THUGS FOR PEACE: Pretty lame:

An anti-war march against the U.S. policy on Iraq by about 500 Canoga Park High School students turned ugly Wednesday when some in the crowd started looting a gas station convenience store and disrupting traffic. . . .

Store owner Masood Behroozi said his clerk saw several students knocking over racks, breaking glasses and swiping snack foods. The whole incident was recorded on a surveillance tape that was turned over to police, he said. “They were just joking and laughing and doing this for fun.”

Protesting for imaginary Arabs, while robbing real ones. Yep. (Later: Or maybe not — Behroozi appears to be an Iranian name.)

UPDATE: Arabs, Jews — these “peace” demonstrators will rough up anyone who gets in their way:

A protest at York University over a possible war in Iraq ended in violence yesterday when opposing groups crossed paths.

Miriam Levin, a Jewish student, said she was intimidated and roughed up by the protesters. And a group that had a U.S. flag at its booth said members were attacked by demonstrators who marched through the university. . . .

She said she could not understand why the man was shouting anti-Semitic remarks at her until her friend, Hannah Wortsman, observed she was wearing earrings with a Star of David design. . . .

Levin pulled out her camera to take photographs of the scene and the group tried to take it away from her, she said, adding a security guard did nothing when she and Wortsman called for help. “I asked why he didn’t do anything and he said, ‘Well you shouldn’t have been there,’ ” Levin said.

Antisemitic violence. Authorities who refuse to intervene. And in Canada! Sadly, this almost isn’t news anymore.