Solomonia Archive: Silent Slogans at Boston's Jerusalem Day Celebration: Protester Pics Inside

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Silent Slogans at Boston's Jerusalem Day Celebration: Protester Pics Inside

Another Israel event, another protest. This one was, according to the Solomonia operative present, characteristically small, but uncharacteristically quiet.

The Israeli Consulate sponsored its annual Jerusalem Day Celebration at the Boston Public Library yesterday. This is the same event at which Green-Rainbow Party activist David Rolde and his compadre Peter Lowney were arrested last year. The usual call went out for sloganeers, but things were quiet this time...maybe, too quiet... According to someone who was there:

Well, the whole SDP [Somerville Divestment Project] contingent was transplanted into Copley today. there was about 10 of them, all familiar faces. They all looked quite awful (that signature homeless look) and they seemed to scare passersby more than anything...They were absolutely quiet, not a peep [perhaps they learned this from their ACLU friends -S]. They were to the side of the entrance, not really interfering with folks going inside. Inside, someone asked me what was going on tonight at the lib as so many people were inside.

There was one counter-protester with a small sign made right there...

Well, there's not a big story to tell here, but everyone enjoys some protester pics, so here they are:

Some of the contingent, with puzzled civilian observers. David Rolde's butt:

Elaine Antonia, David Rolde, PF Soto (unfortunate passer-by in foreground):

Posted by Solomon at 3:11 PM on Thursday, May 31, 2007 | Comments (5)
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#1 JSinger | May 31, 2007 4:51 PM

...all familiar faces...

Yup. For the non-Somervilleans here, be assured that they look even more deranged in real life than they do here. That's actually a remarkably flattering photo of the PROTEST ZIONISTS RACIST MURDERERS guy, unless he's lost a lot of weight since I last kicked him off my front steps.

#2 Anna | May 31, 2007 6:00 PM

"Divest from Israel, not Sudan"

my vote for best placard.

#3 Jonathan | May 31, 2007 7:04 PM

Hi Sol,

Just to fill in a gap, I was the lone counter-protester at the BPL. I had my little sign which said, End the Occupation - Arabs Out.

I think I surprised the goons, and for a while they huddled where I believe they were strategizing about what to do about me. They then teased me about the size of my sign, as if I had sign envy! They were very proud that their signs were larger than mine. Then, one of them started spewing his slogans about six inches from my face. It was actually quite humorous.

Several passersby did give me the thumbs up sign.

It did teach me that these idiots can be beat. Perhaps it was a small victory :-)

#4 Solomon | May 31, 2007 7:21 PM

Good for you, Jonathan. Most people wouldn't have gotten near those people without CW gear!

#5 Eddie | June 1, 2007 10:41 AM

I do wish there were more counter protestors (anti-Islamofascist, anti-socialist) there.

I'd have signs like...

Remember Senator Robert F. Kennedy - Murdered by Islamofascist

Remember Pan Am 103, blown up by Islamofascists.

Remember 9/11, the sneak attack on the US by Islamofascists

Remember Madrids 3/11, the sneak attack by Islamofascists

Remember Londons 7/7, the sneak attack by Islamofascists

Remember the Beslan Russia school massacre, 181 murdered by Islamofascists

Remember the nazitional socialist/socialist Stalin/Shitler non-aggression pact of 1939.

Obviously there are many, many more examples of Islamofascist attacks on civilization.