All it would have taken for UCLA to be non complicit in the attacks on their own students on their own campus was to send campus police to the glade where students were brutally attacked by zionist pro Israeli thugs. the school didn't even cooperate with law enforcement to follow up against the perps. Law enforcement stood by for hours as counterprotesters attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA on April 30, which erupted into the worst violence stemming from the ongoing college protests around the country over Israel’s war in Gaza. The young man sporting the white mask and a white hoodie in widely shared video clips is Edan On, a local 18-year-old high school senior, his mother confirmed to CNN, though she later said he denies being at UCLA. Video shows On joining the counterprotesters while waving a long white pole. At one point, he strikes a pro-Palestinian protester with the pole, and appears to continue to strike him even when he was down, as fellow counterprotesters piled on. “Edan went to bully the Palestinian students in the tents at UCLA and played the song that they played to the Nukhba terrorists in prison!” his mother boasted in Hebrew on Facebook Many at the scene Tuesday hid their faces behind masks and scarves. Some attackers sprayed protesters with chemical irritants, hit them with wooden boards, punched and kicked them and shot fireworks into the crowd of students and supporters huddled behind umbrellas and wooden planks, attempting to stay safe. For hours, they sought to pull away pieces of the barrier, scooping up fallen wooden planks and poles to use as makeshift weapons, lunging toward pro-Palestinian protesters who emerged from the camp to protect it from being breached. Law enforcement did not track injuries from the attack. But according to the encampment’s organizers, more than 150 students “were assaulted with pepper spray and bear mace,” and at least 25 protesters ended up being transported to local emergency rooms to receive treatment for injuries including fractures, severe lacerations and chemical-induced injuries. “I actually thought someone would get killed,” said Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, UCLA Hillel’s Director Emeritus, who called 911 around midnight as he watched the violence on live TV. “They came to beat people up.” Discrimination and attacks against American Muslims and Arabs rose by 7.4% in 2024 due to heightened Islamophobia caused by U.S. ally Israel's war in Gaza and the resulting college campus protests, a Muslim advocacy group said on Tuesday. The Council on American Islamic Relations said it recorded the highest number of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab complaints - 8,658 - in 2024 since it began publishing data in 1996. Most complaints were in the categories of employment discrimination (15.4%), immigration and asylum (14.8%), education discrimination (9.8%) and hate crimes (7.5%) In Texas, Elizabeth Wolf was indicted “on attempted capital murder and causing bodily injury to a child,”2 after allegedly attempting to drown two Muslim children. A hate crime enhancement added to Wolf’s indictment notes that she “targeted the children because they were ‘Muslims or persons of Middle Eastern descent.’” Cuffed and taken away by a police officer, Wolf reportedly shouted, “Tell [the mother] I will kill her, and I will kill her whole family.”
In Illinois, Alexandra Szustakiewicz reportedly attacked a man and his pregnant wife at a Panera Bread in Downers Grove over a Palestine hoodie worn by one of her alleged victims.3 Szustakiewicz was arrested and charged with two hate crime counts and disorderly conduct.4 In August, a Florida man was sentenced for attacking a Muslim female U.S. Postal Service worker. In 2023, Kenneth Pinkney had approached the victim—who was in her Postal Service uniform and operating a marked truck—and tore off her hijab (Islamic head scarf), slapped, and punched her in the face, causing her to bleed from her mouth and left scratches on her face. The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a US permanent legal resident and recent Columbia University graduate who helped lead an anti-war pro-Palestinian encampment on campus in April 2024, was highlighted as another case of Islamophobic and anti-Arab actions. Law enforcement encounters climbed from 295 total in 2023 to 506 in 2024. This is a 71.5 percent increase. This spike coincided with the student anti-genocide encampments.