We Bear Witness: Episode 3
We Bear Witness: Episode 3
Peaceful Protests, Anyone?
Today we present the third video in a series of documentaries produced by a member of The Circle in collaboration with JFrg (the Jewish Faculty Resilience Group) at UCLA. The previous videos, posted on our Substack, were titled Masking Identity and What Starts on Campus Spills Into the Streets.
Peaceful Protest
This short video (1m 30 sec) documents violence (from the protesters) at the UCLA encampments.
Protestors at UCLA claim to be peaceful, but they have actually sparked violence across campus. Politicians and student union representatives painted encampment protestors as innocent victims, and much of the broader campus community rallies behind the protestors and calls for academic amnesty. The UAW got involved and encouraged members, faculty and staff to strike, chanting “Long Live the Intifada” and waving “Workers for Palestine” signs. The failure of the UCLA administration to hold protesters accountable for their violence will only encourage more of it. To keep our campus safe we MUST enforce academic policies and the law, and hold those that break either accountable.
The malevolent nature of the vast majority of the recent campus protests has been documented by many observers. Even more revealing are various “Student Intifada” manuals that have been recovered from many encampments and appear online. We covered some of this here, here, and here.
The unions (UAW), now established on our campus, by having openly aligned themselves with organizations that support terror (Intifada), propagate anti-semitism, and call for the destruction of an internationally recognized state, have exposed their true colors. We discussed the connection between organized labor and antisemitism and its history here and here.