Opposing Demonstrations : Palestinian Murders of Jews

"We were not pre-committed to any specific outcome or even criminal culpability, and we never treated the fact that criminal charges would be a forgone conclusion."

"[Investigators are working to determine whether the altercation was] accompanied by specific statements or words that demonstrate an antipathy, a hatred, toward a specific group. We don't have that at this point."

"In filing these charges we relied on new physical and forensic evidence as well as findings regarding the injuries to the left side of Paul Kessler's face."

"We were able to take video as well as digital footage, put it together and establish a clear sequence of events leading up to the confrontation."

"These new pieces of evidence, as well as the technology that we utilized, has permitted our office to file these criminal charges."

Ventura county District Attorney Erik Nasarenko

Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Paul Kessler, who suffered head injuries during clashes between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators this month in Thousand Oaks.     (Jon Oswaks / JLTV)

Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, 50, has now been charged with two offences in the death of 69-year-old Paul Kessler after a review of over 600 pieces of evidence and the interview of over 60 witnesses to an event that horrified onlookers. The charges are those of involuntary manslaughter and battery, although California authorities have not ruled out the commission of a hate crime in the untimely death of a pro-Israel demonstrator that followed a confrontation with Alnaji, a college professor.

 

The two, on clearly opposite sides of a now very familiar and extremely heated public perception of a hugely incendiary Hamas surprise invasion of southern Israel where terrorists targeted several towns and villages in a terrifying assault with weaponry whose impact was designed to kill as many people within a short period of time as possible. Throughout the course of a black day of human depravity, an estimated 1,200 people -- children, teens, the elderly and infirm, men and women were slaughtered.

 

Countless girls and women were gang-raped, people waiting at bus stops  were mowed down, cars driving into kibbutzim saw their drivers and passengers summarily executed. A music festival where four thousand young men and women had gathered for a weekend of partying was invaded by a terrorist horde that shot at will and chased down festival goers trying to flee the deadly chaos. Hundreds of people from the music festival were killed; 360 in total. 

 

Before the day was over, some 240 Israelis and foreign agricultural workers, along with Israeli soldiers were forcibly taken to Gaza as hostages, to the  delight of cheering Palestinian civilians as the infants, women and men and the elderly were paraded triumphantly through the streets. Before the international news even caught up with the events as they unfolded, leading the government of Israel to decide to deploy the IDF to Gaza after a prolonged rescue of people who survived the deadly assault, protest marches organized by a group calling themselves Students for Justice in Palestine were taking place.

 

The marches initially praised the 'uprising' of Palestinians against the 'occupying' Israelis, although Gaza has been occupied by Hamas, not Israel. Israel has been defending its population against violent attacks by the real 'occupiers' of Gaza for years on end. Banners reading 'from the river to the sea' and the handing out of sweets gradually turned to loud protests against Israel's 'disproportionate' response to the carnage imposed on southern Israel in later protests.

 

Teeming thousands denied, even when evidence was presented, that Hamas was a terrorist group, that it had raped, tortured, mutilated and murdered anyone. And with the evidence that could not be denied, those same committed Jew-haters blamed Israel for any atrocities that occurred, not the perpetrators. Jewish groups in the United States, Canada and elsewhere raised counter-demonstrations. And the death of this man occurred at one of those intersections between Hamas support and Israel's right to seek justice.

 

New details have been released in the death of a Jewish man who authorities said died after a confrontation with pro-Palestinian demonstrators at a rally in Thousand Oaks.

A physical altercation took place between these two men -- an Israel defender and a 'pro-Palestinian' -- on November 5. Early reports were that the older Jewish man had been bludgeoned with a bullhorn, which was what had caused him to fall to the ground and ultimately perish. The 69-year-old Paul Kessler was among pro-Israel demonstrators confronting a pro-Palestinian demonstration at a suburb of Los Angeles, Thousand Oaks.

According to investigations, authorities confirmed Mr. Kessler sustained non-fatal injuries to the left side of his face, although nothing was said about what had caused the injuries or the subsequent fall. Alnaji informed deputies on their arrival on scene that he had called 911; he was there when they arrived. A professor of computer science at Moorpark College, Alnaji espoused pro-Palestinian views on Facebook and other social media accounts, most of which are no longer to be seen.

As for Mr. Kessler, he had worked in medical sales for decades; he taught sales and marketing at colleges. He was also a pilot. And he is now dead, a result of high emotions, one group passionately defending themselves as a human right to security and a peaceful existence. The other defaulting to 

Medieval brutality and sadistic savagery in an expression of their hatred, as self-imposed victims.

 

Loay Alnaji can be seen carrying the megaphone allegedly used to strike Paul Kessler, knocking the Jewish man to the ground. Free Republic

 

"[A demonstrator from the Free Palestine group came behind me with a megaphone and screamed close to my ear.] I turned around, and I said, ‘Get that f— thing out of my ear. Back up’."

"We endured hate rhetoric [one pro-Palestinian supporter rubbed Kessler’s blood into a sign of hate against Israel.] If this isn’t the definition of a hate crime, I don’t know what is."

Jonathan Oswaks, 69, protesting alongside Kessler

Los Angeles Times