Newsom, Bass Only Upset at Campus Violence When Jews Fight Back

A Jewish woman was beaten to unconsciousness by pro-Hamas occupiers at UCLA while campus security refused to intervene. A group of Jewish students responded by returning to exact revenge and then, only then, did Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) finally find a voice to condemn “detestable violence on campus”. How convenient. How transparent. ...

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Where has Bass been for the past week or so? Where has law enforcement been to clear the illegal encampments before any violence happened?

And let’s be clear, too, that Governor Hairgel Newsom said nothing until yesterday, too, when so-called vigilantes decided to go where law enforcement refused to go.

Ed Morrissey

The retaliation is their doing. By refusing to enforce the law and stop the initial violence, Newson and Bass created the incentives for more violence. We can cluck our tongues at retaliation, but we do so by forgetting that the rule of law was designed to make lex talionis unnecessary. When the rule of law disappears, then we will quickly revert back to its predecessor out of necessity. 

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