Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Thursday criticized UCLA Chancellor Gene Block for allowing pro-Israel counterprotesters to screen a “vile” video of the October 7 atrocity across from a pro-Palestinian “encampment.”
Omar asked Bullock at a House Education and Labor Committee hearing discussing anti-Semitism at UCLA and other universities, where she testified alongside the presidents of Northwestern University and Rutgers University.
As Breitbart News noted, a pro-Palestinian “encampment” that began on April 25 occupied public areas of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a public university, where activists used anti-Semitic rhetoric and barred Jewish students and journalists from entering.
To avoid confrontation, the university did not allow UC Police or campus security to get involved, essentially allowing activists to form their own police force and set up checkpoints on campus.
Pro-Israel demonstrators in the surrounding Jewish neighborhoods staged counter-protests, at one point setting up a large screen showing footage of the October 7 Hamas terror attack.
As Breitbart News noted, the screen was built in part with funding from Jerry Seinfeld’s wife, Jessica, and was placed in a public area.
Omar complained about the “vile” footage, which portrayed pro-Palestinian students and Palestinians as victims and failed to acknowledge that the footage showed Palestinians committing atrocities, as was the case in “Encampment.”
Omar attended camp at Columbia University, and her daughter, Isla, was banned from the campus.
Omar’s own anti-Israel and anti-Semitic views have been on public record both before and after her time in office.
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