Pro-Palestinian protesters launched a new encampment on the UCLA campus, weeks after their initial camp was violently attacked and then dismantled by police, students confirmed to The Times on Thursday.
Pro-Palestinian protesters launched a new encampment on the
's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine wrote on social media. 'We need support in numbers asap.' Chancellor Gene Block, who has led the university amid months of tense protests over the Israel-Hamas war, testified before a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism. Block told the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce that 'with the benefit of hindsight, we should have been prepared to immediately remove the encampment if and when the safety of our community was put at risk.
and elsewhere.' Some Jewish students on campus said they felt intimidated by the initial encampment as protesters scrawled graffiti such as 'Death 2 Zionism' on campus buildings and blocked access. Kopel said students involved in the protests have 'remained steadfast' in their support for Palestine and their goal to end the bloodshed in Gaza. 'So many of these students faced such intense violence just a few weeks ago,' Kopel said.
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