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(The Guardian) Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters clash at University of California, Los Angeles
-Skirmishes broke out at the University of California, Los Angeles on Sunday as pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters rallied on campus where a Palestinian solidarity encampment was set up earlier this week.
On Sunday, thousands of demonstrators including students and outside members from the wider Los Angeles community showed up on campus, with many waving Palestinian and Israeli flags as others chanted into microphones. According to UCLA’s student-led newspaper, Daily Bruin, the mass crowd consisted of four protests. Various organizations showed up in solidarity with the protests. According to Reuters, members from the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice planned to support the students’ right to protest. The Palestinian Youth Movement also rallied in solidarity with the encampments, the Daily Bruin reported.
Earlier this week, UCLA students joined thousands of protesters across the country by setting up a Palestinian solidarity encampment on campus, calling for the university to divest from Israel and for a ceasefire in Gaza. Since Hamas’s killing of more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping of over 240 hostages last October, Israel has launched a deadly war on Gaza, killing more than 34,000 Palestinians while forcibly displacing over 2 million survivors amid a famine due to Israeli aid restrictions.
A security guard tries to intervene in the confrontation with his bike at UCLA in Westwood, California on Sunday. Photograph: Gene Blevins/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock
Israel has also destroyed every university in Gaza, in addition to killing at least 5,479 students, 261 teachers and 95 university professors, according to the UN, which has condemned Israel’s actions as “scholasticide”.
In a statement posted on Instagram, UCLA’s Students for Justice in Palestine and the UC Divest Coalition at UCLA posted a list of demands to the university. Those include withdrawing all UC-wide and UCLA Foundation funds from companies and institutions that are “complicit in the Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people,” as well as ending the “targeted repression and policing of pro-Palestinian advocacy on campus and sever[ing] all ties with the [Los Angeles police department]”.
www.theguardian.com
-Skirmishes broke out at the University of California, Los Angeles on Sunday as pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters rallied on campus where a Palestinian solidarity encampment was set up earlier this week.
On Sunday, thousands of demonstrators including students and outside members from the wider Los Angeles community showed up on campus, with many waving Palestinian and Israeli flags as others chanted into microphones. According to UCLA’s student-led newspaper, Daily Bruin, the mass crowd consisted of four protests. Various organizations showed up in solidarity with the protests. According to Reuters, members from the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice planned to support the students’ right to protest. The Palestinian Youth Movement also rallied in solidarity with the encampments, the Daily Bruin reported.
Earlier this week, UCLA students joined thousands of protesters across the country by setting up a Palestinian solidarity encampment on campus, calling for the university to divest from Israel and for a ceasefire in Gaza. Since Hamas’s killing of more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping of over 240 hostages last October, Israel has launched a deadly war on Gaza, killing more than 34,000 Palestinians while forcibly displacing over 2 million survivors amid a famine due to Israeli aid restrictions.
A security guard tries to intervene in the confrontation with his bike at UCLA in Westwood, California on Sunday. Photograph: Gene Blevins/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock
Israel has also destroyed every university in Gaza, in addition to killing at least 5,479 students, 261 teachers and 95 university professors, according to the UN, which has condemned Israel’s actions as “scholasticide”.
In a statement posted on Instagram, UCLA’s Students for Justice in Palestine and the UC Divest Coalition at UCLA posted a list of demands to the university. Those include withdrawing all UC-wide and UCLA Foundation funds from companies and institutions that are “complicit in the Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people,” as well as ending the “targeted repression and policing of pro-Palestinian advocacy on campus and sever[ing] all ties with the [Los Angeles police department]”.
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters clash at University of California, Los Angeles
Thousands of demonstrators including students and non-students showed up Sunday on campus for four different protests
www.theguardian.com
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