The student assembly at the University of Michigan has impeached and removed from office two pro-Palestinian student leaders who vowed to block campus group financing unless the university divested from companies they said profited from the war between Israel and Hamas. 

Student government President Alifa Chowdhury and Vice-President Elias Atkinson were removed from office Monday night after a student judicial hearing spanning seven days, according to The New York Times, Tuesday. 

They were found guilty of a single charge of dereliction of duty. They had been accused in an impeachment proceeding in November of allegedly inciting violence against members of the student government, among other charges.

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