Why The Timid Kid Gloves? Shut Them All Down!

"What I can tell you, at the moment, is that the building is clear of employees and protesters and the building is secure."

"We don't have an exact appraisal on it [the state of the building following protest takeover] but there was damage to the exterior, the interior, equipment, materials, structure -- it was significant damage."

California State University, Los Angeles spokesman, Erik Frost Hollins 

A police officer walks by graffiti on the walls of a building at California State University on June 13. AP

 

In Los Angeles protesters barricaded the Student Services Building at California State University, Los Angeles on Wednesday, and before the incident was over, managed to trash the multi-story building. At the time the university president and other employees were in the building.  Two hours later, at 6:00 p.m. the 58 employees had mostly departed but for a group of administrators remaining to midnight, 'managing' the situation. By 1:15 a.m. Thursday most protesters had left the building to return to their campus encampment.

Police, who arrived on t he scene, ordered stragglers to exit the building, and no arrests were made, no injuries reported. Two employee "interactions" with the marauders have been left with law enforcement to deal with. Graffiti is shown on images from the building exterior, furniture blocking entry to rooms, golf carts overturned, picnic tables and umbrellas used to barricade the plaza at the front of the building.

For the past 40 days, the CSULA Gaza Solidarity Encampment has been set up close to the campus gym.

“So long as the encampment remained non-violent, I was committed that the university would continue to talk. [But in the wake of the destruction and theft that occurred Wednesday, a line was crossed and] those in the encampment must leave.”

“I am saddened, and I am angry. Campus community: Know that we will recover from this, but also know that I am committed to doing everything we can to ensure this will never be allowed to repeat. I cannot and would not protect anyone who is directly identified as having participated in last night’s illegal activities from being held accountable.”

CSULA President Berenecea Johnson Eanes

The organizers of these protests that have cropped up everywhere across North America and Europe billed themselves initially as 'pro-Palestine' before it became glaringly evident they were actually anti-Israel, until they finally morphed into mobs of pro-Hamas activists. When they moved their protests from public roadways and in front of Jewish-owned businesses in boycott mode, to finally set up tent encampments on university grounds the realization that the 'spontaneous' student protests were actually led and organized by outside agitators, paid to form raucous, threatening upheavals was revealed.

In New York, identifying themselves as pro-Palestinian activists, others committed to vilifying Israel and elevating the terrorist Hamas Palestinians, threw red paint at homes belonging to the Brooklyn Museum executives, its Jewish director in particular.  Red paint was tossed at the diplomatic mission buildings for Germany and the Palestinian Authority, leading to a police investigation and outrage from city authorities. 

 

Vandalism outside the home of a Jewish board members of the Brooklyn Museum.

From Brad Lander

 

"This is not peaceful protest or free speech. this is a crime, and it's overt, unacceptable antisemitism", stated the city's mayor Eric Adams, sharing a post showing a brick building with red paint defacing its front, a banner hung over the entrance to the home, describing Anne Pasternak, director of the museum, a "white-supremacist Zionist". "Every single American needs to see this. This is the face of hatred. Jewish Americans made to feel unsafe in their own homes -- just because they are Jewish", said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Flyers were in circulation critical of the Palestinian Authority and its Fatah-aligned president, Mahmoud Abbas. Clearly Fatah's more oblique, limp-by-comparison excoriation of Israel as an 'occupying' force finds no favour with the protesters, prepped to throw their weight behind Hamas which has made no secret of its covenant to destroy Israel and massacre Jews. 

 

Demonstrators hold a rally in support of Palestine outside the Nova Music Festival Exhibition in New York City on June 10, 2024. The exhibition pays tribute to the victims of the October 7 attack by Hamas on an Israeli music festival.   Jonathan Fernandes/Sipa USA

 

Earlier in the week a large demonstration was held at the venue of a New York City exhibition established as a memorial to the Israeli victims of the Hamas October 7 terrorism attack on the Tribe of Nova music festival where well over 300 young Israeli men and women were slaughtered, and dozens taken hostage to the Gaza Strip. The tribute to the Israeli victims of Palestinian psychopathy was described as "Zionist propaganda" by the protest group Within Our Lifetime; the music festival described by them as "a rave next to a concentration camp".

Protesters riding a subway train to the demonstration at the Nova exhibit chanted "Raise your hands if you're a Zionist" at other passengers, closing their declaration  by chorusing "This is your chance to get out!" Social media videos revealed demonstrators spraying a subway train with graffiti,  at the Union Square station. 

 

One can only look on with total bemusement and outrage. WHY is this antisocial, hateful, antisemitic behaviour being tolerated?!!!

Vandalism was reported outside the homes of several Jewish board members of the Brooklyn Museum, a spokesperson said.   From Brad Lander