A Jewish student at the University of California, Los Angeles, shared footage on Monday of being denied access to his on-campus class by pro-Palestinian activists occupying the college.
Instagram user Eli Tsives shared footage of him showing his student ID to the activists, who repeated “We are not engaging” while blocking his attempts to walk to his class.
The activists are recorded lining up in front of Tsives, preventing his bypass.
“They didn’t let me get to class using the main entrance! Instead, they forced me to walk around. Shame on these people!” the student wrote.
A PRO-PALESTINIAN protester uses a bullhorn during a demonstration on the UC Berkeley campus on Monday. (credit: JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES)
Violent clashes on UCLA campus
On Sunday, two demonstrators broke through the barriers separating pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations, NBC News reported. The incident quickly escalated into clashes between the two groups.
Members of both factions shoved one another and shouted slogans and insults, and in some cases traded punches. Pushing and shoving persisted for some time among pockets of demonstrators, but campus police armed with batons eventually separated the sparring groups.
Only a few days prior, a Native American woman was attacked by the pro-Palestinian demonstrators while holding a sign that read: “Hamas supporters are not welcome on native land.”
Since then, hundreds of protesters from California and Texas to Atlanta and Boston have been arrested as they emulated the encampments used by Columbia students to call attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Administrators, including those of Columbia, have said the protests, as unauthorized, break school rules, disrupt learning and have fostered harassment and antisemitism.
Protesters are demanding a ceasefire in the war with Hamas and the divestment of university assets in companies involved with the Israeli military, and an end to US military assistance to Israel.
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