Conflicts erupted during rallies for Palestine at the University of California.
TV clips displayed demonstrators from both sides clashing with each other, using sticks and tearing down metal barricades. Some were captured hurling fireworks or chucking objects at one another in the shadows.
UCLA Chancellor Gene D. Block had cautioned earlier that protesters had established a protest site at the campus the previous week, with "both members of the UCLA community and those with no connection to our campus." Although many protesters and counter-demonstrators behaved peacefully, "the tactics employed by others were blatantly appalling and embarrassing," Block stated in a letter published on the university's website on Tuesday.
"We have witnessed acts of violence," Block detailed. "These occurrences have left many on our campus, especially Jewish students, in a state of dread and terror."
Recently, pro-Palestinian demonstrations erupted at various prestigious US universities. At renowned Columbia University in New York, police cleared a university building seized by protesters on a Wednesday night.
As per their own accounts, their protest targeted the rising death toll in the war between Israel and the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza. Columbia University President Minouche Shafik expressed that Jewish students had found the environment at the university during these weeks intolerable and therefore departed.
In a letter to the New York police, Shafik stated that the takeover of the building was spearheaded by people unrelated to the university.
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Source: www.stern.de
