Nearly a month after their first encampment was cleared by law enforcement, anti-Israel protesters at the University of California, Los Angeles set up another encampment on school property, but it was short-lived. Police moved in quickly after it was established.
Occupiers set up the encampment Thursday morning as UCLA’s chancellor testified to Congress about the school’s failures to maintain a safe environment. Private security and campus police tried to isolate the camp by creating a perimeter and not allowing additional people, food, or water to enter.
‘They had been planning this encampment for a good amount of time.’
Anti-Israel protesters had been promising for weeks to take over a portion of UCLA after the first camp was dismantled in an hours-long operation by police. Other colleges have been cracking down on the camps as they create a hostile environment.
Other universities have managed to get occupiers to agree to dismantle the camps after agreeing to some or many of their demands to financially divest from Israel or participate in an academic boycott.
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