A fight broke out on Berkeley’s campus Wednesday after one person grabbed an Israeli flag belonging to a counter-protester.
An aggravated assault and attempted robbery of an Israeli flag occurred during an altercation at the Free Palestine Encampment just before 7 p.m. Wednesday, a UC Berkeley WarnMe email reported.
An eyewitness told The Daily Californian there was a loud confrontation between pro-Israel counter-protesters and the Free Palestine Encampment, after which a pro-Palestinian protester attempted to grab the Israeli flag from a counter-protester.
Video of the incident doesn’t show the “loud confrontation.” What it shows is a relatively calm situation until one person raced up and grabbed the flag. Then as the two men fought over it a second man came up and threw several punches at the head of the Jewish man.
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