The police charged Edan On, an 18-year-old high school senior, with felony assault for attacking at least one person with a wooden pole. He was remanded to a Los Angeles jail, where he's being held on a $30,000 bond, according toThe Guardian. On was first identified for his role in the mob attack, led by so-called counterprotestors, in a CNNinvestigation published May 16.

Thistle Boosinger, a 23-year-old member of the encampment, had her hand smashed. "My bone is broken totally in half below my knuckle… [which is] shattered into a bunch of pieces and jumbled up," she told CNN. In another incident during the attack, a fourth-year UCLA student suffered two head injuries in a matter of minutes. After being hit in the forehead with a traffic cone, he was hit in the back of the head with a wooden plank, video shows.

On's mother, who had previously described UCLA student protesters as "human animals," bragged about his role in the attack on social media, even circling an image of him. "Edan went to bully the Palestinian students in the tents at UCLA and played the song that they played to the Nukhba terrorists in prison!" she wrote in Hebrew, CNN reported. When the outlet sought an interview with On, his mother claimed that he was in Israel and planned to join the Israel Defense Forces.

News of On's arrest followed other events Thursday related to pro-Palestine activism at UCLA. Block testified before the Republican-led U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, some of whose members grilled him for being inattentive to antisemitism on campus. Taking an opposing position, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) asked why no one had been held to account for the mob attack, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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1. Police arrest man suspected of assaulting pro-Palestinian demonstrators at UCLA [Dani Anguiano | 24 May 2024 | The Guardian] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/ucla-arrest-man-assault-demonstrators-palestine
2. Unmasking counterprotesters who attacked UCLA’s pro-Palestine encampment [Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Allison Gordon, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Em Steck, Daniel Medina, Kyung Lah, and Anna-Maja Rappard | May 16 2024 | CNN] https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/ucla-student-protests-counterprotesters-invs
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7. Analysis Finds Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful [Julia Conley | May 10 2024 | Common Dreams] https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-peaceful-protests
8. More than 800 faculty and staff at UCLA call for chancellor’s resignation [Sam Levin | 10 May 2024 | The Guardian] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/09/ucla-faculty-chancellors-resignation-campus-protests
9. UCLA faculty reject censure and no confidence resolutions against chancellor after attack on pro-Palestinian encampment [Dalia Faheid, Paradise Afshar | May 18 2024 | CNN] https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/18/us/ucla-faculty-rejects-censure-gene-block/index.html
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12. At U.C.L.A., Protesters Briefly Form Encampment and Occupy Building Before Police Move In [Jonathan Wolfe, Grace Whitaker, and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs | May 23 2024 | NY Times]