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Mixed60% confidence8 sourcesOct 20, 2026In the fall of 2024, Jordan Acker's office in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood was spray painted.Said by 2GThe sources confirm that Acker's law office in Southfield was spray-painted with anti-Israel graffiti, but they date that attack to June 3, 2024, not fall 2024. The 'Orthodox Jewish neighborhood' detail is not addressed; sources describe Southfield only as a heavily Jewish suburb. The claim is partly right (a 2024 office vandalism occurred) but wrong on timing, and the fall-2024 incidents in the sources involve his home and car in December.Mixed60% confidence9 sourcesOct 20, 2026Jordan Acker's ex-wife's car was spray painted with an upside down triangle and the words 'Divest or die'.Said by 2GThe 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". The claim also calls her his ex-wife, but the 2024 reports describe her as his wife at the time, which is not a contradiction.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.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesOct 20, 2026Historically, between two-thirds and 70% of Jewish voters align with the Democratic Party.Said by ARecent vote-share estimates support a figure around two-thirds to 70% of Jewish voters backing Democrats (AP cites about two-thirds for Harris in 2024 and 7 in 10 for Biden in 2020; Reuters and Ruderman cite about 70%). However, the sources give competing measures and ranges: party identification runs roughly 54-64%, Wald's recent estimate is three-fifths to two-thirds, and historical presidential support ranged from 44% to 68% in 1972-1988, so the claimed range is only partly supported depending on the measure.