A viral video on social media shows a purported Jewish student at UCLA attempting to access the facilities of his own campus, while being obstructed by throngs of protestors in what he contends is an illegal act.
The video, published on social media on Saturday, shows the swarthy and mop-haired student in an adversarial exchange with pro-Palestine protestors, who have formed a human barricade blocking access to one section of UCLA’s campus in the neighborhood of Westwood—a famous haven of Iranian-Americans, whose robust Persian-speaking population has earned the neighborhood the nickname “Tehrangeles” (a portmanteau of “Tehran” and “[Los] Angeles”).
UCLA Jewish student barred by fellow classmates from campus on Shabbat.
Why is UCLA Chancellor Gene Block allowing this? pic.twitter.com/hZVpATjmUF
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) April 27, 2024
“[inaudible] preventing me from entering, so I’m going to enter right now,” the man asserts at the beginning of the video.
“You pay tuition, don’t you?” the man holding the camera asks rhetorically.
“I do pay tuition!” the student in the video responds.
“This is our—I believe this is our campus,” says the star’s interlocutor behind the camera.
“Absolutely,” the swarthy man says.
He then implores two men in the human barricade “excuse me” and awkwardly feigns an attempt to push through them. One of the demonstrators, wearing a blue surgical mask and orange vest, admonishing the student “don’t try to push me.”
The student, having been thusly obstructed from crossing through the human barrier, then breaks the fourth wall, turning to address the camera directly.
“Ladies and gentlemen, they are not letting me enter public land; what they are doing is illegal,” the student says. Let’s get a nice look at their faces [at this point the cameraman pans around to show the faces of demonstrators blocking entry]. You could kiss your jobs goodbye. This is gonna go viral on social media.”
As though by power of fiat, the man’s prophecy has seemingly been fulfilled: The video was shared on X by StopAntisemitism, a group dedicated (predictably enough) to opposing incidences of purported antisemitism. The video quickly drew attention on social media, garnering over 10,000 likes on X as of writing—a mere few hours after being shared.
“UCLA Jewish student barred by fellow classmates from campus on Shabbat. Why is UCLA Chancellor Gene Block allowing this?” StopAntisemitism wrote in the post (the student’s Jewish identity and the time and setting of the incident are not specified in the video).
However, much of the response to the viral video seemed to focus less on the politics of the demonstration than on the individual’s purported good looks, with a glowing suntan and shaggy hair evocative of Southern California beach culture.
“This is a very cool and handsome young man. How could anyone be antisemitic? These masked protestors are just dead on the inside. Look at their eyes. The only part of their face you can see and it tells the whole story,” pundit Richard Hanania wrote in a post on X.
This is a very cool and handsome young man. How could anyone be antisemitic?
These masked protestors are just dead on the inside. Look at their eyes. The only part of their face you can see and it tells the whole story. pic.twitter.com/7jTvTjhvsX
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) April 27, 2024
“I am no longer neutral on this conflict and support Israel wholeheartedly,” quipped user @Mochak123.
I am no longer neutral on this conflict and support Israel wholeheartedly https://t.co/ewXLpVENaT
— Mocha (@Mochak123) April 27, 2024
The protests at UCLA are just one among many which have broken out at universities throughout the United States, nominally in protest of the State of Israel and its war on the Hamas government of Gaza.
The Westwood community hosting UCLA, as a hub of the Iranian expatriate community in Southern California, has been a center of conflicts between Jews and gentiles, as well as unexpected acts of charity and reconciliation. A 2001 article in the Los Angeles Times details how the non-Jewish, Iranian born taxi driver Dariush “Andy” Farshidian—today best-known for his colorful appearance on Comedy Central’s Nathan for You—was saved from deportation to Iran (which he claims he fled for political reasons) by a donation of $5,000 from the Iranian Jewish community—despite the perception that “relations between Iranian Jews and non-Jewish Iranians were tense.”
Andy Farshidian’s subsequent collaboration with the Canadian Jew Nathan Fielder also constitutes an instance of a Jew attempting to help a gentile, as Fielder threatens to launch a campaign of terror against the ridesharing app to support his taxi-driving friend. Though Fielder’s methods, such as secretly attempting to marry Farshidian and playing Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5” for Uber passengers, are ethically questionable, the episode reflects Fielder’s seemingly sincere concern for his Iranian friend and for the plight of taxi drivers in Los Angeles.
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