Luna Hernandez
Overview
Luna Hernandez called to overthrow America as a member of the Antifa group Revolution Club L.A. (RevClubLA) and helped lead the violent disruption of a pro-Israel event at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), alongside activists from Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UCLA.Hernandez was also a national student organizer with Refuse Fascism Los Angeles (RefuseFascismLA).
On August 22, 2018, Hernandez’s Twitter bio said she was a UCLA alumnus, where she reportedly majored in English. In June 2017, Hernandez posted to Twitter photos of herself in a graduation cap and gown.
Calling to Overthrow America
On June 30, 2018, Hernandez tweeted a short video of a RevClub demonstration, commenting: “Out here at #FamiliesBelongTogether w/ @revclub_la letting ppl know that the Democrats are NOT the answer. & indicting this country and whole damn system for what it has done and what it's doing now to the ppl of theIn the video, RevClubLA members held up [00:00:03] a sign reading: “This system cannot be reformed, it must be overthrown.”
The demonstration’s leader declared [00:00:46] “we are the Revolution Club, we are the ultimate authority, we want to stay in power, we are going up for that when the time comes. We are trying to organize people to be in our millions, millions of people, to see this whole system is illegitimate!”
On July 1, 2018, Hernandez tweeted another video of the demonstration, where the speaker called [00:00:21] to “get organized to actually overthrow this system,” and declared [00:01:35] “this is America, this is the system of capitalism and imperialism, it cannot be reformed, it must be overthrown. Hernandez commented: “#AmericaWasNeverGreat #ThisAmerica #RevolutionNothingLess.”
On October 19, 2018, Hernandez tweeted: “Got interviewed today by @hectorconhambre editor n chief of @TheBreezePaper about @revclub_la the current situation & the new film of a speech by Bob Avakian that was relased online TODAY! WHY WE NEED ACTUAL REVOLUTION & HOW WE CAN REALLY MAKE REVOLUTION: https://youtu.be/XoG_bMqG0Eg.”
SJP at UCLA - Violent Disruption of Pro-Israel Campus Event
On May 17, 2018, Hernandez [00:41:31 and00:43:31], SJP at UCLA activists and affiliates disrupted [00:00:47] an event hosted by Students Supporting Israel (SSI) on the UCLA campus. The event, titled "Indigenous People Unite," provided a forum for Jewish, Kurdish, and Armenian indigenous communities “to share the stories of their people.”The disruptors were joined by activists with SJP at UCLA Alumni Association(SJP at UCLA Alumni),as well as activists from the group Southwest Asian and North Afrikan Los Angeles (SWANA LA) and activists from the off-campus Antifa group Revolution Club L.A./ Refuse Fascism Los Angeles.
At the time she led the disruption, Hernandez was banned from the UCLA campus following her arrest by UCLA campus police two weeks prior, for disrupting a talk given by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Steve Mnuchin.
Approximately 41 minutes into the May 17th SSI-hosted event, SJP at UCLA members and Antifa activists invaded [00:41:16] the forum. Protester Arman Adamian marched toward the speakers and tore [00:41:19] the Armenian flag off the wall. Adamian also grabbed [00:41:24] the Armenian panelist’s notes off the speakers’ table and leaned aggressively over the seated panelist.
Other protesters chanted [00:43:01]“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!” as well as [00:42:29] “We don’t want two states, we want ‘48!” and [00:45:08] “1,2,3,4 Open up the prison doors; 5,6,7,8 Israel is a terrorist state!!”
The Israeli flag was also ripped from the wall and protestor Natalie Kamajian, when asked to relinquish the flag, refused [00:46:52] to do so.
Campus security eventually escorted [00:50:05] the protesters out of the classroom where the event was held, into an adjacent hallway. There, the protesters pounded [00:521:2348] on the door to the classroom and continued [00:08:32] chanting.
Later, when the door was reopened, the protesters continued their disturbance, screaming [00:33:15] obscenities, using [00:14:27] a megaphone and physically blocking [00:13:52] the door from being closed.
SWANA-LA coordinator, Pouneh Behin, used a megaphone to call [00:14:39] out the names of Palestinian rioters killed several days earlier in Gaza, while participating in the Hamas-organized, violent “March of Return.”
After Behin finished, Hernandez announced [00:24:04]: “My sister over here, she just called out the names of the 58 people who were massacred the other day - two days ago by the Israeli army.” Hernandez also accused [00:24:42] UCLA of “openly” supporting “the genocide of Palestinian people.”
On March 30, 2018, some 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza approached Israel’s border to take part in “Land Day Protests” or the “March of Return.” The March of Return was organized and funded by Hamas as a campaign of violent protests along Israel’s border to spotlight the demand of Palestinians to “return” to Israel.
The “right of return” is a Palestinian demand discredited as a means to eliminate Israel.
Media reports confirmed [00:00:20] the March of Return protesters’ breaches and attempted breaches of Israel’s border fence, some by armed Palestinians. One Hamas leader declared [00:00:30]: “We will take down the border [with Israel] and we will tear out their hearts from their bodies.”
On May 16, 2018, a Hamas senior official stated that 50 out of 62 protesters killed during the May 14 Gaza border protest were Hamas operatives.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also claimed that three of its members were killed at the same protest.
Following the disruption, students attending the SSI event reported feeling intimidated and fearing for their physical safety. SSI chapter president Hirmand Sarafian, the Armenian panelist, reported that he felt physically threatened “throughout the whole thing, from the beginning to the end.”
Following the disruption, students attending the SSI event reported feeling intimidated and fearing for their physical safety. SSI chapter president Hirmand Sarafian, the Armenian panelist, reported that he felt physically threatened “throughout the whole thing, from the beginning to the end.”
SJP at UCLA reportedly denied initiating or having “a significant hand in organizing the demonstration” and claimed that “none of our board members attended the event.”
However, SJP at UCLA’s 2018 primary signatory Robert Gardner was filmed taking a leadership role in the disruption, alongside SJP at UCLA signatory Gurutam Thockchom, as well as fellow SJP at UCLA activists Burkan Aranki, Sarena Khasawneh, John Abughattas, and Tamara Khoury.
On May 18, 2018, both SWANA-LA and the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) in Austin specifically praised SJP at UCLA and SJP at UCLA Alumni’s role in disrupting the SSI event.
On May 24, 2018, UCLA chancellors Jerry Kang and Monroe Gorden published anofficial denunciation of the incident in the Daily Bruin, UCLA’s campus newspaper.
The chancellors’ statement condemned the intimidation of panelists and audience members and declared that the university would “refer all evidence of wrongdoing” of non-UCLA students “to local prosecutors to determine whether they have broken the law.”
A June 14, 2018 article, published by the Jewish Journal, reported that half a dozen students said they would file formal complaints against the disruptors for “criminal disruption of a meeting, as well as disturbing the peace and conspiracy.”
An August 8, 2018 article in the Algemeiner reported that the Los Angeles city prosecutor was investigating the disruption, and had “requested additional investigative materials from the UCLA Police.”
Demonizing Israel
On May 15, 2018, Hernandez promoted on Twitter a joint Revolution Club L.A and SJP at UCLA co-hosted protest, defending the May 2018 violent riots in Gaza.Hernandez commented: “TOMORROW! EMERGENCY PROTEST. NOON. UCLA @ the Bear. U.S./Israeli Massacre Kills 60 Palestinians and Wounds Over 2,700. Everyone Must Stand Up and Protest Against These Crimes Against Humanity! @SJPatUCLA
@RefuseFascismLA @BlackBruins @mechadeucla @UCLAMSA.”
The poster advertising the event read: “STOP! US and Israeli Murder and Rampage in the Middle East!”
In May 2018, thousands of rioters attempted numerous breaches of Israel’s border fence, with participants declaring their intention to harm Jews across the border under the pretext of “peaceful resistance.”
SJP
SJP is a student organization engaged in anti-Israel activity on North American college and university campuses.
The first chapter of SJP was founded in 2001 at the University of California at Berkeley by Professor Hatem Bazian. Bazian has spread classic anti-Semitism, reportedly promoted religious anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror group. In 2004, Bazian called for “intifada” in America.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campaigns, including running annual Israel Apartheid Weeks, often in collaboration with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Muslim Students Association (MSA) campus chapters.
SJP has been a major force in pushing the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement on campuses. Chapters have initiated dozens of BDS resolutions in student governments, which have been proposed on or around Jewish holidays, a time when many Jewish students are off-campus.
SJP activists have reportedly physically assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish students, disrupted pro-Israel campus events and demonized pro-Israel campus organizations.
Chapters have often endorsed and campaigned for numerous terrorists and whitewashed terrorism.
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- 05/04/2026
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