Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators clash Sunday at UCLA, one day after protests erupted again at USC, where 93 people were arrested last week.
Demonstrators supporting and opposing Israel over the war in Gaza clashed in a large and noisy but mostly peaceful assembly at
counterprotest was organized by the nonprofit Israeli-American Council, which on Thursday used social media to denounce pro-Palestinian demonstrations across U.S. campuses. “It is utterly unacceptable that any university campus should become a platform for pro-terror and anti-American activities,” the statement read in part, calling the protests “overtly antisemitic.
graduate who now works for the university as a researcher. Shah said the encampment started Thursday with 200 people and has since grown, with no arrests or other physical pushback from the university. “ , told demonstrators from the pro-Israeli stage set up on the campus lawn Sunday. “We are on the right side of history.” A young woman sat shaded by an Israeli flag, blood visible on her scalp, awaiting medical attention after she said she was shoved to the ground by another demonstrator while attempting to retrieve her fallen flag. Private security guards, meanwhile, attempted to restrict access to the pro-Israel rally.
, as well as others at demonstrations across the country, and had hired multiple security companies to patrol the Los Angeles event. A GoFundMe campaign that Carr said was not affiliated with IAC purported to support the
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