Violence breaks out at UCLA after officials declare pro-Palestinian encampment 'unlawful'
Violence breaks out at UCLA after officials declare pro-Palestinian encampment 'unlawful'
UCLA has declared the pro-Palestinian encampment unlawful, saying students who fail to leave it may face discipline.
STATEMENT FROM BESIEGED UCLA PALESTINE SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT: https://x.com/PplsCityCouncil/status/1785620846700351510
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This is really disappointing. The violence by the counter-protestors is:
- morally wrong
- terrible for publicity
- pointless, since the police have been breaking up these protests anyway
Who did this and why?
Well the police didn't step in to stop the violence against the protestors, and the news outlets are all reporting this as "both sides" - so it sounds like the attackers got what they wanted.
The news outlets I saw reporting on this were mostly calling out that violence was started by agitators rather than counter-protestors
The news outlets I saw reporting on this were mostly calling out that violence was started by agitators rather than counter-protestors
There's also "news outlets" that say Russia and China are utopias...
So maybe it would be best to show the sources that you think have proof that Israel supporters aren't attacking college students for protesting Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
[One way of reading the comment you replied to is that] the point is that the media is both-sides-ing this instead of truthfully reporting that the violence was directed against the protestors. This allows the protests to be portrayed as "radical" and feeds into the false "pro-terrorism" and "extremist" narrative being portrayed against Gazan and Palestinian sympathizers.