A 69-year-old Jewish man died on Monday after falling and hitting his head during an altercation with pro-Palestinian protesters in California, according to authorities.
Paul Kessler succumbed to injuries sustained at dueling demonstrations on Sunday in Thousand Oaks and authorities are investigating his death as a possible hate crime, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said.
Kessler, an Israel supporter, was involved in a scuffle with pro-Palestinian protesters around 3:20 p.m. when he suffered a head injury during the confrontation, authorities and family friends said.
An autopsy conducted Monday determined Kessler’s manner of death was a homicide, and the cause of death was blunt force head injury, the sheriff’s office said.
The Los Angeles Times reported Kessler was struck in the head before he was knocked over, citing deputies.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles said in a statement Kessler was hit with a megaphone, but authorities didn’t mention that assertion Monday.
Rabbi Moshe Bryski, a local rabbi from Chabad of Agoura Hills, told The NY Post Kessler’s death was “just a tragedy.”
Kessler’s wife was “in a state of total shock” when he called her this morning, he noted. Kessler was a counter-protester to a pro-Palestinian demonstration, he said.
“You don’t expect people to go to a rally and not come home,” Bryski said.
No arrests were announced in Monday’s press release from the sheriff’s office. Ventura County Sheriff Jim Fryhoff will hold a press conference at 10 a.m. local time Tuesday where more information could be disclosed.
Footage circulating on social media of the purported incident shows a man lying on the ground with an apparent head injury as two people, including a woman with a jacket emblazoned with “Free Palestine,” come to his aid.
Paul Kessler was killed in Los Angeles because he was a Jew.
It is not because of Gaza, it is because of antisemitism.This is what happens when protesters glorify Hamas and call to “globalize the intifada.”
They don’t love Palestinians, they hate Jews. pic.twitter.com/ZDxkngPE47— יאיר לפיד – Yair Lapid (@yairlapid) November 7, 2023
How are all these crazy things happening in America?? And why are higher forces not doing anything about it???
They are doing plenty about it. This could not be possible without their assistance. Wake up! they are your enemies! They want the chaos violence and fear. Best way to control you and get filthy rich. The only problem is that the beast they build has no morals or loyalty and will turn on them the minute they gain control. Same process how the USSR came about. They already purged the police. Destroyed the black communities with terrible education and policy. Now it’s the turn of all the Uber liberal Jews that got brainwashed and helped the revolution. The rest… Read more »
It’s too late, an entire generation has been indoctrinated in university’s etc.
It seems the Palestinian in the photo is trying to attend to the victim. If this is the case let’s acknowledge it. Humanity should be celebrated especially in times like these.
Has been confirmed that you’re correct. She may or may not be Palestinian, but she definitely is Muslim and pro-Palestinian, yet attempting to assist the man who was dying
Fine, one tzaddik in Sdom.
Doesn’t look like giving aid or assistance at all. Just observing. Maybe and probably hoping he would die.
It says that on TYW
Or he is making sure he is dead , are you serious after killing him he is attending to him and you call that humanity where did tou learn humanity with the SS ? how cynical are you ? Have you seen the raw videos of Hamas ? How cruel are you ? a man is dead but it doesn’t other you a bit of course because he is Jewish, sick!
Are you blind. It’s a she not a he. And why are saying that she is the one that hit the man.
Backtracking to make it appear ‘they didn’t mean it’. Typical behavior of the cowardly murderers.
Humanity?????!!!!!!! Killing someone and then making sure that he’s dead is considered humane??????!!!!!
Thank you!
What is there to acknowledge? That after a propalestinian protestor killed a Jewish man there was a Muslim women kind enough to show compassion? If she truly is an empathetic individual then may this horror she witnessed open her eyes to the barbarism that she is advocating for. She witnessed a fellow protestor kill a Jew. The man hasn’t even been arrested yet. This is big news. It needs to reach every station.
wow, thats what you focus on,
shame on you!
What do you think they were chanting there?
Would she really be upset to know that the Jewish man died R”L?
הי”ד.
No one there is supporting human rights, they are all there with hate. Hate for us.
Either ones for or against. Murderers
Let’s also make sure that we mention about the increase of Islamophobia.
She is on video, laughing while the kadosh victim is being carried to the ambulance.
And must be completely destroyed together with the toxic media
Please link to the video
Hamas is here, wake up and smell the coffee, time to fight back with TOTAL destruction, don’t come with distractions you are dealing with amolek, Naase Venishma
Why “suspected”?
Why was the palestinian not arrested yet???
Arab
No such thing as Palestinian unless you were a Jew born in Jerusalem prior to 1947.
The biggest insult you could have given an Arab back then was call them Palestinian.
Palestinian was a derogatory term used on the Jews specifically to shame them.
No Arab would want to insult their honor.
How times have changed.
This clearly defined as second degree murder at the least, we as a community must for the soul of the victim and to set an example that this barbarism will not be tolerated MUST DEMAND the district attorney investgates and prosecutes this individual for the crime committed!
The lack of accountability for violence committed by antifa and BLM back in 2020 is indicative of what we can expect today. The people in charge of law enforcement are complicit. Last time around the police were the target. This time around it seems to be us.
It ain’t fair but this is reality. Act accordingly
Several similar incidents in Chicago, which BH did not end as badly. Be vigilant and daven for Moshiach now!
A national movement that at its core, constantly spreads nothing but hate. It is sickening.
Free the USA, from Palestine
Please do not refer to this entity that is not a state and G-d willing, will never be, not in Eretz Israel.
Free the USA from the absolutely corrupt and criminal top officials that are organizing, financing and instigating the new Arab spring right here! Same people that caused millions of Muslims to be slaughtered throughout the middle east over the last decade or so. They destroyed Iraq Afghanistan Libya Syria …. When Trump came in he defended all the regime change operations and suddenly all got quiet and peaceful. But the bank run stopped. So somehow Biden had to miraculously win 12000000 more votes than popular Obama all while campaigning from his basement! The country has fallen. We are just blissfully… Read more »
We know where he belongs…
Someone murders (a Jew) and the police are so kindly looking into it. And the murderer hasn’t been arrested
Ahh the paid agitators with the newest alibi. What was once George Floyd being used to instigate country wide chaos and violence pre 2020 election. Is now Hamas/Israel excuse being used to organize chaos pre 2024 election. Watch the fervor and pace ramp up as we get closer to November. All brought to you by the same culprits. Amazing how it got completely quiet post election. Isn’t it? Try not to get manipulated into engaging with these professionally paid agitators. Same antifa, same BLM, same climate activists, same peta ppl that went after sholom rubashkin, same players as in the… Read more »
Yes. This was murder. And the murderer should be brought to justice. But let’s also acknowledge the woman there (who was protesting against Israel) who on the scene tried helping the Jewish guy who was murdered (confirmed by eye witnesses)… This thumbnail also seems a bit misleading, makes it look like it was that woman…
She is on video smiling and laughing while the Yid is being moved to the ambulance!!!! It’s online to see
Absolutely sickening if true.
Time for war and total extermination of the enemy right in front of you. Kill now or they will
And EVERYONE who participated in that hate filled demonstration against Israel is responsible. If you support evil you are evil.
This will give carte blanche to all the animals out there.
HYD!!!
Has this become the new America, G-D forbid?
What has become of human decency and respect for others even if u disagree !
The problem begins with the home.
People having kids that they didn’t want in the first place.
This is what develops.
the more the state of israel pushes this false narrative that it is the jewish state and represents all the jewish people, the more anti semitism there will be. moshiach now. וכל הרשעה כולה כעשן תכלה כי תעביר ממשלת זדון מן הארץ.
How did you confuse this site with some Naturei Karta newsletter?
The woman in the picture is trying to give aid. She is despicable for her views. But in that moment she is clearly trying to assist. The picture paired with this article is giving the wrong message.
She is on video and laughing as the Yid is being moved to the ambulance! It’s online to see
Personally, I think the Arab woman was more overcome by plain old curiosity than by the desire to be helpful. If she actually was trying to help the unfortunate Jewish man HY”D she is certainly hanging out with the wrong crowd. All these pro Palestinian protests are intent on transmitting the same message; namely, that the Jews had the unspeakable horrors coming to them because they “mistreat” the Arabs, Uh huh, the same Arabs who, on a daily basis shoot rockets into civilian areas in Israel and forcefully demonstrate that they have no intention of abiding by a live and… Read more »
They are the cause of all problems
Please let us not refer to this fictional state that G-d willing, will never be formed in Eretz Israel.
What a sick national movement. Built on nothing other than hate, and it reveals its character everywhere. In Judea and Samaria, in Gaza, in Europe, in the US. A putrid cause, whose aims are as bloody as the red in their disgusting flag.
how come the Jewish community of LA dosent shut every business and have a 2 hour rally with every Yid in LA present in front of the police station or city hall we want an arrest this Palestinian thing that was Kavyochel lending support knows who the horrific thing with the bullhorn is “say the things nam” and have him put in jail for life.
I live just a few miles from this incident. How did I hear about? From my son in the IDF.
There seems to be a coverup with no arrests.
We are pressuring the Ventura police to find him and prosecute. I am not running away or hiding. No more Holocausts.
We will make our presence as Jews known, loud and clear. Everyone we know is armed. Legally. Never again. Moshiach now !
I don’t understand. Mr Kessler was attacked by these savages, the autopsy ruled Mr Kessler’s death a homicide, with the cause being blunt head trauma, and this is not considered a hate crime ?? Regarding the comments of the two people who were seen close by, where is the attacker, why did nobody stop this individual or hold yhis person till the police could make an arrest ?? it’s pretty obvious to me that Mr Kessler was killed because he was Jewish, by an angry mob of ignorant and arrogant individuals who are fueled by hate and rage. I mean,… Read more »
Wrong skin color, wrong gender, wrong ethnicity. So, per the “intersectional left” – which is to say, much of government nowadays – it can’t be a hate crime.