So I knew that cars make you lose your perception of the humanity of others, but I guess I was a little surprised at just how many people were fully ready to ram their car directly into my body as I was walking a picket line. "I will do a vehicular assault to avoid having to walk 10 extra minutes" is peak LA culture.

#UAW4811 #UCLA

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

Photograph: Étienne Laurent/AFP/Getty Images

@photography
#UCLA
#students
#protest
#police

Open letter from #UCLA Jewish Faculty and Staff with regards to the clearing of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on campus.

#Palestine #Israel #antisemitism #StudentSpring #Encampments

https://sites.google.com/view/ucla-jewish-faculty-staff/

"Report: Anti-Israel campus protesters were prepped for months by outside activists"

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-anti-israel-campus-protesters-were-prepped-for-months-by-outside-activists/

"WSJ finds students consulted with and received training from groups that have supported Hamas and attacks on Israel; NYT finds pro-Israel protesters started clash at UCLA"

#Hamas #campus #protest #Israel #Jews #antisemitism #WSJ #NYT #UCLA #Palestine #Gaza #militants

#NewYorkTimes
Fifteen minutes later, while those in the encampment chanted “Free, free Palestine,” counterprotesters organized a rush toward the barricades. During the rush, a counterprotester pulls away a metal barricade from a woman, yelling “You stand no chance, old lady.”
Throughout the intermittent violence, officers were captured on video standing about 300 feet away from the area for roughly an hour, without stepping in.

#UCLA #zionists #israel #uspol #gaza

https://archive.ph/fZjFn#selection-2473.0-2481.154

Content warning: UCLA NYU COLUMBIA YALE HARVARD Reveal/hide

#UCLA #NYU #COLUMBIA #YALE #HARVARD

So what is peaceful protest, you senile zionist fuck? Sitting at home reading a fucking book? The protests were peaceful until your pigs decided to riot. How about you stop funding and arming a fucking genocide and then talk about what’s peaceful or not, you hypocritical, genocidal jackass.

#ucla #studentProtests #Biden #UnitedStates #USA #zionism #Israel #Palestine #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide (2/2)

New joint statement by members of #UCLA’s history department, compiled from testimony of faculty present at encampment during various periods and in response to last night’s police violence against students. We make 6 explicit calls of the university administration. Read at link below.

https://history.ucla.edu/2024/05/02/statement-of-members-of-the-department-of-history-in-response-to-clearing-the-encampment-2-may-2024/

#Palestine #StudentSpring #Encampments #Universities #Gaza #Education #PoliceViolence #AcademicFreedom

Statement of Members of the Department of History in Response to Clearing the Encampment, 2 May 2024 - UCLA History Department

Members of the Department of History at UCLA are horrified that the university administration has continued to disregard our students’ safety and their right to…

^{Edward Trujillo (UCLA History Department)}

"#UCLA now finds itself in a far more vulnerable place. The attack last night was pure anarchy in which violent thugs were given free rein, seemingly with the tacit support of law enforcement. It placed scores of anti-war demonstrators in the encampment in direct and serious danger.

Moreover, the actions last night do absolutely nothing to assure the security and well-being of Jewish students, staff or faculty"

https://forward.com/opinion/608479/ucla-violence-campus-protests/

I'm a UCLA professor. Our leaders could have prevented violence – The Forward

Last night's violence at UCLA was something the university's administrators could and should have anticipated.

^{The Forward}