Pro-Israel supporters attack pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of California in Los Angeles. Eyewitness videos from UCLA show people wielding sticks to hammer on wooden boards being used as makeshift barricades to protect the pro-Palestinian protesters before police were called to the campus.
Full story: https://www.rappler.com/world/us-canada/violence-flares-ucla-police-end-protests-new-york-columbia-may-1-2024/
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00:00 Pro-Israel supporters attack pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of California in Los Angeles.
00:06 Eyewitness videos from UCLA show people wielding sticks to hammer on wooden boards being used as makeshift barricades
00:13 to protect the pro-Palestinian protesters before police were called to the campus.
00:17 Just hours before, New York City police arrested about 300 pro-Palestinian demonstrators
00:23 who occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, charging them with trespassing and criminal mischief.
00:28 The clashes at UCLA and in New York are part of the biggest outpouring of U.S. student activism since the anti-racism rallies in March of 2020.
00:37 Students rallied or set up tent encampments at dozens of schools across the U.S., expressing opposition to Israel's war in Gaza
00:44 and demanding schools divest from companies that support Israel's government.
00:47 (upbeat music)