by Ibrahim Moiz for MuslimMatters
Could 2, 2024
UCLA College students and School Horrified At Extent of Violence
The marketing campaign towards pro-Palestine protests on American campuses took one other unsavoury shift this week at Los Angeles when an encampment on the College of California Los Angeles (UCLA) was stormed by armed Zionist thugs, who set about attacking the protesters with sensible impunity and with no response from both police or campus safety. The assault continued for hours within the evening, leaving each college students and college horrified on the extent of the violence and its indulgence by safety who are supposed to defend the college group.
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UCLA pro-Palestine encampment
Overwhelmingly nonviolent protests have unfold throughout the USA in latest weeks, as college students protest for universities to divest from corporations that revenue off the internationally unlawful, however liberally indulged, occupation of the West Financial institution and Palestine. Though the USA has lengthy claimed brokerage between Israelis and Palestinians, in precise reality it has indulged Israel’s occupation underneath the pretext of safety, and far of the American political and enterprise class has engaged with and invested in an internationally unlawful occupation.
Cowardly Leaders Fail to Shield College students
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Professional-Israeli thugs assault protesters
In a typical diversion, Zionist organisations and their sympathisers within the corridors of energy, as excessive as Joseph Biden himself, have tried to color the opposition to Israel’s genocide at Gaza as an episode of antisemitism, however the a whole lot of Jewish protesters and the mounting disapproval for Israeli insurance policies amongst even a historically sympathetic Jewish-American populace. Thus the White Home’s solely response to occasions at New York’s Columbia College, whose British-Arab president Minouche Shafik caved into political strain and ordered the police on her personal college students a fortnight in the past and the place college students occupied a historic corridor in solidarity with Palestine, was to sentence antisemitism and paint the Arabic time period intifada, generally utilized in varied uprising-related contexts around the globe, as an antisemitic slur.
On the different, western finish of the USA, management has been equally craven. In an interview with Ian Masters, professor and director of the UCLA Institute on Inequality and Democracy Ananya Roy has described the college’s failure in defending its college students, whose “calm, contained, peaceable encampment” was repeatedly menaced by Zionist agitators. This failure, Roy says, led on to the “unchecked violence”, dumbly watched by passive safety forces as college students and college who tried to guard them have been assaulted. The administration, in line with Roy, “resolutely refused to acknowledge the protection and well-being of our very personal college students who’re in that encampment and actually have the fitting to protest at college.”
Campus Administration Negligence
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Professional-Zionist thugs attacked protesters
Not solely did the college administration fail to have the attackers arrested, however their statements and messaging “downplayed the necessity for security and well-being for the scholars within the encampment”. It was on this context that some 200 Zionist thugs launched an armed evening assault on the encampment, savagely laying concerning the college students and chanting genocidal slogans corresponding to the decision for a second “Nakba”, referring to the unique expulsion of Palestinians from their land on the basis of the Israeli ethnostate within the late Nineteen Forties.
Although UCLA chancellor Gene Block has since responded to the assault with a condemnation, Roy describes the administration as having been negligent within the days main as much as it. Complaints concerning the behaviour of a Zionist counterprotest over the weekend – a counterprotest funded partly by the spouse of comic Jerry Seinfeld – have been ignored.
Belying widespread makes an attempt to painting the protests as antisemitic due to their criticism of Israel, Roy famous that lots of the college students and, certainly, school who opposed Israel’s coverage have been Jews, who have been nonetheless endangered by violence within the title of the “Jewish state”. She described how one Jewish scholar on whom she checked after the violence replied, “I’m okay – however the college was actually making an attempt to kill us final evening.”
Many feedback on social media expressed shock on the violence and its obvious impunity.
Others grimly famous the parallel with Zionist militia violence in Palestine, the place thuggish Israeli settlers repeatedly brutalize Palestinians with the safety, and frequent participation, by the Israeli state.
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