UNITEHERE, 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.
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.
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.”
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.
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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Dec 11, 2023 1:09 pm
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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Nov 1, 2023 3:31 pm
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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.
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
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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.
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Roughly 250 Jewish New Haveners and their allies rallied on the steps of City Hall and then outside of U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s office downtown calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
They also demanded that their elected officials speak out to end America’s military support of what speaker after speaker termed a “genocidal” war against Palestinians in Gaza — in the latest example of how New Haveners are trying to interpret and reckon with the ongoing bloodshed in the Middle East.
Half an hour into a tense and loud and flag-filled standoff between pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protesters on the front steps of City Hall, city police brought in barricades to physically separate the two sides.
Those barriers successfully kept the peace — even as they kept apart Lynn Rabinovici Park and Karen Rabinovici, two sisters worried sick about the safety of their father’s relatives in Jerusalem, and Faisal Saleh, a Palestinian museum director worried sick about the safety of artists he works with across Gaza.
The mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, traveled across an ocean to her home’s “sister city” in New Haven to promote cross-continent comity, a shared history of liberation, green energy consciousness, and — unexpectedly — longer mayoral terms.
In the space of half a day, Jazmine Hughes went from celebrating reaching a milestone in her dream career — to learning that a friend who had realized his dreams, too, was now locked in a Russian prison.
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Feb 27, 2023 10:45 am
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Even if the war in Ukraine ends tomorrow, which it will not, there will remain an urgent need to rebuild the Eastern European country’s Russian-destroyed economy and infrastructure and to repatriate its citizens.