A #CNN review of footage, #SocialMedia posts, and interviews found that some of the most dramatic attacks caught on camera that night were committed by people outside #UCLA – not the #university students and faculty who were eventually arrested.
Why far-right groups are disrupting US campus protests: ‘When there’s so much attention, they show up’ — Gaza counter-protesters at UCLA took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across southern California, researchers say
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“Beyond #UCLA, a number of far-right actors, including a violent white supremacist charged in connection with January 6, the founder of the Proud Boys, and a former member of the streetfighting Neo-Fascist Rise Above Movement have stood alongside pro-Israel demonstrators confronting Gaza solidarity encampments at universities across the country…”
from #NewYorkTimes
[Bias alert - NYT usually favors Israel]
A Chaotic Night at #UCLA Raises Questions About Police Response
"Counterprotesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours without police intervention, and none were arrested. Now, the police response is under investigation."
More power to these #students demonstrating for a #FreePalestine. Seinfeld is a Zionist whose wife literally funded the mob of pro-#Israel thugs who physically assaulted the nonviolent #UCLA encampment. #Duke#protest
“In the dark of night, dozens of men wearing black or blue sweatshirts with full-face white plastic masks, some with Israeli flags draped on their shoulders, converged on the #UCLA encampment that #students had assembled in peaceful solidarity with the beleaguered Palestinians of #Gaza.
Armed … [and] chanting anti-Arab, anti-Black, and anti-Palestinian slogans, the mob set about attacking students and #faculty in the camp.”
Went to #UCBerkeley today to see the student encampment for myself. It was graduation day on campus so a lot of students with caps/gowns with their family.
When I was there as an undergrad, we studied the protest movements that occupied Sproul Hall. Black and white, grainy photos of a distant era. Something to theorize and discuss in class.
It was surreal to see for myself the past very much connected to the present.
I was worried the #UCBerkeley encampment would be the next to fall after Alt-Right groups and then the cops attacked the #UCLA encampment.
Now I’m not so sure this will happen at Cal. It’s a community college that happens to be a world class University. The community hosted “Kid’s Day” at the encampment.
Police officers face off with pro-Palestinian students after destroying part of the encampment barricade at the campus of the University of California. The police cleared UCLA’s student encampment in a late-night operation, and arrested at least 200 pro-Palestine demonstrators
The counter-protestors at #UCLA included a large number of bona fide antisemites. Their only care for Jewish safety is how to exploit it for political gain.
What I witnessed that Tuesday night chilled me to the bone - one of the men named in this article screamed at me and my colleague that white supremacy will rule and white violence will come. We were standing on the sidelines as observers.
Proud to be a part of this movement at #UCLA and walk along my colleagues in defense of our students and the broader principles of academic freedom, critical inquiry, and university autonomy.
Broad divestment from sponsors of state violence is—in my view—essential for the mission of an independent university. In today’s context of #Gaza, it’s even more pressing.
While this report by @guardian could be improved by refraining from describing deputized, state-sanctioned violence as "anarchy" and playing into the statist "anarchy = violent chaos" trope, this is otherwise good reporting which you won't find anywhere in the NYT these days.
The subtitle reads ‘UCLA watched the chaos unfold in the middle of the night and did nothing until it was far too late’. There was no mistake, that is what they intended to happen, aided and abetted by the ‘police’