'Horrific' violence at UCLA after counter-protesters attack pro-Palestinian camp
'Horrific' violence at UCLA after counter-protesters attack pro-Palestinian camp
Fireworks and tear gas flew through the air after masked pro-Israeli assailants tore down barricades.
Violence erupted at the University of California, Los Angeles after pro-Israeli counter-demonstrators attacked a pro-Palestinian campus encampment. Bubbling tensions on the campus boiled over following the alleged breach of a "buffer zone" between the rival groups.
Jewish Federation Los Angeles meanwhile blamed the university's chancellor for allowing "an environment to be created over many months that has made students feel unsafe".
The group demanded that the encampment be cleared and that UCLA meet leaders of the Jewish community.
Fucking hell, this is such a callous response. In any other situation, the group representing the side that just had masked vigilantes attack peaceful demonstrators would make amends. "These people don't represent our movement. We disavow them and what they stand for." And so on.
I see they're taking a page from Israel's book: refuse to apologize, defend unprovoked violence, and blame the victims on top of everything else.
All these police attacks on Pro-Palestine rallies are just bringing more attention that would have faded away.
And the unprovoked violent attacks will cause more people to start to question the Israel war and the US support of it. People will start to wonder why supporting normal Palestine people is an idea to attack peaceful rallies and to take away the right to protest.
You wont hear mainstream media question why the police retracted a short moment before pro-Israeli thugs stormed in the encampment and attack the peaceful protesters, they came back in to only arrest the pro-palestine protesters. the establishment has payed to end the protests and establishment media are only parading the side of the story the have been paid for to.
You can have violence from the police, or you can have counter-protest violence. The police have proven time and again they will stand back and do nothing while the people protesting for any liberal idea (sad that the left seems to be the only one interested in things like peace, equality, and justice) get beaten by the right.
I think this is a good example of how vigilantes often work to support the state's goals when it can't legally/easily complete their goals.
For every fascistic government still bound by laws, there will be fascists willing to ignore them to support it. See this. See the KKK carrying out lynchings on people who are barely escaping the grasp of the state. See the settlers illegally settling on Palestinian land to carry out the state's goals of ethnic cleansing.
People supporting genocide are violent.
What a surprise.
Jesus Christ. All over students protesting that their university is openly supporting a regime committing genocide and crimes against humanity.
Obviously it's the zionists who attack others
Angry and lashing out. This time the Israeli genocide was called out and the world was made more aware. And the usual cover given challenged thanks to these protests. The dehumanization of Palestinian people by supporters of Israel's genocide is frightening.
Police Prevent Crime! I mean Police Protect us from Crime! I mean Police Solve Crimes! I mean
How come the only videos we can see are ones from news stations with talking heads?
Shouldn't there be a bunch of raw camera footage taken with people's phones?
I don't need some shitty news station to curate or manufacture information for me.
Someone couldve run up behind that one and unmasked him
after Israel supporters attack pro-Palestinean camp FTFY
Some Jews' opinions about illegal settlements sure have changed in the last few days
Its weird yo see they York University was so far ahead of its time with this stuff.
Shows you what this is really about
The good people need to arm themselves.
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ITT: hyperbole
Black people never wear masks when they are up to no good