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By adamg - 9/12/24 - 9:25 pm
Newton police and EMTs responded to Washington and Harvard streets in Newtonville after a man was shot in the abdomen at a rally calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas, possibly by a participant he ran across the street to tackle around 6:45 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 8/6/24 - 12:55 pm
A federal judge today refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Harvard by a group of Jewish students that the school allowed the campus to become a hotbed of antisemitism where Jewish students came under attack by pro-Palestinian demonstrators from Harvard Yard to a Harvard Law School lounge. Read more.
By adamg - 8/6/24 - 11:56 am
MIT might have handled anti-Zionist protests on campus differently, but nothing the school did was designed to torment its Jewish students and professors - and in fact, the school took steps, if possibly not enough, to minimize hateful acts and rants against them - a federal judge ruled last week in dismissing a lawsuit by students and a pro-Israel group from California alleging MIT had helped turn itself into an antisemitic cauldron. Read more.
By adamg - 5/10/24 - 8:47 am
The Tech reports MIT and Cambridge police and state troopers moved in shortly after 4 a.m., forcing out both protesters and reporters.
By adamg - 5/1/24 - 10:46 pm
Rob Leikind, New England director of the American Jewish Committee, is not having the City Council's resolution on Gaza: Read more.
By adamg - 5/1/24 - 2:09 pm
The City Council voted 11-2 today for a resolution, sponsored by Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson (Roxbury) calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of humanitarian aid for the region, the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas and the reconstruction of Gaza. Read more.
By adamg - 4/11/24 - 11:33 am
Councilor Fernandes Anderson decrying death and destruction in Gaza.
The City Council yesterday formally recognized Eid Al-Fitr, the end of the Muslim sacred month of Ramadan - after Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson (Roxbury), who is Muslim, gave an impassioned plea on behalf of the people of Gaza. Read more.
By adamg - 4/5/24 - 3:33 pm
Select Board Chairman Bernard Greene says the MBTA quickly responded to a town request to erase the "Zionist Pigs" and peace symbol somebody sprayed on at least one signboard at the Longwood Green Line stop yesterday.
Greene adds: Read more.
By adamg - 3/30/24 - 11:39 pm
A UHub correspondent reports he was on the outbound Red Line platform at Charles/MGH around 6:15 p.m: Read more.
By adamg - 3/7/24 - 9:22 am
Protesters calling for a Gaza ceasefire blocked Atlantic Avenue in front of South Station around 8:30 a.m. Not long after, Boston Police began arresting the protesters.
By adamg - 2/14/24 - 2:56 pm
Councilor Ben Weber (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury) today withdrew his proposed resolution calling for a negotiated Gaza ceasefire to let him rewrite it so that it doesn't cause "more division" rather than lessen it. Read more.
By adamg - 12/7/23 - 1:41 pm
Flynn before realizing why Mohamed (l) and Blackmon were getting the congratulations he'd signed.
The Boston City Council yesterday officially congratulated two New Mission High School students for their activism without realizing that that involved organizing a walkout at the Hyde Park school last week to call for an end to Israeli warfare in Gaza and freedom for Palestine. Read more.
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