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Related: About this forum"People Could Have Died": Police Raid UCLA Gaza Protest After Pro-Israel Mob Attacked Encampment
We get an update from the University of California, Los Angeles, where police in riot gear began dismantling a pro-Palestinian encampment early Thursday, using flashbang grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas, and arresting dozens of students. The raid came just over a day after pro-Israel counterprotesters armed with sticks, metal rods and fireworks attacked students at the encampment. The Real News Network reporter Mel Buer was on the scene during the attack. She describes seeing counterprotesters provoke students, yelling slurs and bludgeoning them with parts of the encampments barricade, and says the attack lasted several hours without police or security intervention. UCLA is complicit in violence inflicted upon protesters, wrote the editorial board of UCLAs campus newspaper, the Daily Bruin, the next day. Four of the papers student journalists were targeted and assaulted by counterprotesters while covering the protests. We speak with Shaanth Kodialam Nanguneri, one of the student journalists, who says one of their colleagues was hospitalized over the assault, while campus security officers were nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, UCLAs chapter of Faculty for Justice in Palestine has called on faculty to refuse university labor Thursday in protest of the administrations failure to protect students from what it termed Zionist mobs. Professor Gaye Theresa Johnson, a member of UCLA Faculty for Justice in Palestine, denounces the administrations response to nonviolent protest and says she sees the events as part of a major sea change in the politicization of American youth. This is a movement. It cannot be unseen. It cannot be put back in the box.
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"People Could Have Died": Police Raid UCLA Gaza Protest After Pro-Israel Mob Attacked Encampment (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
May 2
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2naSalit
(87,701 posts)1. Sounds a little like...
Conditions in the West Bank.
Uncle Joe
(58,892 posts)2. Precisely, and if anyone believes
"What happens in Gaza stays in Gaza" is seriously deluding themselves as to the threat posed by extension to even our rights, freedom democracy.
The 1st Amendment is being trashed as a result of this.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)3. How dare them accuse the pro Israel supporters of being a mob.