{"id":261549,"date":"2024-05-06T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=261549"},"modified":"2024-05-02T09:11:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T08:11:49","slug":"masked-israel-supporters-attack-uclas-palestine-solidarity-encampment-with-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/05\/masked-israel-supporters-attack-uclas-palestine-solidarity-encampment-with-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked Israel Supporters Attack UCLA\u2019s Palestine Solidarity Encampment with Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Unicorn Riot<\/p><\/div>\n

1 May 2024 <\/em>– Over more than five hours on Tue 30 Apr night, pro-Israel Zionist agitators violently beat, pepper sprayed and threw fireworks at hundreds of college students and protesters in a \u201cunilateral, surprise attack<\/a>\u201c<\/strong> as they held UCLA\u2019s Palestine solidarity encampment while security<\/a> and police stood by idly. Though police didn\u2019t intervene until the fifth hour of the attack, the encampment stayed intact with the students repelling the continuous onslaught as they defiantly chanted<\/a> \u201cwe\u2019re not leaving\u201d <\/strong>and \u201cFree Palestine.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The students kept the encampment together despite the violence with a policy to not engage<\/a> and acting in a defensive posture. Students maintained some of the barricades made of wood and metal that protected the encampment while being punched, pummeled, kicked, hit with projectiles and sprayed with chemicals.<\/p>\n

A communique from a group of autonomous UCLA students<\/a> that was sent out to media is posted at the end of the article and notes that the students feel like the violence they faced was \u201caided and abetted by [the] administration.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Here is the first 24 minutes of the attack at UCLA. <\/p>\n

Make no mistake: the attacks were solely initiated by the pro-Israel side. pic.twitter.com\/924IuaEAaf<\/a><\/p>\n

— Film The Police LA (@FilmThePoliceLA) May 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n