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STATEMENT FROM BESIEGED UCLA PALESTINE SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT: https://x.com/PplsCityCouncil/status/1785620846700351510

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[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is really disappointing. The violence by the counter-protestors is:

  • morally wrong
  • terrible for publicity
  • pointless, since the police have been breaking up these protests anyway

Who did this and why?

[-] firadin@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Well the police didn't step in to stop the violence against the protestors, and the news outlets are all reporting this as "both sides" - so it sounds like the attackers got what they wanted.

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

The news outlets I saw reporting on this were mostly calling out that violence was started by agitators rather than counter-protestors

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

The news outlets I saw reporting on this were mostly calling out that violence was started by agitators rather than counter-protestors

There's also "news outlets" that say Russia and China are utopias...

So maybe it would be best to show the sources that you think have proof that Israel supporters aren't attacking college students for protesting Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

[-] firadin@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

[One way of reading the comment you replied to is that] the point is that the media is both-sides-ing this instead of truthfully reporting that the violence was directed against the protestors. This allows the protests to be portrayed as "radical" and feeds into the false "pro-terrorism" and "extremist" narrative being portrayed against Gazan and Palestinian sympathizers.

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