Alders Don't Adopt Ceasefire Resolution
| May 6, 2024 8:04 pm |The Board of Alders voted not to adopt a proposed resolution supporting a ceasefire in Gaza on Monday evening, prompting backlash from over a hundred protesters.
The Board of Alders voted not to adopt a proposed resolution supporting a ceasefire in Gaza on Monday evening, prompting backlash from over a hundred protesters.
(Updated 8:12 a.m., Tuesday, April 30, with university comment) Yale and city police cleared another pro-Palestinian tent encampment from the university’s downtown campus early Tuesday morning — but this time, there were no arrests.
More than 1,500 pro-Palestinian protesters from across the state on Sunday marched downtown in the latest mass public demonstration of outrage with Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza.
Continue reading ‘Pro-Palestinian Protest Fills Downtown Streets’
There were no flags at Friday afternoon’s “humanity vigil” on Yale’s downtown campus.
There were only people — from New Haven and Jerusalem and Haifa and beyond — eager for a place to talk about peace in a time of death and discord.
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| Apr 24, 2024 8:34 am |“Twenty years of women’s hopes and dreams collapsed in one day.”
That’s how New Havener and Afghan refugee Hossna Samadi described the 2021 fall of Kabul.
She wasn’t in her home country at the time, having left Afghanistan with her family five years earlier. But the shock of seeing the Taliban return to power reverberated thousands of miles away — and sticks with Samadi as she gets to know her New Haven neighbors and explains what it’s like to be Afghan today.
(Updated at 5:59 p.m.) The streets around Yale’s downtown campus are back open now that pro-Palestinian protesters who had blocked traffic at the intersection of Grove, Prospect, and College for more than eight hours reached a deal with police to leave — without anyone else getting arrested.
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(Updated) Twelve Yale graduate students have begun their hunger strike in an effort to pressure the university to divest from weapons manufacturers involved in Israel’s war in Gaza.
(Updated) Transit police said they arrested nine protesters at Union Station during a demonstration against U.S. support for military aid to Israel.
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| Mar 7, 2024 11:57 am |UNITE HERE, the parent of Yale’s politically powerful union locals, issued a statement Thursdsay calling on all hostages to be released and all fighting to stop in Gaza.
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New Haveners with strong feelings about the war in Gaza will get the chance to weigh in at a virtual public hearing about a proposed ceasefire resolution.
A symbolic empty seat was left at a New Haven gathering last year for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny — and he’ll continue to be remembered here now that he has died in custody.
A mayor’s vision of a booming city clashed with protesters’ vision of a world on fire — as pro-Palestinian activists held up the annual “State of the City” address in City Hall for half an hour on Monday night.
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It didn’t “concern” Mayor Justin Elicker that protesters shouted down his annual “State of the City” address Monday night, he said.
“I am a little bit concerned about the dialogue,” he said. “I don’t think it was the most productive way to have a conversation. I also understand the frustration.”
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‘Elicker: Ceasefire Resolution
"Simplifies A Complex Issue"’
Gov. Ned Lamont was beginning to tout Connecticut’s economy to a banquet hall of New Haven business leaders Wednesday morning when a dozen protesters swept into the room to protest the war in Gaza.
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| Dec 12, 2023 3:32 pm |New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, issued a pitch to un-stall renewed U.S. military aid to Ukraine after participating in a Capitol Hill meeting Tuesday with visiting Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy. She released the following statement:
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Elected officials and faith leaders gathered at the spot where a protester climbed a public menorah and planted a Palestinian flag — and warned that such acts, if not called out, can escalate into violent antisemitic action.
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About 300 people marched in the streets and rallied on the Green on Saturday in the latest local effort to get elected officials to support Palestinians and a ceasefire amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
During the event, one protester climbed the menorah on the Green and lodged a Palestinian flag between the candle holders — prompting criticism from fellow protesters, and a planned press conference by elected leaders and the Jewish Federation on Monday morning to denounce the act as antisemitic.
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As close to a thousand people gathered for New Haven’s annual tree-lighting celebration on the Green, hundreds protested mere feet away in support of Gaza and Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem, where there will be no Christmas celebrations due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.
Continue reading ‘Tree Lighting Brings Out Ceasefire Protesters, Holiday Revelers’
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| Nov 17, 2023 12:35 pm |What I didn’t do:
I didn’t fly to Nashville on Avelo. I didn’t rent a Ferrari for the day. I didn’t strip naked at Lighthouse Point and attempt to swim to Long Island.
Instead, I embarked on an adventure of a different sort, one of the mind, testing reason, emotion, and heritage.
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| Nov 16, 2023 5:18 pm |The 5,591 miles separating New Haven and Tel Aviv got a lot farther since Oct. 7 for Tzippy Shmilovitz.
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| Nov 13, 2023 5:14 pm |Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS) has selected Maggie Mitchell Salem to serve as its new executive director, nearly six months after Chris George announced that he was retiring after 18 years of leading the local nonprofit and making New Haven a national leader in refugee resettlement.
Ben Ori, 31.
Aisha Khalil Hamdan, 72.
Wahba Abdullah Hussein, 65.
Ibrahim Hamid Hussein, 62.
Muhammad Suleiman Turki, 61.
Nadia Yassin Hussein, 60.
Salwa Muhammad Khalil, 60.
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| Nov 1, 2023 3:31 pm |Andrea Weinstein’s sister Judih is a person of peace. She’s vegan and loves teaching English and making puppets for the children on the southern Israel kibbutz where she has lived with her husband Gad Haggai, a musician and chef. She cherishes the collectivist living the kibbutz afforded her family, writes haikus to calm herself and others, and is critical of the right-wing Netanyahu government.
That life collapsed on Oct. 7, when Judih and Gad were two of hundreds of Israelis either kidnapped or gone missing in a cross-border terrorist attack waged by Hamas.
Andrea showed up in downtown New Haven Wednesday calling attention to her sister’s and brother-in-law’s plight as she desperately seeks information.
Continue reading ‘Hostage Crisis Touches New Haven At Broadway Memorial’
With microphone in hand, Nour Ebid transported a crowd of 100 mourning Yalies to a hospital floor in Gaza where a 9‑year-old Palestianian boy saw his injured leg amputated in “a nonsterile field, without anesthesia, without appropriate sedation.”
The Yale New Haven Hospital physician associate then moved the crowd to a medical setting much closer to home, where “every single surgical procedure requires utmost care and absolute sterility.”
“We swear a sacred oath to do no harm,” Ebid said about her work as a local healthcare professional. “And it is our duty to call on this university and demand a ceasefire now.”
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| Oct 30, 2023 9:38 am |Roughly 130 people from around the world tuned in to a virtual movie screening to get an on-the-ground view of the human suffering caused by bombs dropped on Gaza, past and present — and to vent their frustrations and fears of still more bloodshed to come amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.