The Los Angeles Police Department has moved to clear out the campus protests at University of California, Los Angeles, and as the demonstrators are forced out by the strong arm of law enforcement, all that remains is a —the graveyard of their activist dreams, now little more than a junkyard of debris and hubris.
A video of the scene of the protest was posted by user John Baird and shared on X by user Kingsley Wilson, who observed an apparent incongruity between the purported environmentalism of many pro-Palestine activists and the ruinous state of the campus after their mass demonstration, which flared up into violence between protestors and counterprotestors earlier this week.
The climate commies at UCLA don’t care about the environment pic.twitter.com/c5iGxkUtWO
— Kingsley Wilson (@KingsleyCortes) May 2, 2024
Though UCLA’s main campus is situated in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Westwood, known for its nearly eternal sunshine and fair weather, the sky above the wasteland in the video appears unusually overcast, further complementing the feeling of ruin which permeates the scene.
“Taking a look around the encampment after police have gone through here and forced the pro-Palestinian demonstrators out. CHP tells me that a hundred people were taken into custody after this operation—took about three hours,” the narrator behind the camera says in Baird’s video.
“What a mess,” is the narrator’s only comment about the state of the campus.
Among the campus protests against Israel which have broken out throughout the United States in the past month, the demonstrations at UCLA are unique for the scale and vigilance of the counterprotestors, who mounted a muscular and zealous response to the keffiyeh-clad activists on campus. These two factions broke out into sporadic brawls and screaming matches last week, and the demonstrators put out a list of requested items earlier this week—many consisting of protective gear in preparation for clashes with both counterprotestors and law enforcement—a clash which has come to life in recent hours, though the helmets, gas masks, and kneepads seem to have done little against the efforts of professional riot police.
Despite the ruin which has befallen UCLA in recent days, the sunny Westside neighborhood is better known for its thriving Iranian-American community than for the chaos and destruction of anti-Israel demonstrations. Nicknamed “Tehrangels” (a portmanteau of “Tehran” and “[Los] Angeles” due to its status as the epicenter of the Persian diaspora in the United States, the neighborhood is no stranger to tensions between Jews and gentiles, as the Iranian community in the area is starkly divided between Iranian Jews and Iranian goyim—mostly of Muslim descent, though with varying degrees of religiosity.
However, the community has also seen instances of collaboration and solidarity between these sometimes adversarial groups. 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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