[News] UCLA attackers exposed: meet the violent Zionist agitators LA police haven't arrested
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UCLA attackers exposed: meet the violent Zionist agitators LA police
haven't arrested
Wyatt Reed
May 13, 2024
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The Grayzone has obtained a dossier detailing the identities of the Zionist
hooligans who assaulted UCLA anti-genocide student protesters. It was sent
to LA police, but no arrests have been made. And the cops still can’t
explain why they disappeared for hours during the mob attack.
On April 30, thirty people were injured
<https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-10/how-social-media-rumors-sparked-a-night-of-mayhem-at-ucla>
when a mob of Zionist hooligans savagely assaulted the pro-Palestine UCLA
encampment shortly before midnight. For over three hours, local and campus
police stood down as the masked thugs assaulted students, journalists, and
even officers of the law with fireworks volleys, pepper spray, and metal
pipes. Though multiple attackers have been identified by community members
on social media, to date there have been no arrests of pro-Israel goons.
The Grayzone has obtained a dossier composed by anonymous sleuths claiming
involvement with the UCLA student protests which apparently identifies some
of the attack’s perpetrators. The students emailed the document to the UCLA
administration and police (UCPD), as well as Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
It contains detailed information about the identities of those who were
filmed carrying out wanton violence.
Los Angeles-area police have arrested droves of students protesting
Israel’s US-backed genocide in Gaza, accusing over 40 students and
journalists of “conspiracy to commit burglary” for attempting a sit-in on
school grounds. Yet local authorities have made a grand total of zero
arrests in the coordinated Zionist mob assault against UCLA anti-genocide
protesters on April 30.
The LA Times has reported that local law enforcement is relying on
sophisticated facial recognition technology to hunt down the attackers. But
as the UCLA sleuths’ dossier makes clear, many assailants have already been
identified by matching their identities with social media profiles.
The UCPD and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department did not respond to
questions from The Grayzone about whether the persons identified in the
dossier were under investigation, or had been taken into custody.
Alleged attackers listed in the email include:
- *Liel Asherian.* Asherian, who uploaded videos directly from the scene
of the attack to Facebook, was reportedly seen assaulting pro-Palestine
demonstrators with a tennis racket. In an interview
<https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/us/ucla-counterprotesters-police-response.html>
with the New York Times, Asherian claimed without offering a shred of
evidence that he was called a “dirty Jew” and doused in pepper spray. “That
made me start breaking down their barricades,” he stated.
- *Nouri Mehdizadeh.* Footage from before and after the attacks show
Medizadeh was a constant presence on the periphery of the protest
encampment. According to the email from student activists, Mehdizadeh “was
involved in planning violence continuously” and UCLA officials were
likewise “warned about him continuously.” The email’s author suggested
Mehdizadeh’s actions would constitute hate crimes, given that he
“referenced a desire to attack those who were not his “Jewish brothers.” A
photo of Mehdizadeh taken shortly before the violence erupted indicates he
had foreknowledge of the assault and may have helped organize the
attack. *Mehdizadeh
displays a threat to student activists in the run-up to the attack: “ENJOY
TONIGHT!”*
Later that evening, a masked Mehdizadeh was recorded
<https://twitter.com/PplsCityCouncil/status/1785194265301467187>
attempting to destroy barricades while a compatriot with a speaker blasted
“Mani Mantera,” a Hebrew-language children’s song that Israeli soldiers
have played while torturing and/or taunting captive
<https://twitter.com/MOSSADil/status/1716907663609810970> Palestinians
on camera. Despite getting caught red-handed by several security officers —
and despite nearly getting into a fistfight
<https://twitter.com/LapposAmy/status/1787668468956799135> with another
guard in a separate incident — Mehdizadeh was allowed to remain in the area.
- *Tom Bibiyan*. Footage uploaded to social media by Bibiyan himself
reveals he personally participated in the April 30 attacks. A day after the
assault, Bibiyan published a video
<https://www.instagram.com/p/C6bdJWlL3Hn/> on Instagram highlighting his
involvement, alongside a caption boasting that “we rushed the terrorist
encampment.” When another Instagram user asked Bibiyan to clarify his role
in the violence, he bragged, “yeah I’m in this video” – apparently
confident that he would face no legal repercussions for his crimes. Bibiyan
reportedly spent several years participating in questionable cryptocurrency
schemes while part of the Los Angeles NFT community, before being exiled
from such groups following accusations of indecent exposure and sexual
harassment. A website
<https://web.archive.org/web/20230528152409/https://bibiyan.org/about/>
representing the Bibiyan Family Philanthropic Foundation indicates the
family regularly donated to not only vehemently Zionist groups like the
zealous and insular Chabad ultra-Orthodox cult, but also to liberal news
outlets like Democracy Now.
- A man seen waving the “Moshiach” flag of the militant Zionist Chabad
organization was identified by students as *Rony Yehuda*. An instagram
account belonging to the virtually-unknown
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feIXrsPyCNg> pro-Israeli rapper,
@Judah_fire_, indicates Yehuda is a Los Angeles resident. The email by
student organizers said the 35-year-old provocateur has returned to UCLA
campus on multiple occasions since the attacks, despite lacking any
affiliation with the school — and despite claims by students that they
alerted police to the presence of the aggressive outsiders.Among the
most prominent cheerleaders of Yehuda’s actions were members of Team
Moshiach, a Chabad-affiliated outfit which describes itself as “a global
non-profit organization that unites Jews from around the world in acts of
goodness and kindness.” In the days following October 7, Team Moshiach
spearheaded a campaign to funnel military hardware to the Israeli military,
and even uploaded a video <https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyRu2Wctimg/>
to Instagram showing an Israeli soldier personally thanking the group for
the equipment.The director of the nearby Chabad House claimed to the NY
Times
<https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/us/ucla-counterprotesters-police-response.html>
his organization had no role in organizing the attack at UCLA.
- Another outside agitator was identified
<https://twitter.com/Karmir_Kovkas/status/1785759977984159828> as *Narek
Palyan*, a local Armenian activist with a penchant for publicly
performing
<https://twitter.com/daisykpgardner/status/1694453571096625597> the Nazi
‘sieg heil’ salute, and who frequently posts material idolizing the Third
Reich. Though the alliance between Zionist Jews and an avowed anti-semite
might strike some as confusing, there is a long and well-documented history
of collaboration between the two forces, which fundamentally depend on one
another for their survival.Bizarrely, Palyan claimed in an interview
<https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/us/ucla-counterprotesters-police-response.html>
with the NY Times that he only appeared at the protest “because he had seen
a video of a Jewish woman on the pro-Palestinian side criticizing white
people.”
- A man seen spitting on pro-Palestine protesters and hurling racial
slurs the day prior was revealed to be 23-year-old *David Kaminsky*. The
trained boxer has admitted
<https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-10/how-social-media-rumors-sparked-a-night-of-mayhem-at-ucla>
calling a student the n-word but denied accusations that he committed
violent assaults, claiming he wasn’t in the vicinity of UCLA campus during
the mob attack. Kaminsy has appeared in videos training
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb6UAeXhCmk> with the rapper, Blueface,
who was sentenced
<https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-10-02/blueface-sentenced-probation-las-vegas-shooting>
to two years probation for a 2022 shooting at a Las Vegas strip club.
🚨 UPDATE: The man who spat on someone and called him the “n word” at @UCLA
<https://twitter.com/UCLA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> has been identified as David
Kaminsky
He is a boxer and owns Kaminsky Boxing Gym in Los Angeles
pic.twitter.com/PTGnQjxz97 <https://t.co/PTGnQjxz97>
— Stop Arab Hate (@StopArabHate) April 29, 2024
<https://twitter.com/StopArabHate/status/1784969866652348693?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
- *Aaron Cohen*. Cohen is an Israeli ‘counterterrorism analyst’ who
embedded with police shortly before their May 2 raid on the encampment
while shooting an ‘undercover’ special for television personality Dr. Phil.
The actor previously served in Duvdevan, the infamous Israeli military unit
upon which Netflix’s notoriously propagandistic series *Fauda* was
based. Though he hasn’t been accused of participating in violence directly,
shortly before the raid, Cohen wrote
<https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6dW_Y7us5t/> on Instagram*:* “I just
wrapped [up] a [sic] independent quiet infiltration operation for @drphil
tonight into the heart of the UCLA encampment. I’m now down here with LASDs
elite SRT who’s staging now and preparing to make entry onto the pro terror
antisemitic encampment.”
Also present in the run-up to the attack were members of *Magen Am*
<https://www.instagram.com/magenamusa/>, a Los Angeles-based Jewish private
security firm founded in 2017 by Yossi Eilfort, an MMA
fighter-turned-Chabad rabbi. Magen Am, which claims
<https://archive.is/qtvZK>to employ 12 former Israeli and US soldiers,
bills itself as “the only Jewish, non-profit organization licensed to
provide physical, armed security services on the West Coast of the United
States.”
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Eilfort admitted
<https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-10/how-social-media-rumors-sparked-a-night-of-mayhem-at-ucla>
coordinating with UCLA on an April 28 counter-protest aimed at antagonizing
the pro-Palestine encampment, which featured speakers including an Israeli
diplomat and a member of the California State Assembly. Footage published
to social media appears to show a member of the group hulking over students
and violently ripping them away
<https://x.com/antwann4real/status/1788313297483440287> from the
encampment.
The group maintains a close working relationship with local law
enforcement. At the conclusion of a training ceremony in 2020, LAPD
commander Vic Davalos publicly declared: “I see Magen Am as the next
evolution of an organized public/private first responder partnership in the
community.”
"I see Magen Am as the next evolution of an organised public/private first
responder partnership in the community."
LAPD commander Vic Davalos praises the Zionist militia group Magen Am,
which is staffed by former Israeli military personnel. Did it have a role
in clearing UCLA? pic.twitter.com/WPG9AJCKD6 <https://t.co/WPG9AJCKD6>
— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) May 4, 2024
<https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1786761447604707494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
That “partnership” appears to be paying off, with Magen Am now openly
boasting about its ability to influence LAPD operations. In an Instagram
post published <https://www.instagram.com/magenamusa/reel/C1-PwBHP0hp/> in
early January, the group wrote that the LAPD’s new “online hate incident
reporting policy” had been “spearheaded by Magen Am.”
In an accompanying video, the now-deceased head of Magen Am, Ivan Wolkind,
described the change as “a project that we’ve been working on for about a
year with LAPD,” and offered a hint as to its purpose:
“Why are we excited about this and why is it important to report these
incidents? … First of all, every police department in the country makes
resource allocation decisions based on the number of incidents reported. If
these incidents are occurring in our community and we don’t report them,
the LAPD has no way of knowing that they should allocate more staff time
and more patrols in our areas.”
*Magen Am leaders can be seen posing with police officers at the March 2024
StandWithUs international conference
<https://www.standwithus.com/international-conference> in Los Angeles in
photos posted <https://archive.is/lDX5x> to LinkedIn.*
But their links to the security state don’t end there. Magen Am’s official
website boasts <https://archive.is/0GYXe>: “*We have direct connections at
the FBI and Local law enforcement, including the LAPD, Sheriff’s
Department, DA’s office and the US Attorney’s office*.” This means, they
say, that “If, G-d forbid, an incident occurs that requires immediate
attention, Magen Am is able to push it all the way up the chain of command.”
The Grayzone wrote to Magen Am to inquire whether any of its members were
involved in the April 30 attack, and solicited their opinion on the
violence, but received no response. Phone calls to Magen Am’s Los Angeles
office also went unanswered.
As of publication, some of the most violent perpetrators in the April 30
mob assault have yet to be identified. According to students, these include:
- A man in a red bandana, seen beating students with a rod, who admitted
during an interview with local media during the mob assault that he was not
a UCLA student – a literal outside agitator.
What a shock. Red Bandana, one of the terrorist ringleaders who likely beat
a UCLA student so badly he was hospitalized, is not a student at the
school. I mean it's not like we can't tell just from looking at him that
he's not a college student. If you got info, drop it.
https://t.co/An3biNOiQx
— doloresquintana (@doloresquintana) May 5, 2024
<https://twitter.com/doloresquintana/status/1786936881114193928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
- A large man in a white t-shirt and Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap,
who was accused of violence against students on April 30, remains
unidentified as well.
So far, none of the figures listed above has faced legal consequences for
the well-documented acts of violence they carried out against peaceful
student protesters.
But the mollycoddling of violent pro-Israel agitators does not appear to be
limited to UCLA.
Though he’s been removed
<https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/professor-seen-video-verbally-attacking-woman-hijab-will-no-longer-tea-rcna151760>
from his postdoctoral teaching position at Arizona State University, *Jonathan
Yudelman*, who moonlights as an assistant professor
<https://www.uaustin.org/people/jonathan-yudelman> at the University of
Texas, has so far faced no legal repercussions after being filmed hurling
sexist obscenities while physically intimidating a Muslim woman in Tempe –
despite a call
<https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/asu-scholar-leave-video-verbal-attack-woman-hijab-goes-viral-rcna151165>
by the Council of American Islamic Relations’ chapter in Arizona for “law
enforcement to arrest… Yudelman for allegedly harassing and assaulting a
Muslim woman in a hijab during his participation in a pro-Israel protest
near campus.”
This is Jonathan Yudelman, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton
University, verbally abusing a Muslim woman, invading her personal space &
forcing his body towards hers. at princeton
<https://twitter.com/Princeton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> this is unacceptable
and he must immediately be investigated.
Twitter, do your thing. pic.twitter.com/gptlDfHumx <https://t.co/gptlDfHumx>
— Niz (@NizMhani) May 6, 2024
<https://twitter.com/NizMhani/status/1787529976872304662?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
Another agitator filmed in the incident was identified
<https://twitter.com/gazanotice/status/1787476682099556738> by social media
users as *Sammy Ben*, a US citizen who has recently documented himself
repeatedly violating the Geneva Conventions while he spent two months
occupying Gaza in an Israeli uniform, despite holding only a tourist visa.
Meanwhile, at Columbia University, two former Israeli army soldiers who
attacked students with toxic chemical “skunk” fluid this January, sending
at least 10 anti-genocide protesters to the emergency room, have not been
expelled from campus, nor have they been arrested. “There are no arrests,
and the investigation is ongoing,” an NYPD spokesperson told
<https://sg.news.yahoo.com/week-later-still-no-arrests-194743597.html>
HuffPost.
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