Just days before Gov. Roy Cooper signed the Shalom Act into law, three Asheville residents were attacked while attending an event at the West Asheville Public Library on Saturday, June 29th. The three victims reported an altercation followed by assault while they were live-streaming the report on social media.
According to local news reports, the three victims have been identified as Monica Buckley, David Moritz, and Bob Campbell. The event was hosted by “Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair” (ACAB), and the session was entitled “Strategic Lessons from the Palestinian Resistance.” Around 80-100 people attended the event. Buckley was live-streaming the event on social media when another attendee of the event called her out for it.
“They’re Zionists; We’ve been trying to figure out how to deal with them,” the attendee said, according to a report by the Asheville Citizen-Times. Another attendee then grabbed Buckley’s phone out of her hand, sparking the altercation
