California city council meetings stir up heated debate over calls for Gaza cease-fire
California city council meetings stir up heated debate over calls for Gaza cease-fire
- April 2, 2024
- Alon Burstein, poli sci, Los Angeles Times, Yahoo News, AOL.com, April 2, 2024
“The local repercussions of this war are just bigger than we’ve seen in the history of the conflict,” said Alon Burstein, a visiting professor of political science at UC Irvine. “We’ve always seen ricochets and rise of antisemitism and Islamophobia when these cycles erupt, but never anything on the scale we’re seeing now.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-02/california-city-council-meetings-stir-up-heated-debate-over-calls-for-gaza-cease-fire.
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