdul El-Sayed said October 7 was Israel's fault.False