California Gov. Six days after pro-Palestinian activists used force to elude arrest at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA ), Governor Gavin Newsom ( D) blasted the recent violence at the university on Wednesday.
Governor @GavinNewsom’s assertion regarding the atrocities that occurred at @UCLA.
The right to free speech does not expand to inciting violence, graffiti, or violence on campus. photograph. twitter.com/6XCicntdEp
— California Governor (@CAgovernor ) May 1, 2024
Before, Newsom and University of California chairman Michael Drake had been silent. On Tuesday, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block issued a warning about the camp and just condemned it.
The protesters invaded the main square of UCLA on Thursday, setting up wooden walls. On Friday, campaigners physically assaulted this columnist and blocked journalists from entering the street to video the demonstration.
The protesters began reportedly delegating surveillance authority to UCLA, granting entry only to those with bracelets and denying access to” Nazi” Jews and other people as they began patrolling the perimeter of their encampment.
Everyone who tried to walk to school across the open space was prevented, by pressure, from entering, and there were several tussles. There were also fights with pro-Israel counter-protesters at a protest on Sunday, when UCLA safety was lacking. The activists forced pro- Israel counter-top- protesters, including little children, to stroll through a labyrinth of intense pro- Israeli activists. UCLA claimed it lacked officers, but had troops around the camp.
Suddenly, on Wednesday night, after a day in which pro- Israel vigilantes and pro- Arab activists clashed on school, with police just arriving hours into the melée, Newsom condemned violence, vandalism, and “lawlessness”.
The show recalled the Black Lives Matter riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020, which therefore- candidate Joe Biden declined to denounce until three days in, when Kyle Rittenhouse shot three people, killing two, in personal- defense.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor- at- Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p. m. to 10 p. m. ET ( 4 p. m. to 7 p. m. PT ). He is the author of the recent e- book,” The Zionist Conspiracy ( and how to join it )”, now available on Audible. He is also the author of the e- book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U. S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
