Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Pro-Israel Protester During Ventura County Rally in 2023
- On Tuesday, Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and battery in the 2023 death of 69-year-old Paul Kessler, accepting a Ventura County Superior Court plea deal offering probation and up to 365 days in jail.
- The deadly incident occurred on Nov. 5, 2023, during competing rallies in Thousand Oaks, where Alnaji struck Kessler with a megaphone, causing the protester to fall and hit his head on the pavement.
- Although Alnaji faced a maximum of four years in prison, Ron Bamieh, representing Alnaji, stated his client chose resolution to "prevent further community harm and violence."
- District Attorney Erik Nasarenko objected to the deal, stating his office "strongly objects to any lesser sentence," while Joshua Burt of the Anti-Defamation League called the plea deal "woefully inadequate."
- Alyza Lewin of the Combat Antisemitism Movement argued the decision gives protesters a "get out of jail free" card, potentially endangering Jewish communities across the United States.
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Muslim Jew-hating professor who beat an elderly Jewish man to death at pro-Israel rally sentenced to probation only, no jail time
LA-area county ‘strongly objects’ ahead of apparent lesser sentence for man, who pleaded guilty to killing a 69-year-old Jewish man at a pro-Israel rally. Red State A 69-year-old Jewish man, Paul Kessler, was murdered Sunday when a Muslim pro-Hamas agitator, Professor Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji, attacked him during a demonstration in Thousand Oaks, California. According to […]
Pro-Palestinian professor charged in death of Jewish demonstrator pleads guilty
A pro-Palestinian professor charged with killing a 69-year-old Jewish dad during an anti-Israel protest in southern California will not stand trial after he plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
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Jewish News Syndicate‘Woefully inadequate’ plea deal, with just a year in jail, for man who killed elderly Jew in LA, Jewish groups say
“It is disturbing to see some corners of our justice system treat the life of a Jewish American as worth so little,” Alyza Lewin, president of U.S. affairs at the Combat Antisemitism Movement, told JNS.
Kill a Jewish Man at a Pro-Israel Rally, Get Less Time Than a DUI — Welcome to California Justice
Paul Kessler was sixty-nine years old. He showed up to a pro-Israel rally in Thousand Oaks, California, because he believed in something and wasn’t afraid to stand on a street corner and say so. A man named Loay Alnaji smashed him in the face with a bullhorn. Kessler fell, cracked his head on the pavement,...
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