The arrest followed a CNN investigation that documented the hourslong attack and identified key perpetrators from the pro-Israel mob.
This is the hatred they have for Americans. Now imagine what they have directed at Palestinians.
I’d argue it’s the opposite. To most of the people who attacked the encampment, Palestinians are just some faceless brown Arab people half a world away, whereas the protesters are the SJW/Marxist/Anti-Americans who are ruining America.
The former, they are more or less indifferent to; the latter, they really hate.
This makes sense. It’s also a lot easier to drop a bomb on the faceless brown people half a world away. It takes real hate to beat up an unarmed person by yourself.
The police charged Edan On, an 18-year-old high school senior, with felony assault for attacking at least one person with a wooden pole. He was remanded to a Los Angeles jail, where he’s being held on a $30,000 bond, according toThe Guardian. On was first identified for his role in the mob attack, led by so-called counterprotestors, in a CNNinvestigation published May 16.
Thistle Boosinger, a 23-year-old member of the encampment, had her hand smashed. “My bone is broken totally in half below my knuckle… [which is] shattered into a bunch of pieces and jumbled up,” she told CNN. In another incident during the attack, a fourth-year UCLA student suffered two head injuries in a matter of minutes. After being hit in the forehead with a traffic cone, he was hit in the back of the head with a wooden plank, video shows.
On’s mother, who had previously described UCLA student protesters as “human animals,” bragged about his role in the attack on social media, even circling an image of him. “Edan went to bully the Palestinian students in the tents at UCLA and played the song that they played to the Nukhba terrorists in prison!” she wrote in Hebrew, CNN reported. When the outlet sought an interview with On, his mother claimed that he was in Israel and planned to join the Israel Defense Forces.
News of On’s arrest followed other events Thursday related to pro-Palestine activism at UCLA. Block testified before the Republican-led U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, some of whose members grilled him for being inattentive to antisemitism on campus. Taking an opposing position, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) asked why no one had been held to account for the mob attack, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Links in article:
- Police arrest man suspected of assaulting pro-Palestinian demonstrators at UCLA [Dani Anguiano | 24 May 2024 | The Guardian] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/ucla-arrest-man-assault-demonstrators-palestine
- Unmasking counterprotesters who attacked UCLA’s pro-Palestine encampment [Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Allison Gordon, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Em Steck, Daniel Medina, Kyung Lah, and Anna-Maja Rappard | May 16 2024 | CNN] https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/ucla-student-protests-counterprotesters-invs
- [Updates on Gaza] https://www.commondreams.org/tag/gaza
- [Seems to have been taken down] https://x.com/TeresaWatanabe/status/1785580909795942766
- [Updated on Israel] https://www.commondreams.org/tag/israel
- Police Violence on College Campuses is Unacceptable [Nicholas Turner | May 07 2024[ https://www.vera.org/news/police-violence-on-college-campuses-is-unacceptable
- Analysis Finds Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful [Julia Conley | May 10 2024 | Common Dreams] https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-peaceful-protests
- More than 800 faculty and staff at UCLA call for chancellor’s resignation [Sam Levin | 10 May 2024 | The Guardian] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/09/ucla-faculty-chancellors-resignation-campus-protests
- UCLA faculty reject censure and no confidence resolutions against chancellor after attack on pro-Palestinian encampment [Dalia Faheid, Paradise Afshar | May 18 2024 | CNN] https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/18/us/ucla-faculty-rejects-censure-gene-block/index.html
- Four takeaways from UCLA Chancellor Gene Block’s testimony on campus antisemitism, protests [Jenny Jarvie | May 23 2024 | LA Times] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-22/block-hearing-takeaways
- [Updates on Ilhan Omar] https://www.commondreams.org/tag/ilhan-omar
- At U.C.L.A., Protesters Briefly Form Encampment and Occupy Building Before Police Move In [Jonathan Wolfe, Grace Whitaker, and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs | May 23 2024 | NY Times]
Wow. Took em long enough. Maybe would’ve been better to stop the assaults in the first place instead of just standing there, but that’s a bit much to ask for cops to protect anyone.
Kid’s gonna graduate into the work force shortly and get to explain to every boss why he has a felony assault on his record. Fucking idiot
He won’t make it through the background check to have the chance to explain anything. Private sector doesn’t hire people with violent crime convictions. He’ll be working off the books or select governmental positions.
