Pro-Palestinian professor charged in death of Jewish demonstrator pleads guilty

New York Post ^ | May 6, 2026 | Katie Jerkovich

[nickcarraway]

A pro-Palestinian professor charged with killing a 69-year-old Jewish dad during an anti-Israel protest in southern California in 2023 will not stand trial after he plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

The 54-year-old Moorpark resident Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji pleaded guilty to felony involuntary manslaughter and felony battery causing serious bodily injury related to the death of Paul Kessler, the Ventura County District Attorney’s office said in a press release on Tuesday.

Alnaji-who teaches computer science at Moorpark College-and Kessler were both protesting the Israel-Hamas war during dueling pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrations in Thousand Oaks in 2023 when Alnaji struck the Jewish demonstrator in the head with a megaphone.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Jew hatred. It's an Islamic thing, though others have adopted it as well. Tom Lehrer’s lyrics come to mind.

[nickcarraway]

It’s a Progressive thing.

[Wayne07]

"Because Alnaji was not convicted he will likely get formal probation with up to a year behind bars"

MIGHT get up to ONE year for murder.

[hanamizu]

It’s a Progressive thing.

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It’s a thing because living memory of the Holocaust is rapidly fading away and thus can be denied or excused. One reason why I showed my 8th-grade students the PBS film ‘Memory of the Camps’ which was originally created in the 40s to stop this kind of thing from happening. PBS showed in 1985, I wonder if they’d dare show it now.

[dangus]

He struck a guy with a weapon resulting in that person dying precisely and only because of that. He gets off with parole.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Unfortunately, a good part of our socialized LGBT Islam inclusive youth (liberal and conservative) believe the Holocaust was a western fabrication. Killing Jews is ok now because it never happened before. We really are in trouble as a society