Violent Pro-Israel Counter-Protester At UCLA CAUGHT ON CAMERA Beating Student

[Music] a brand new CNN investigation into the bloody attack of student protesters by a pro-israel group earlier this month at the University of California Los Angeles has now identified several Outsiders one participant was identified by his own mother who had boasted about her son's participation and a Facebook post CNN says it reached out to the UCLA police via email office line text messages and cell phones but did not receive any clear response they also reached out to the LAPD who referred back to the UCLA Police Department CNN also ided multiple other counter-protesters who participated in the attack on the anti-war students some of whom were not even U UCLA Affiliated a senior at a high school in Beverly Hills 18-year-old Edon was caught on camera striking a pro Palestine protester with the poll before joining a mob pummeling a man CNN's investigation team found Eden's mother and confronted her at their home now she didn't want to be on camera for the interview uh but she did Place him at the UCLA protest and said he was defending himself she also told CNN uh that she and her husband are proud of their son's pro-israel support even sharing that he will be going to Israel to join the IDF in other protest related news the president of California State University put the president of at somoma State campus on leave Wednesday Mike Lee had agreed to move toward divesting from Israel and involve the pro Palestinian group there in the University's decisionmaking process meanwhile Israeli scholar ilon Pape was detained Monday at the Detroit airport and interrogated for two hours in a Facebook post he wrote about being questioned over his views on Israel and Gaza the bottom of the post he writes quote the good news is actions like this by the USA or European countries taken under pressure from the pro-israeli Lobby or Israel itself smell of sheer panic and Desperation and reaction to Israel is becoming very soon a pariah state with all the implications of such a status um do we know anything more about why that detaining took place I think the the kinds of questions he was was asked does point to the why right he says he arrived on Monday at a Detroit airport he was taken into custody for 2 hours uh by the FBI he was asked he says am I a supporter do I regard the Israeli actions in Gaza a genocide what is the solution to the conflict asking him I guess to to resolve the conflict himself while in detention at an airport um and he is it should be noted a really highly respected Israeli historian this is dystopian to the extreme and we certainly will follow up as more comes out there but I think the headline here is the research the followup that CNN I think very um appropriately did on what has been the most V violence at any of these college protests other than that um perpetrated by the police which has been by this pro-israel mob that descended upon UCLA uh anti-war protesters earlier this month now CNN has done what so many other organizations have chosen not to do was just to look at hours and hours of footage from that night and try to identify some of the people who participated in that Mom now it identified several of these people and went to follow up in the case of this one 18-year-old named Elon went to his home was able to confront his mother who had been proudly bragging on Facebook post about her son's participation the mother had grabbed a screen grab of her son in a mask with a stick on the local news um attacking uh anti-war protesters and uh proud been you know proudly bried about his participation when she was confronted uh on video and you can watch the video we don't have um full rights uh to it here uh over on CNN or on social media when confronted the mother the mother did not deny it only after the fact that she'd delete her Facebook post and say oh her son was uh defending herself but it is interesting to see the relationship here between this uh violent protester and the fact that he's going to go now apparently and intends to join the IDF um it it it's I think disorienting to say the least to think that someone who would engage in this kind of vigilante violence is now trying to be able to do it in a St State sanctioned Way by joining the IDF yeah I'll say it again anyone engaging in violence on either side of the conflicts on campuses the protest um should be dealt with either academically if they're a student or in a law enforcement context if they clearly VI if they if they initiated violence rather than simply um defending themselves that goes for people who if he hit someone with a bat that's clearly an illegal action that should be prosecuted um so too for the protesters on campuses who got in um Jewish or pro-israel students faces and prevented them from moving about parts of Campus um I hope that they are dealt with as well the problem is there's such different things right even if you think that obstructing the movement of a Jewish or Pro Zionist student across campus is wrong what we're talking about here is felony assault uh multiple Journal student journalists were beaten in bloodied at this attack this young man Eden uh was shown on camera uh and his mother circled him and said yes this is my son and I'm proud picking up a long white pole and beating counter-protesters with it uh also said um the mother said quote Edon went to bully the Palestinian students in the tent at UCLA and played the song that they played uh to the knba terrorist in prison uh boasting about again his participation and he's not the only one um you can watch videos of idon using his poll to attack uh student protesters on on online but in additionally there were a number of other participants including o older men one of whom has been spotted uh a local parent says has been spotted at a lot of anti-lgbtq events um someone who used to identify as the green party now identifies as a trump supporter and who has posted anti-semitic memes on the internet joined with the pro-israel side in um perpetrating uh and participating in the the counter protest he specifically uh wasn't filmed engaging in any violence but it does speak to the weird um Confluence of interest that seems to be emerging in the context of this uh in this battle protests on both the right and the left protests and counter-protests do attract just some crazy people or you know or people who pingpong ideologies from far right to far left to everything in between and so it's not strange to find weirdos who just want to engage in violence um at protest I mean that's a very common so interestingly despite again all of these hours and hours of footage of violence that you can see blood dripping off of the face of students who have been struck by Boards and polls by these pro-israel protesters uh CNN reports that the LAPD the California Highway Patrol has not followed up they just kept referring CNN back to the UCLA Police Department which did not respond to multiple requests for comment and here's some commentary from some again some people on campus that are supposed to and allowed to be there um uh a rabbi a rabbi at ucl's Hal um named hyim Cedar Feller said I actually thought someone would get killed he called 911 around midnight uh as you watch the violence unfold he said they came to beat people up um he later uh issued a letter the following day saying that those French members of the off-campus uh uh of the off-campus Jewish community did not represent the 3,000 Jewish students at UCLA which I think is right and accurate um that that seems obviously to be true uh and I would never want to do the thing that so many people who are antagonistic to the prop Palestine protesters do which is to conflate what outside people outside the gates of State Colombia say and do and what the students actually do but this is the problem Jerry Seinfeld's wife donated not to any of these specific violent protesters that hasn't been proven but to the counter protesters at UCLA that were planning to be here and there had there is actual there are actual people who were beaten up and physically injured bloody 25 people had to go to the hospital overnight because of this attack this is the most violent attack that we've seen on any of these college campuses now only hasn't gone undercovered and I really applaud CNN for doing this investigation now but the police have not actually followed up on this attack at the same time that we see the over response in an instance um like the raid that we saw on um Hamilton Hall at Columbia more Rising right after this [Music]

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Published: Thu May 16 2024