Quote:Pro-Hamas protests are raging at UCLA as of this writing, with a large group of roving demonstrators engaged in what the Los Angeles Times ludicrously labels “largely peaceful” activities, like trying to break into buildings, assaulting journalists, bloodying a security guard, and vandalizing school property. They put red dye in a fountain, splashed more dye on the steps, carted around fake corpses and dismembered body parts while reading the names of people who have supposedly died in Gaza.

They neglected to read out any of the names of the victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack:

Protesters formed a roving pro-Palestinian camp on UCLA’s campus Monday afternoon to recite the names of thousands of people who have died in Gaza.

Police ordered the demonstrators to disperse at least twice, and the crowd quickly dismantled tents and barricades and moved to different locations on campus.

As protesters marched, one among them was reading aloud names of Palestinians killed.

“They will not die in vain,” protesters chanted after each name. “They will be redeemed.”

Some protesters set roses down next to a coffin painted with the Palestinian flag that sat alongside fake bloodied corpses. A helicopter hovered overhead.

According to a witness, this security guard was the recipient of the "largely peaceful" action:

Also, largely peaceful seems to include blocking certain people from walking on campus:

It’s all very peaceful if you’re on their team and are not with the police, but otherwise, not so much:

They also reportedly poured hot soup on the neck of the above journalist.

Where I come from, vandalism is a crime, but to many progressives, these folks are just exercising their constitutional rights:

The police presence thus far has been far stronger than it was during the initial protests, and they’ve been taking the paper-mache props from some of the radicals and detaining others. Initially, this one had the look of going on late into the night, but tensions have calmed for the moment as police have issued a dispersal order. RedState will keep you updated as events warrant.

Quote:On Tuesday, a federal judge ordered the University of California to craft a plan so that Jewish students would have equal access to the campus after anti-Israel activists blocked parts of the school’s Los Angeles campus and set up checkpoints.

According to a lawsuit brought by three Jewish students, the pro-Hamas activists limited their access to parts of the campus and told them they would not be able to pass unless they “disavowed Israel’s right to exist.”

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the students by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty to “ensure that Jewish students will never again face such antisemitic bigotry on campus,” also described the “identification system” used by the radical activists to give out “wristbands to those who had passed their anti-Israel ideological test.”

According to the suit, UCLA’s administration ordered police to stand down and step aside and even assigned security officers to keep those who would not agree to disavow Israel’s right to exist away from the area.

Kamran Shamsa, an associate clinical professor at the university’s medical school, said that while the Gaza camp, referred to in the lawsuit as the “Jew Exclusion Zone,” was at UCLA in April “a large, masked man approached me and aggressively pushed me to the ground,” within “plain sight of at least a dozen UCLA security guards” who “did nothing to intervene,” according to Just the News.

The judge ruled that UCLA must work with Becket and co-counsel from the firm Clement & Murphy to create a plan to protect the Jewish students by August 5.

The Gaza camp was finally dismantled by police after weeks on campus and several nights of violence. It was revealed by The Bruin that UCLA had to pay in excess of $12 million to repair all the damage. According to The Center Square, the University of California spent $29 million on security and cleanup services across its ten campuses, the majority of which was spent on security.