Clashes between police and protesters at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) broke out on Thursday (May 23) just hours after the head of the university told a U.S. House panel that the school should have been ready to immediately remove an encampment of pro-Palestinian activists that became the site of a violent clash with counter-protesters last month.
Aerials of the campus showed protesters and police pushing each other.
UCLA was the site of an April 30 overnight mob attack on pro-Palestinian activists that was one of the most violent scenes of the recent protests. The university on Wednesday (May 22) removed the head of its campus police for its handling of the protests, which included inaction during the attack and the arrests by state and local police of 210 people the next night.
On dozens of campuses throughout the country, students set up tents and held rallies to call on President Joe Biden to do more to end the fighting in Gaza and to demand that their universities divest from companies that back Israel's government. Some protesters have adopted antisemitic rhetoric, leading some Jewish students to fear for their safety. - Report from Reuters