Elderly Jewish Man Killed at Pro-Palestine Protest in California

Sign at a makeshift memorial at the site of an altercation in which 69-year-old Paul Kessler was killed by a pro-Palestinian protestor on November 7, 2023 in Thousand Oaks, California - Mario Tama/Getty Images

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Elderly Jewish Man Killed at Pro-Palestine Protest in California

Article Source: The Jewish News Syndicate Extremism Roundup 2023-11-09

Sign at a makeshift memorial at the site of an altercation in which 69-year-old Paul Kessler was killed by a pro-Palestinian protestor on November 7, 2023 in Thousand Oaks, California - Mario Tama/Getty Images

Paul Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish man, died from injuries sustained in “an altercation” on Monday in the greater Los Angeles area.
According to the sheriff’s office, the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to be blunt force head injury and the manner of death homicide.