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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">UCLA attackers exposed: meet the violent Zionist agitators LA police haven't arrested<br></h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">Wyatt Reed</div>
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<br><h3>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.</h3>
<p><span>On April 30, thirty people were </span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-10/how-social-media-rumors-sparked-a-night-of-mayhem-at-ucla"><span>injured</span></a><span>
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.</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>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. </span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>The UCPD and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department did not respond to questions from </span><span>The Grayzone about whether the persons identified in the dossier were under investigation, or had been taken into custody</span><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>Alleged attackers listed in the email include:</span></p>
<ul><li><b>Liel Asherian.</b><span><span> Asherian, who
uploaded videos directly from the scene of the attack to Facebook, was
reportedly seen assaulting pro-Palestine demonstrators with a tennis
racket. </span></span>In an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/us/ucla-counterprotesters-police-response.html">interview</a>
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.</li></ul>
<ul><li><b>Nouri Mehdizadeh.</b><span><span> 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.” </span></span>A photo of
Mehdizadeh taken shortly before the violence erupted indicates he had
foreknowledge of the assault and may have helped organize the attack.
<img src="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/unnamed-1.png?resize=601%2C1024&ssl=1" alt="" width="257" height="438" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 0px;"><em>Mehdizadeh displays a threat to student activists in the run-up to the attack: “ENJOY TONIGHT!”</em>
<p><span>Later that evening, a masked Mehdizadeh was </span><a href="https://twitter.com/PplsCityCouncil/status/1785194265301467187"><span>recorded</span></a><span>
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 <a href="https://twitter.com/MOSSADil/status/1716907663609810970">torturing and/or taunting captive</a> Palestinians on camera. Despite getting caught red-handed by several security officers — and despite nearly getting into a </span><a href="https://twitter.com/LapposAmy/status/1787668468956799135"><span>fistfight</span></a><span> with another guard in a separate incident — Mehdizadeh was allowed to remain in the area.</span></p></li><li><b>Tom Bibiyan</b><span>. 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 </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C6bdJWlL3Hn/"><span>video</span></a><span><span>
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. </span></span>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 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230528152409/https://bibiyan.org/about/">website</a>
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.</li></ul>
<ul><li><span>A man seen waving the “Moshiach” flag of the militant Zionist Chabad organization was identified by students as </span><b>Rony Yehuda</b><span>. An instagram account belonging to the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feIXrsPyCNg"><span>virtually-unknown</span></a><span><span>
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.</span></span>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 <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyRu2Wctimg/">video</a>
to Instagram showing an Israeli soldier personally thanking the group
for the equipment.The director of the nearby Chabad House <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/us/ucla-counterprotesters-police-response.html">claimed to the NY Times</a> his organization had no role in organizing the attack at UCLA.</li></ul>
<ul><li><span>Another outside agitator was </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Karmir_Kovkas/status/1785759977984159828"><span>identified</span></a><span> as </span><b>Narek Palyan</b><span>, a local Armenian activist with a penchant for </span><a href="https://twitter.com/daisykpgardner/status/1694453571096625597"><span>publicly performing</span></a><span><span>
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.</span></span>Bizarrely, Palyan claimed in an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/us/ucla-counterprotesters-police-response.html">interview</a>
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.”</li></ul>
<ul><li><span>A man seen spitting on pro-Palestine protesters and hurling racial slurs the day prior was revealed to be 23-year-old </span><b>David Kaminsky</b><span>. The trained boxer has </span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-10/how-social-media-rumors-sparked-a-night-of-mayhem-at-ucla"><span>admitted</span></a><span>
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 </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb6UAeXhCmk"><span>videos training</span></a><span> with the rapper, Blueface, who was </span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-10-02/blueface-sentenced-probation-las-vegas-shooting"><span>sentenced</span></a><span> to two years probation for a 2022 shooting at a Las Vegas strip club.</span></li></ul>
<blockquote>
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">🚨 UPDATE: The man who spat on someone and called him the “n word” at <a href="https://twitter.com/UCLA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UCLA</a> has been identified as David Kaminsky</p>
<p>He is a boxer and owns Kaminsky Boxing Gym in Los Angeles <a href="https://t.co/PTGnQjxz97">pic.twitter.com/PTGnQjxz97</a></p>
<p>— Stop Arab Hate (@StopArabHate) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopArabHate/status/1784969866652348693?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<ul><li><b>Aaron Cohen</b><span>. 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 </span><i><span>Fauda</span></i><span> was based. Though he hasn’t been accused of participating in violence directly, shortly before the raid, Cohen </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6dW_Y7us5t/"><span>wrote</span></a><span> on Instagram</span><b>:</b><span>
“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.”</span></li></ul>
<p><span>Also present in the run-up to the attack were members of </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/magenamusa/"><b>Magen Am</b></a><span>,
a Los Angeles-based Jewish private security firm founded in 2017 by
Yossi Eilfort, an MMA fighter-turned-Chabad rabbi. Magen Am, which </span><a href="https://archive.is/qtvZK"><span>claims </span></a><span>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.”</span></p>
<p><span>Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Eilfort </span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-10/how-social-media-rumors-sparked-a-night-of-mayhem-at-ucla"><span>admitted</span></a><span>
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 </span><a href="https://x.com/antwann4real/status/1788313297483440287"><span>ripping them away</span></a><span> from the encampment. </span></p>
<p><span>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.”</span></p>
<blockquote>
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">"I see Magen Am as the next evolution of an organised public/private first responder partnership in the community."</p>
<p>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? <a href="https://t.co/WPG9AJCKD6">pic.twitter.com/WPG9AJCKD6</a></p>
<p>— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1786761447604707494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p><span>That “partnership” appears to be paying off, with Magen Am now
openly boasting about its ability to influence LAPD operations. In an
Instagram post </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/magenamusa/reel/C1-PwBHP0hp/"><span>published</span></a><span>
in early January, the group wrote that the LAPD’s new “online hate
incident reporting policy” had been “spearheaded by Magen Am.”</span></p>
<p><span>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:</span></p>
<p><span>“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.”</span></p>
<img src="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1709742704679.jpeg?resize=1024%2C772&ssl=1" alt="" width="438" height="330" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 25px;"><em>Magen Am leaders can be seen posing with police officers at <i><span>the March 2024 StandWithUs </span></i><a href="https://www.standwithus.com/international-conference"><i><span>international conference</span></i></a><i><span> in Los Angeles in photos </span></i><a href="https://archive.is/lDX5x"><i><span>posted</span></i></a><i> </i>to LinkedIn.</em>
<p><img src="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1709742695864.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&ssl=1" alt="" width="438" height="329" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 0px;"></p>
<p><span>But their links to the security state don’t end there. Magen Am’s official website </span><a href="https://archive.is/0GYXe"><span>boasts</span></a><span>: “</span><b>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</b><span>.” 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.”</span></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><span>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:</span></p>
<ul><li><span>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.</span></li></ul>
<blockquote>
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">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. <a href="https://t.co/An3biNOiQx">https://t.co/An3biNOiQx</a></p>
<p>— doloresquintana (@doloresquintana) <a href="https://twitter.com/doloresquintana/status/1786936881114193928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<ul><li><span>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.</span></li></ul>
<p><img src="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/unnamed.png?resize=945%2C1024&ssl=1" alt="" width="404" height="438" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 0px;"></p>
<p><span>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. </span></p>
<p><span>But the mollycoddling of violent pro-Israel agitators does not appear to be limited to UCLA.</span></p>
<p><span>Though he’s been </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/professor-seen-video-verbally-attacking-woman-hijab-will-no-longer-tea-rcna151760"><span>removed</span></a><span> from his postdoctoral teaching position at Arizona State University, <strong>Jonathan Yudelman</strong>, who moonlights as an </span><a href="https://www.uaustin.org/people/jonathan-yudelman"><span>assistant professor</span></a><span>
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 </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/asu-scholar-leave-video-verbal-attack-woman-hijab-goes-viral-rcna151165"><span>call</span></a><span><span><span><span>
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.”</span></span></span></span></p>
<blockquote>
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">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.<a href="https://twitter.com/Princeton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@princeton</a> this is unacceptable and he must immediately be investigated.</p>
<p>Twitter, do your thing. <a href="https://t.co/gptlDfHumx">pic.twitter.com/gptlDfHumx</a></p>
<p>— Niz (@NizMhani) <a href="https://twitter.com/NizMhani/status/1787529976872304662?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Another agitator filmed in the incident was <a href="https://twitter.com/gazanotice/status/1787476682099556738">identified</a> by social media users as <strong>Sammy Ben</strong>,
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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/week-later-still-no-arrests-194743597.html">told</a> HuffPost.</p>
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