Inde­pen­dent pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Cor­nel West joins anti-Israel protest at UCLA

Inde­pen­dent pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Cor­nel West threw his sup­port behind a cam­pus protest Wednes­day against Israel’s retal­ia­to­ry mil­i­tary cam­paign in Gaza, which he called “geno­ci­dal.”
In a video state­ment on X, for­mer­ly known as Twit­ter, West said that he was going to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Los Ange­les to join a Wednes­day protest orga­nized by Stu­dents for Jus­tice in Pales­tine that is tak­ing place on more than 100 col­lege cam­pus­es all over the nation. The protest is the sec­ond such nation­al action orga­nized by the group since Hamas ter­ror­ists launched a series of attacks on Oct. 7. The attack and Israel’s s …