By Kim Kozlowski for The Detroit News The University of Michigan has landed in the middle of the controversy surrounding the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with one of its professors thrust into the spotlight after he refused to write a letter of recommendation for a student wanting to study at Tel Aviv University. The decision by John Lippold-Cheney, an American and digital studies associate professor, was prompted by his political views supporting the Palestinians. It has incited communities on both sides of the issue, raising deeper questions about the rights of a scholar versu ..read more