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.
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.
A UHub correspondent reports he was on the outbound Red Line platform at Charles/MGH around 6:15 p.m: Read more.
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.
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.
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.
The Jewish Journal reports on Brandeis's decision, which came yesterday, hours before Students for Justice in Palestine was to hold a rally at the school.
Cambridge Police report arresting pro-Palestinian protesters outside the offices of Elbit Systems on Bishop Allen Drive in Central Square this morning. Read more.
Fernandes Anderson cries while talking about murdered children.
Ed. note: Video of the discussions on the two resolutions is at the bottom of the story.
Boston City Council President Ed Flynn sent two proposed resolutions on Israel and Palestine to a committee for further study and hearings.
The council's committee of the whole - basically, the entire council - will now schedule hearings on a resolution by Councilor Michael Flaherty (at large) to support Israel and condemn Hamas and a separate one by Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson (Roxbury) calling for an immediate ceasefire in the region. Read more.
City Councilor Michael Flaherty (at large) tomorrow will ask his fellow councilors to unambiguously support Israel. Read more.
Live Boston reports on the rally in front of the Copley Square library and march through the Back Bay yesterday afternoon.
Hundreds of Boston-area Jews and supporters crowded the area around the Parkman Bandstand to support Israel and denounce Hamas - and Harvard student groups that came out in support of that group. Read more.
Combined Jewish Philanthropies, the Israeli American Council and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston are organizing a rally at the Parkman Bandstand that starts at noon on Monday.
Craig Caplan caught the start of a protest at Park Street this afternoon.
Syrian jets took off from the airfield today for new bombing runs.
The US Supreme Court today rejected an effort by an anti-Palestine group to force the MBTA to run ads saying whatever the hell it wanted to say about Palestinians - by rejecting the group's request for a hearing before the court. Read more.
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