Pro-Palestinian activists waved the flag of a terrorist organization and praised violent action in a Friday protest against the Israeli Vertigo Dance Company at the Boston Boch Center Shubert Theatre.
The red flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the US State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism, can be seen waved prominently by marchers in videos posted on social media by Palestinian Youth Movement Boston, Party for Socialism & Liberation Boston and the Boston Coalition for Palestine.
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One marcher waving the flag wore a keffiyeh with a matching PFLP headband. Later during the protest, a woman draped in a Palestinian flag can be seen carrying the flag.
“Glory to the martyrs and glory to the Palestinian resistance,” said one protest speaker.
As part of a chant, demonstrators called out “Long live the Intifada.”
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Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, also known as BDS. (credit: Wikimedia Commons)
“Long live the Intifada”
“Reject all forms of normalization wherever you see it. Glory to all our martyrs. Glory to the Resistance!” said promotional images for the protest, which were posted by PYM, PSL, BCP, Students for Justice in Palestine Emerson, Boston South Asian Coalition, BDS Boston, and Students for Justice in Palestine Suffolk University.
In the promotional posts, the red triangle used in terrorist propaganda to denote targeting for an attack is placed above a Vertigo dancer. The red triangle also appears above the name Vertigo.
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“Reject Zionism in all spheres. Zionists out of dance. Zionists out of Palestine,” the advertisement demands with red triangles above the words “Zionism” and “Zionists,” except for the last which was crossed out with a blood smear.
Some of the protest advertisement slides also cross out the face of the dancer with a blood smear, who faces black garbed figures carrying rocks and shields.
The activist groups explained that they organized the Iranian Al Quds Day protest against the troupe in part because “Vertigo Dance Company is based in occupied Al Quds [Jerusalem].” The company is based in the Gerard Behar Center in the western side of Jerusalem. As noted on the advertisement and chanted by activists, “no peace for settlers on stolen land.”
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“On top of dancing on stolen land, they work with the genocidal IOF [sic] and provide ‘rehab’ for soldiers after they commit genocide in Gaza,” claimed the activist groups.
The company operates the Resilience Farm project at the Vertigo Eco-Art Village, offering regular and reserve soldiers who have experienced trauma an isolated location where they can undergo therapeutic sessions, body and mind workshops, Qigong, Feldenkrais, meditation, and other programs.
ALLSTON, MASS. (WHDH) – Boston police are searching for a gunman who opened fire in Allston Thursday and left one person hurt.
Police responded to a radio call for a person shot in the area of Brighton Avenue at approximately 6:46 p.m. When officers arrived, they said they found a male “juvenile” suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim’s age has not been released.
Boston police said the shooter fled the scene and remains at large. No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Boston police.
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A State Police trooper who was allegedly found “slumped over” in his car at around 5 a.m. in the South End with an open container of High Noon vodka has been “relieved of duty.”
Mass State Police confirmed to the Herald Wednesday night that Trooper Donovan Preston, 31, arrested for alleged drunken driving in Boston this past weekend, “has been relieved of duty.” Preston’s base pay is listed as $80,213.
A Boston Police report states that police arrived at Herald Street on Saturday to see Preston “stopped in lane 2 of the road” with his brake lights on. The suspect was slumped over “with his eyes closed,” the report adds.
“The officer observed that the car was on and in drive. The officer observed an open container of alcohol (High Noon) in the cupholder,” according to the report. The BPD officer then knocked on the window “for approximately 10 seconds before the suspect lifted his head up.”
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Once he picked his head up, police said he appeared “confused and he looked around. The suspect’s vehicle began to roll to which the officer announced, ‘Boston Police. Open the Door.’ ”
Preston stopped on the three-lane, outbound road with his black BMW in the middle of two lanes.
A State Police spokesman said in an email: “Trooper Donovan Preston was relieved of duty and will be subject to a department discipline process.” All other comments were directed toward the police report.
That report, provided to the Herald Wednesday night, added that State Police were notified after Preston’s arrest.
The can of High Noon was logged into the evidence book.
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This latest OUI case comes as State Police Sgt. Scott Quigley is being investigated in an alleged drunken driving fatal crash in Woburn in 2023 that killed a disabled passenger in a van.
In the Quigley case, his blood alcohol level reportedly tested at a .114 at the hospital following the crash (the legal limit is .08). That detail came out in a wrongful death suit filed by the victim Angelo Schettino’s family.
‘Unless he’s s###-faced, I’m not worried’: Mass State Police dash cam catches aftermath of deadly cruiser crash [+video]
The smashed van at the Woburn crash scene. (MSP body camera video screengrab)
