After violent night at UCLA, classes cancelled, UC president launches investigation into response
www.latimes.com
Hours of violence that unfolded overnight at a pro-Palestinian encampment set up on UCLA's campus prompted administrators to cancel classes on Wednesday and has triggered questions about authorities' response.
  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    This is really disappointing. The violence by the counter-protestors is:

    • morally wrong
    • terrible for publicity
    • pointless, since the police have been breaking up these protests anyway

    Who did this and why?

    • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      The news outlets I saw reporting on this were mostly calling out that violence was started by agitators rather than counter-protestors

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        The news outlets I saw reporting on this were mostly calling out that violence was started by agitators rather than counter-protestors

        There’s also “news outlets” that say Russia and China are utopias…

        So maybe it would be best to show the sources that you think have proof that Israel supporters aren’t attacking college students for protesting Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

        • firadin@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          [One way of reading the comment you replied to is that] the point is that the media is both-sides-ing this instead of truthfully reporting that the violence was directed against the protestors. This allows the protests to be portrayed as “radical” and feeds into the false “pro-terrorism” and “extremist” narrative being portrayed against Gazan and Palestinian sympathizers.

    • firadin@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Well the police didn’t step in to stop the violence against the protestors, and the news outlets are all reporting this as “both sides” - so it sounds like the attackers got what they wanted.