Brookline, Mass – The Tribal Community Alliance, a student organization at Brookline High School that works on raising awareness about indigenous rights, brought friends and supporters together to protest the Columbus Day holiday. Standing on Coolidge Corner with banners that read “Stop Celebrating Genocide” and “Support Indigenous People Day”, the protesters confronted what they say is a wrong account of history.

“I think 99% of what people think of Columbus is wrong,” said Emily McLaughlin, 16, a Brookline High School student. “He did not have great relations with Native Americans and he was definitely not a hero. He shouldn’t be celebrated.”

Emily herself became active in the Tribal Community Alliance when one of her best friends, Alicia Mucha, 16, found out about a year ago that she is part Native American. Alicia was raised as being half white, but in reality her father is black and her mother is African American, Cherokee, and Mohawk. The two friends began asking questions and became very interested in Native American struggles, culture, and history; things that they weren’t taught in school.

“I want for people to realize that where they live is where people were murdered, were raped, where families were torn apart. They don’t see that genocide happened right here. They think that it only happened in other countries,” said Alicia, now one of the lead organizers of Tribal Community Alliance. She said she tries very hard not to get upset during History class and to counteract common misconceptions that her classmates have about indigenous people’s struggles...

Speaking of Genocide by Anitfa:

I heard that this entire thing packed up and left when some started carrying a Palestinian flag and could not be intimidated by the Indy media people there to put it away.

What is the message when the ENTIRE crowd leaves because some one has a sign that says...

"USA" and "Israel" are genocidal projects that must be shut down'

support palestine...by using your brain by anonomous participant:

well...When someone brings a palestinian flag into a highschool in a town where almost 100% of people are Jewish, without taking into account that these are highschool students who probably have never been exposed to the palestinians' side of the story, without contacting the organizers, without trying to have a conversation with the attendees, without any relevant literature... without even so much as a simple explaination of how the struggle in Palestine completely connects with the genocide started by columbus (which it does).. what the hell do you expect!! And then to call them "racists little zionists"... That so called "palestinian rights activist" did more to promote zionism and blind hate for palestinians that anything else. Maybe next time he should think about his tactics, and try talking to people like fellow humans as opposed to being selfish, overly confrontational, and unflinching. Props to the organizers from Brookline high, I hope that said individual's actions does not deter them from learning about the struggles of the palestinian people, which are very similar to the struggles of native americans...

Preeminent psychoanalyst, Dr. Mortimer Ostow, author of the 1996 book, “Myth and Madness: The Psychodynamics of anti-Semitism,” tied anti-Semitism to early childhood experiences such as toilet training.

In the 1980s, Ostow led a group of psychologists in a study that examined the causes of anti-Semitism. Reviewing the case histories of patients, the group found that negative feelings toward Jews could be traced to early childhood..

They suggested that troubles in toilet training or an Oedipal rivalry, in which a son’s negative feelings toward his father could be projected onto Jews, could be the cause.

With David Rolde being an offspring of two psychiatrists with Harvard and McGill pedigrees (specializing in child psychology, to boot), he is a walking malpractice case for his parents medical practices in Weston, MA, a wealthy Boston suburb. With mommy and daddy's mansion and them picking up his bills, his sole occupation seems to run around Boston to look for any Jewish events. Note that both his kefyah (the blankie?) and the Palestinian flag could use a good wash.