Chaos erupts as anti-Israel activists trap Jewish students inside UK lecture hall

[leftynyc]

Source: Jerusalem Post

Chaos erupted at a London University lecture hall on Friday after anti-Israel protestors crashed an event hosted by Jewish students, trapping attendees inside, according to The Jewish Chronicle.

Police were summoned to the event at University College London (UCL) shortly thereafter and escorted the Jewish students from the building.

According to the Chronicle, the event was thrown into turmoil after protestors entered the lecture hall chanting "shame, shame" while waving Palestinian flags as IDF veteran Hen Mazzig was delivering a speech.

Mazzig, an openly gay IDF commander who served in Israel's armed forces for five years, also expressed his shock through Twitter, writing: "I had to be rushed out of the event at @UCL with security. The campus was the war zone and the streets are the safe place. I'm out. My god."


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I mean, WTF? Does anyone think this is helpful in the slightest?

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. The people who did that aren't trying to help.

[forest444]

2. So much so in fact

that it sounds like psy-ops.

[leftynyc]

4. Just like your comment

sounds like blaming the victims.

[forest444]

7. The victims are victims, and I very much doubt they had anything to do with it at all.

It's the nature of the attack itself one should be skeptical about, rather simply than parroting the media (and yes, they may be right). It's good to be skeptical; otherwise you get a Bush/Cheney situation, as you know.

[leftynyc]

8. This is hardly the first time

Or the tenth time, or the hundredth time, that a pro-Israel event on a college campus has been interrupted by antisemitic/anti-Zionist assholes. Do some research and you would know better than saying it could be a set up.

[forest444]

9. You're probably right. High-impact news like these before a major election always make me suspicious

Above all I'm thankful no one was hurt.

[leftynyc]

10. It was a university in London

so our election has nothing to do with it at all.

[forest444]

13. Au contraire. World news like these could have impacted this election, had there been deaths.

Which, thankfully, there weren't.

[luvmybluestate]

15. anti israel doesn't have to mean anti semitic/anti zionist. i just abhor the way the palestinians

are treated. and i hate my tax dollars supporting israeli terrorists. feel the same about supporting saudia arabia, too

[awoke_in_2003]

19. The Palestinians...

are quite capable of doing stupid stuff on their own.

[MicaelS]

3. Why am I not surprised.

[NaturalHigh]

5. Thugs.

[okaawhatever]

6. Damn. We humans are better than this. nt

[romanic]

17. My word.

They might as well have invited Neo-Nazis to join in and terrorize the Jewish audience. It looked that bad.

[philosslayer]

20. So what is the solution?

It seems to me that if events such as this are going to cause violent reactions, then they shouldn't be scheduled on campus.

American and Canadian colleges have faced similar issues in recent years. Some speakers have either had events cancelled or denied because administrators feared violence.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/coulter-speech-cancelled-over-fears-of-violence-1.494773

https://www.thefire.org/at-university-of-nebraska-lincoln-cancellation-of-ayers-speech-raises-troubling-questions/

[hack89]

22. So if neo-Nazis start disrupting progressive speakers

The only solution is to stop scheduling progressive speakers? Let the violent people get their way?

[philosslayer]

23. That horse has left the barn

American college campuses are already cancelling speakers that they think will evoke a violent response.

[hack89]

24. And you think this is right?

Not worth fighting back? Just give in to violent people?

[philosslayer]

25. I don't hear a huge groundswell of opposition to it

Do you?

Seems to me that since this is happening at American Universities, then American University students would be most affected, and would be taking to the streets in protest. But they aren't. Therefore, I'm not losing any sleep over it.

[Behind the Aegis]

28. That does appear what the poster is saying or rather...

"Freedom of assembly for me but not for thee."

If the tables were turned, I guarantee the response would be much fucking different.

[romanic]

27. Swimming down a creek in a canoe.

Don't forget to pack your hijab and poncho for the trip.

[leftynyc]

29. Punish the Jewish organizations

because some protesters can't control themselves? Not going to happen.

[AngryAmish]

21. Poor Man's Kristallnacht

[marybourg]

26. Agree. nt.