Law enforcement officers detain a demonstrator, as they clear out a pro-Hamas protest encampment at the University of California, Los âŚ
by Dion J. Pierre
âThe Chabad Rabbi of UCLA was just physically assaulted live on camera,â said Harvard University student Shabbos Kestenbaum. âThe students subsequently began calling him a âZionist pedophile Rabbi,â telling him to âgo back to Poland.â We are in such a dark, dangerous time in our country, with almost no leadership fighting back.â
Others, commenting on the swarming of vice chancellor Beck, suggested that UCLAâs admissions committee potentially selected the students to reward their allegiance to the politics of the far left.
âYouâd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at this UCLA administrator,â said Noah Pollack, a contributor to the Washington Free Beacon. âThese are the people he wanted on campus. These are the people his admissions committee selects for. And now he gets to live with them while they threaten and humiliate him.â
Emily Austin, a pro-Israel activist and sports broadcaster, told The Algemeiner in a statement: âThese students feel comfortable engaging in what increasingly looks like domestic terrorism because the authorities allow it. They do and say the most abhorrent things knowing there will be no consequences. This is a result of weak leadership, especially in California, where leadersâ failures stretch far beyond the campus.â
The riot at UCLA continues an unprecedented year in higher education in which students emerged in the hundreds and thousands to declare solidarity with Hamas, terrorism, and efforts to destroy Israel, the worldâs only Jewish state. Their demonstrations followed Hamasâ atrocities on Oct. 7, when the terrorist organization murdered over 1,200 people, kidnapped more than 250 others, and perpetrated systematic sexual violence during the terrorist groupâs invasion of southern Israel.
At UCLA, anti-Zionist protesters have installed their third encampment, the first of which saw them block off entire sections of campus through which they blocked Jewish students from passing. Violence, destruction of property, and open calls for murdering Jews have defined all three demonstrations, revealing what experts have described to The Algemeiner as the complete radicalization of higher education.












