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In reply to the discussion: Pro-Israel protesters at UCLA threw a bag of live mice into the pro-Gaza encampment [View all]AloeVera
(3,844 posts)He knows what he is doing.
As I wrote on another post:
This student, Eli Tsives, a StandWithUs Leventhal Internship alum, is a well-known figure on the student encampment. Other students have claimed that he regularly antagonizes, insults and taunts the protesters for hours. There are three more videos of him I could find, one of him attempting to gain access at another location and pushing at the protesters, telling them "you can kiss your jobs goodbye, this is going to go viral on social media". Another one of him taunting a professor, wearing an IDF T-shirt and using the Israeli flag like a matador while mocking and laughing at her - in the middle of the encampment where no one is harassing or stopping him. The third one is a rather rousing speech at a counter-protest directly across from the encampment. He is being hailed as a hero and a star on social media.
In the video in the O/P, he later stated that he got to his class but he was made to take a different entrance!
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As I've said, there are provocateurs on both sides, trying to inflame and incite and use the protest for their own agendas.
This is not a demonstration of anti-semitism. This is a bad faith performance pushing a narrative.
Meanwhile, over in Gaza, the people are suffering through hell on earth and children and students are actually torn to bits and all their universities are demolished. They have no way of ever getting back there, no alternate entrances they can take, their education forever lost. While here in the West we are instead focusing on imagined "threats" to Jewish students on campus, while centering our outrage on their feelings and on the purported "anti-semitism" of the students and their cause.
The students see through our hyprocrisy to the real truth of the matter. This is why they are attacked and demonized.
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