When Peter Ross heard an explosion in the encampment at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) on the night of April 30, he didn’t know what it was. He witnessed supporters of Israel attack fellow students the day prior, so he expected a confrontation. But this was worse than he’d imagined.
“I was on the other side of the camp and heard a loud explosion,” Ross, a UCLA graduate worker whom Jacobin has granted a pseudonym due to the doxing of pro-Palestinian UCLA students, recalled. “It could have been a bomb for all I knew. And then I saw fireworks shot into the camp explode on the ground, and there were students screaming. I ran up to the barricade and I saw a huge group of people who seemed…