Benjamin Kersten, a Jewish graduate student at UCLA and a pro-Palestinian protester, has expressed his pride in the students at the university who are actively involved in a student-led activist effort regarding Israel's war in Gaza. Kersten emphasized the importance of remaining principled and clear-eyed about the stakes involved in the conflict.
As a student in the United States, Kersten highlighted the refusal of complicity in the escalation of violence and called for the divestment of UCLA funds from weapons manufacturing and companies complicit in what he described as Israeli genocide, occupation, and apartheid.
