▲ | kevinventullo 3 days ago | |
I personally visited the protest site at UCLA while this was happening. It was a huge fenced-off encampment on the main lawn in front of the library. The interior of the encampment was mostly tents, while the boundary of the encampment had signs facing outward for passers-by to read. There were no obstructions or barriers to any buildings, though it would take an extra minute or two to walk around the encampment if you were trying to get to a nearby building. Here are some of the signs I saw: “We believe that Palestinian rights must be achieved without harm coming to any other group or people” “My Judaism is not Zionism” “F** Israel” (without the asterisks) “Jews Say No To Genocide” “UC you have blood on your hands” “Filmmakers for a free Palestine” “Fund our jobs and education not war and occupation” “Never again means never again anywhere!” “Free Palestine” with a drawing of a policeman, gun drawn, facing a soldier on fire; clearly evoking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_of_Aaron_Bus... “Israeli against genocide” “UCLA funds war” “Our liberations are tied” “Life in everything yearns for the death of occupation” (had trouble parsing this one) “From Palestine to Mexico border walls have got to go” This one’s cut off but it ends with “…violation of international law not anti-Jewish bigotry” A sequence of maps of Israeli/Palestinian borders in 1947, 1967, present day. The map legend labels are “Palestinian Land” and “Jewish/Israeli Land”. There is also a text-based “timeline” starting in 1948, focusing mainly on Palestinian deaths and displacements. |