California Anti-Israel Protester Only Gets One-Year Sentence in Death of Elderly Man
“In light of the potential consequences entering a trial and what could happen, we decided that the best course of action is to accept a probation offer and plead guilty today,”
Following the October 7th attacks in Israel in 2023, an elderly man in California was killed when an anti-Israel protester hit him in the head with a megaphone. The victim fell to the ground and hit his head. It’s a horrible story from every angle.
The protester who was charged with the man’s death was just allowed to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter in exchange for a ridiculous plea deal that includes a sentence of one year in prison followed by probation.
This is a video from the scene of the crime:
Content warning ⚠️ – an elderly Jewish man has been killed by a pro Palestinian protestor who hit him over the head with a megaphone at yesterday’s Israel rally.
Sadly, the victim has passed away from internal bleeding.
May his memory be a blessing and his attacker be… pic.twitter.com/41ZXNutwvK
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) November 7, 2023
From the Ventura County Star, via Yahoo News:
Moorpark man changes plea in case of protester’s death
Two years after a pro-Palestine rally in Thousand Oaks made international headlines with the death of a counter-protester, the man accused in the death has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and battery with serious bodily injury.
Paul Kessler, a 69-year-old Thousand Oaks resident and pro-Israel protester, died less than a day after he was injured in a Nov. 5, 2023 confrontation with Loay Alnaji, a 54-year-old Moorpark resident.
Alnaji had joined other pro-Palestinian protesters at the corner of Thousand Oaks and Westlake boulevards, which had become a regular site for rallies in the weeks after Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel and Israel’s deadly response.
Alnaji initially pleaded not guilty to the two charges, and his jury trial was scheduled for May 14.
On May 5, however, Ventura County Superior Court Judge Derek Malan offered the defendant probation if he changed his plea. Alnaji now faces a maximum sentence of one year in jail followed by three years on probation.
Defense attorney Ron Bamieh said the offer came after several meetings with Malan and recalled that the judge determined “two old guys had a dispute and and an accident happened.”
“In light of the potential consequences entering a trial and what could happen, we decided that the best course of action is to accept a probation offer and plead guilty today,” Bamieh told The Star outside of the courtroom.
Senior Deputy District Attorney David Russell said both the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office and Kessler’s family opposed the judge’s offer and instead requested the maximum possible sentence of four years in state prison.
“This is over the people’s objection,” Russell told Malan.
Bamieh said that during the protest, Kessler aggressively put his cell phone in Alnaji’s face and when Alnaji swatted the phone away, he unintentionally hit Kessler’s face with a megaphone. Bamieh said Kessler had a brain tumor, which exacerbated the injuries when he fell.
Jennifer Van Laar of RedState adds this:
Loay Alnaji has pled guilty to 1 count of involuntary manslaughter, 1 felony count of battery causing serious bodily injury in the death of Paul Kessler, w/serious felony enhancement and aggravating factors of weapons use and vulnerable victim for both counts.
Alnaji, a Muslim community college professor in Ventura County, CA, killed Kessler, a Jewish man, during protests/counterprotests immediately following Hamas’ October 7 attacks.
Alnaji, a naturalized citizen from Jordan, was set to go to trial on May 14, but appeared this morning in Ventura County Superior Court to plead guilty to all charges.
🚨DEVELOPING: Loay Alnaji has pled guilty to 1 count of involuntary manslaughter, 1 felony count of battery causing serious bodily injury in the death of Paul Kessler, w/serious felony enhancement and aggravating factors of weapons use and vulnerable victim for both counts.… pic.twitter.com/yjiXgntUYj
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) May 5, 2026
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Show him a warm welcome when he returns to the community.
“Muslim Gets One Year Sentence for Slaughtering a Jew”
He is a Muslim professor who killed a Jew. Aside from the ridiculous sentence, you can expect that he will be paroled not long after he is processed into the correctional system, if not before.
Subotai Bahadur
hey
b. 0mbb a city and get a mayor
your new america is here
hey didnt the pharaohs pronounce that all jewish male babies would be slaughtered?
looks like nothing has changed except its open season on allll j ews as the blmplo armies continue their march as colonizers
Only babies. And it was to be done secretly.
This will only make these Antifa thugs, these leftists influencers, and the Democrats in general even more violent since there’s no real consequences for killing you. Imagine the decision making process now. An Antifa thug will think he can kill you and only get a year in prison. Totally worth it. Buckle up. It’s going to get worse. Much worse.
yeah people are pretending it wont
but it is and will
and the injustice system has proven that they will lead the charge against making america great by letting the losers who collectively have not created any society worthy of copy,, take us over
fjb x100000000000000000000
so the victim had balance issues due to a brain tumor
while the suspect had mental imbalances due to an islamtumor
As far as I know the brain tumor is merely asserted by the defense. I haven’t read anywhere that it was confirmed by the prosecution or the family.
I hope a civil suit follows.
he’s moving all his assets to his motherland
California, state of mental illness and anti Israel thugs.
I fear that wrist slaps like this might lead to members of the public deciding to take the law into their own hands.
Of course, if Jews do decide to fight back, they will not get such lenient punishments.
This ultimately becomes the more powerful form of deterrence when fear of the legal system disappears. While everyone claims distaste of vigilante justice, many still believe that at least it is justice.
since the courts do not want to hand out appropriate punishment, this form of deterrence will become the only available justice meted out.
Civil courts in California, to be kind about it, are as big a joke as the criminal courts.
“Of course, if Jews do decide to fight back, they will not get such lenient punishments.”
They need to get caught first. Bodies can be made to disappear.
Anybody know Analji’s immigration status?
If he’s a LAPR, the conviction qualifies for deportation.
He’s a US citizen.
If you did not think the ideological takeover of colleges and law schools as well as stem fields was an emergency this outrage should wake you up.
Judge who approved this travesty?
:Law school graduate
DA who approved this heinous murder?
Law school graduate
Prosecutors who came up with the brilliant idea of we give you a joke sentence in return for nothing?
Again law school graduates.
Don’t be fooled by people like Alan Dershowitz having titles like “Professor” if you listen closely it is “Professor Emeritus” (as in retired). Law Schools are ideologically captured and this outrage is the first fruit of it.
I believe the prosecuting attorney was prepared to go to trial and the judge offered the plea, not the DA. The DA was opposed to the plea.
As we have seen in Minnesota and elsewhere it is the judges that are the issue.
Disgusting
Hope Trumps AG is looking into this
Now you know what your life is worth.
It’s time to leave.
What is 1 Jew’s life worth in CA? Well now we know. At the most 1 year in jail and probably not even that.
I wonder if I walked up to this guy on the street and bludgeoned him to death what my sentence would be? I suspect CA would either bring back the death penalty just to execute me or allow me to be extradited to the muslim’s home country (yes I know extradition is federal not state).
Who am I kidding. if I bludgeoned this muslim I’d be held without bail and likely shanked in jail.
That seems incredibly weak. Not sure about CA but in Alabama we have specific statutes to ‘protect’ the elderly, women and children. There’s a legal presumption that they are more ‘vulnerable’ than adult men. This would seem to fit (at minimum) our 2nd degree felony for ‘elder abuse’ intentionally/recklessly harm elder causing serious injury sentence is 2 to 20 years. If they brought 1st degree charges he’d face 10 years to life.
He got a deal. That’s the way the two-tiered justice system works. For people on the “right” side, even a conviction isn’t the same as it is for the other side.
It’s not even so much “on the right side” as “requiring work from prosecutors if he doesn’t accept.” I think most plea deals are more laziness/avoiding overwork then they are ideological.
I suspect in this instance Ideology was involved.
Since this deal was not the prosecutor’s idea and was made over his objections, I don’t think the work it would require from him was a factor.
maybe maybe not a real appropriate sentencing in Alabama
this whole notion of…well ( the victim) had medical issues so the suspect really didnt cause the death/injuries…is alive and well in any court/court system that has wokeness as its bible
Time for civil court. It is the only lawful means of justice left to the victim’s next of kin.
Well, surprise, not really. All this is going to do is encourage more of the same behavior. No surprise in California where they don’t believe in enforcing the law.
“Two old guys get into a fight…” There is a hate factor in this… and of course..if the roles were reversed… imagine the sentencing.
Justice always prevails. If the people’s government fails in applying the laws equally and fairly, then the people will administer justice. Once that starts, it’s a downhill slide to anarchy.
This “downhill slide to anarchy” is what I fear. If the Jewish community does not believe that the society will offer justice, then Irv Rubin will again rise up and seek justice privately.
I never believed that Rubin committed suicide. Mind you the one time I met him he seemed to be drunk or high, not rational, but the reported cause of death just didn’t make sense to me.
By a very conservative estimate, a hundred million people have died at the hands of their own governments in this [20th] century. Given that record, how bad could anarchy be?
–JOSEPH SOBRAN
Culture Marxists are taking over the courts. It will only encourage more Muslims to kill whomever they want.
I am curious about others who have been sentenced for the same crime in Ventura County.
Was this perp’s sentence within the normal range?
Was it outrageously short when compared to others?
Here (according to Brave AI) is the sentencing for involuntary manslaughter:
That “alternatively” in there is a real kicker.
If I were ‘king’ we’d resolve the issues of repeat offenders by setting not just mandatory minimum but requiring the remainder of max sentence range that wasn’t imposed be ‘suspended’ and served as probation. Example get a conviction for a crime with a 2 to 20 year range with a sentence of 5 years incarceration. Dude gonna do five that years and then serve probation for the remaining 15 of the potential 20 years but as a ‘suspended’ sentence which in effect would mean any parole violation sends him immediately back to prison for 15 years plus any additional time for whatever new crime he committed.
You would need to require it be served. Otherwise the judge on the re-offend case will just wave away the parole violation.
Why did you post a law dealing with voluntary manslaughter when the charge was involuntary manslaughter?
shitria law at work here
But does he have tenure? Maybe now he’ll be made a full professor and go on a speaking tour as an oppressed hero of the resistance.
I believe this article is mistitled. Alnaji has not gotten a 1 year sentence, rather he avoided 4 years in state prison for his crimes by offering a plea deal, and while he does risk the possibility of up to 1 year in jail, it’s entirely possible he’ll skate with probation being the only real ‘punishment’.
Some are asking what the judge’s response would’ve been had it been a Jewish man who accidentally killed a Muslim.
I believe the final sentencing is in late June no?
As I understand it this has not happened yet. He suddenly changed his plea to guilty, and his lawyer said the judge had offered the deal, while the prosecutor said he was blindsided by it and did not agree. That doesn’t seem lawful to me, so I suspect there’s more going on than was reported. In any case the sentencing hasn’t happened yet, and the news reports seem to be based just on what the defense lawyer claims.
I’d say the DOJ needs to investigate this murderer quite closely as to the naturalization and if he made any mistakes remove his naturalization and deport him.
How does a judge negotiate a plea deal with a defendant? The people, via the prosecutor, have an interest here. I don’t think that is legal, even in California.
Yeah, I don’t get it either. It makes no sense. Something else must be going on here that hasn’t been reported.
Why won’t newscum condemn violence against the jewish community?
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