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By ALEXA LEWIS
NORTHAMPTON — Navigating the complex violence between Israel and the Palestinian peoples is a difficult task for anyone. For children, the conflict can seem even more daunting and inaccessible. These days, community members at Lander-Grinspoon Academy...
By SAMUEL GELINAS
AMHERST — “Don’t breathe. Be invisible. We don’t want trouble.”As a woman who grew up under illegal occupation in Palestine, these words became mantras for Fatima Elabed out of necessity. Her daughter, however, Michigan congresswoman and...
By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL
NORTHAMPTON — Protesters from a variety of different activist groups in western Massachusetts coalesced onto the steps of City Hall Wednesday ahead of a speech before U.S. Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, levying accusations of...
By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN
GREENFIELD — The Karuna Center for Peacebuilding hosted a virtual discussion on Wednesday during which activists reflected on the state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and shared ideas for community building and future peace efforts. Karuna Center...
By ALEXA LEWIS
BELCHERTOWN — Protesters who were arrested at the May 7 pro-Palestinian rally on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus filed out of the Eastern Hampshire District Courthouse Wednesday morning after pretrial proceedings to gather with...
By ALEXA LEWIS
AMHERST — At 6 a.m. on Tuesday, representatives of the University of Massachusetts administration arrived at the pro-Palestinian encampment that went up the previous day on the school’s South Lawn and issued a warning to protesters — take down their...
By MADDIE FABIAN
NORTHAMPTON — Every day for the past month, a group of three local activists have fasted daily from sunrise to sunset as they protest the Israel-Hamas war and the U.S. government’s involvement in the conflict.The protesters — Peter Kakos, Nick Mottern...
By EMILEE KLEIN
NORTHAMPTON — Palestinian advocates will march 25 miles — the length of the Gaza Strip — from Northampton to Springfield on Sunday to demand Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey call for a permanent cease-fire.The 12-hour event, expected to draw at...
By STEVE PFARRER
High BridgeBy Michael Miller; Köehler Books Fayetteville, New York is not exactly a well-known locale. But in the mid-19th century, this village outside Syracuse was home to two people who would later make significant marks in U.S. history: President...
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