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Students Violently Assaulted at Israel Alliance Campus Event
On February 23rd during a public lecture by Nonie Darwish, members of the audience assaulted a number of University of New Mexico (UNM) students. The public lecture, which began at 7PM in the Anthropology lecture hall, was attend by some UNM students who exercised their right to freedom of speech by vocally protesting the against the opinions put forward by Darwish. When the students raised their voices a number of audience members proceeded to get out of their seats and use force against the students. One of the students was hit in the face, another had her hair pulled, and many were pushed and shoved. One of the students caught much of these events on film before another audience member forcibly pushed down her camera. The students were then forced out of the auditorium and quickly called the UNM police who arrived and filed a report.
These students were assaulted on UNM campus for simply trying to make their voices heard and it is a shock that a non-violent action was met with such aggression.I cannot believe that men at that age are pushing around young college students, and so publicly without any shame. Absurd
holy crap I’m crying
I want EVERYONE to see this and see Americans and their hypocrisy. They talk about how we all have the freedom of speech, and somehow when their freedom of speech is threatened, they resort to violent measures.
And I’m zero percent shocked that the grown white man felt like it was okay for him to hit a brown young woman in the face.
(via sanaa-tamir)
