<p>Los Angeles: Violent clashes erupted on Wednesday on the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) between pro-Palestinian protesters and a group of counter-demonstrators, according to live video coverage provided by a US broadcaster.</p>.<p>The UCLA student newspaper <em>Daily Bruin</em> said supporters of Israel had tried to tear down a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the campus</p><p>Police were responding to UCLA Chancellor Gene Block's request for support, Zach Seidl, Los Angeles Deputy Mayor of Communications, said on X.</p>.<p>The Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas militants from Gaza and the ensuing Israeli offensive on the Palestinian enclave, have unleashed the biggest outpouring of US student activism since the anti-racism protests of 2020.</p>.Israel supporters are pushing back pro-Palestine protests at UCLA.<p>Aerial footage from broadcaster <em>KABC</em>, an affiliate of <em>ABC</em>, showed people wielding sticks or poles to attack wooden boards being held up as a makeshift barricade to protect pro-Palestinian protesters, some holding placards or umbrellas. Late on Tuesday, New York City police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators holed-up in an academic building on Columbia University campus in New York and removed a protest encampment that the Ivy League school had sought to dismantle for nearly two weeks.</p>
<p>Los Angeles: Violent clashes erupted on Wednesday on the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) between pro-Palestinian protesters and a group of counter-demonstrators, according to live video coverage provided by a US broadcaster.</p>.<p>The UCLA student newspaper <em>Daily Bruin</em> said supporters of Israel had tried to tear down a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the campus</p><p>Police were responding to UCLA Chancellor Gene Block's request for support, Zach Seidl, Los Angeles Deputy Mayor of Communications, said on X.</p>.<p>The Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas militants from Gaza and the ensuing Israeli offensive on the Palestinian enclave, have unleashed the biggest outpouring of US student activism since the anti-racism protests of 2020.</p>.Israel supporters are pushing back pro-Palestine protests at UCLA.<p>Aerial footage from broadcaster <em>KABC</em>, an affiliate of <em>ABC</em>, showed people wielding sticks or poles to attack wooden boards being held up as a makeshift barricade to protect pro-Palestinian protesters, some holding placards or umbrellas. Late on Tuesday, New York City police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators holed-up in an academic building on Columbia University campus in New York and removed a protest encampment that the Ivy League school had sought to dismantle for nearly two weeks.</p>