It’s never a good time to be a baby who’s been exposed to drugs. But the brilliant antiracist minds at Mass General Brigham have somehow found a way to make that situation even more risky. Early this month, the Massachusetts healthcare network announced its latest gambit in the fight against racial disparity in medicine: no longer reporting instances of abuse in cases of fetal drug exposure.
The rationale for this baffling new policy? The DEI-rich language of ‘health equity.’ As per Mass General’s <a href="https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/updating-system-policies-perinatal-testing">announcement</a>, “Black pregnant people are more likely to be drug tested and to be reported to child welfare systems than white pregnant people.” The decision was further portrayed as “the latest step in our efforts to address long-standing inequities in substance use disorder care.” But will it?
As the <a href="https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/updating-system-policies-perinatal-testing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">updated policy</a> reads:
<blockquote>First, the new policy requires written consent for toxicology testing of any pregnant individual or infant outside of emergent situations. At the same time, it limits toxicology testing to circumstances where results will change the medical management of the pregnant person or infant.
The policy also notes that an abuse/neglect report to state child welfare agencies in Massachusetts and New Hampshire after delivery should be filed only if there is reasonable cause to believe that the infant is suffering or at imminent risk of suffering physical or emotional injury and that ‘substance exposure’ alone, including treatment with methadone or buprenorphine for opioid use disorder, does not require a report of abuse or neglect in the absence of protective concerns for the infant.</blockquote>
Under Brigham’s no-report policies, black babies exposed to drugs can be passed over for potentially life-saving care if their mothers refuse help. How is erecting new barriers to treatment for these children a step toward any serious concept of justice?
As psychiatrist Sally Satel <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/mass-general-brigham-antiracism-maternity">notes</a>, the new policy would reduce not only the amount of reporting involved in the Boston system, but strip healthcare providers of the ability to meaningfully intervene in cases where a baby’s health appears compromised.
This is hardly the first time Brigham’s chosen to mix racial politicking with its patient care. The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as part of its United Against Racism campaign, <a href="https://www.brighamandwomens.org/about-bwh/newsroom/addressing-heart-admission-disparities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently introduced</a> a program where patient admissions to cardiac units would weigh the race of the patient, as a supposed ‘righting of the scale’ against historic health disparities.
Let’s be clear here: these practices, while perhaps palatable to the modern advocates of equity, cannot be conscionable to modern advocates of justice. Brigham has made its stand: prioritizing marginalized patient populations in a bid to right historical wrongs. Yet the obvious problem remains: Such policies attempt to right historical wrongs by risking modern ones.
The system may purport to advance ‘health equity,’ but it runs a real risk of hurting innocent children. We must evaluate these systems based on what they do, not merely on what they purport to do. To do otherwise is to adopt an uncritical perspective on equity that cedes legitimacy to unserious and dangerous solutions.
We are sometimes asked, in the name of charity and good faith, to pretend that arguments over DEI and equity-based policies are low-stakes questions. We’re told that the real diversity argument is between “validating the feelings and lived experience of people of color” or “propping up white supremacy with our complicit silence.” I’ve <a href="https://rlo.acton.org/archives/124960-the-strange-death-of-dei.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">written</a> <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/14/willour-dei-oklahoma-universities-nikole-hannah-jones-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/3-things-my-future-children-need-to-know-about-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">length</a> about how this isn’t the case, but the actions and results of the DEI movement speak far louder than its critics’ most pointed words.
For a further example, let’s take a closer look at Brigham’s cardiology policy. Brigham alerted physicians when a black or “Latinx” patient presented with heart failure to “educate the clinician about the fact that, historically, this population has had inequitable access to specialized cardiology care and offer a recommendation to consider changing admission.” It’s not an override of a clinician’s judgment or even a treatment prescription, meaning that it’s actually a relatively impotent policy in the aggregate. By any modern standard of DEI, it doesn’t even qualify as intersectional. But that’s actually the point — the policies that work aren’t the ones being dreamed up for ‘health equity’ brownie points.
Intersectionality, particularly in medicine, only works at the most basic level: the differentiation of the individual patient. The only morally serious option is for healthcare providers to evaluate patients based on individual history and symptoms — and avoid the kind of DEI-esque language of ‘health equity’ that makes observers and patients alike start raising questions about what forces are actually driving the boat over at Mass General Brigham.
That practical and rhetorical vision isn’t what modern DEI proponents want you to sign up for. Accepting their view of equity, in this case, means systems that risk passing over treatment for innocent children. Is that equity? It’s certainly not equality, it’s certainly not justice, and it’s not what anyone really wants for the future of American healthcare: we can’t validate people’s lived experiences if they die as babies in a maternity ward.
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Isaac Willour is an award-winning journalist focusing on race, culture, and American conservatism, as well as a corporate relations analyst at Bowyer Research. His work on race &amp; DEI has been featured at outlets including National Review, USA Today, C-SPAN, and the Daily Wire. He is a member of the Young Voices contributor program, and can be found on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/IsaacWillour">@IsaacWillour</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Immigration and Customs Enforcement&#8217;s</a> (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested an illegal alien in Boston who is wanted for murder in the Dominican Republic.
The federal agents arrested the 27-year-old alleged fentanyl trafficker near his residence in Saugus on March 21, ICE said in a statement on Tuesday.
&#8220;The unlawfully present Dominican citizen is currently facing local fentanyl trafficking charges and was previously arrested for strangulation and assault and battery charges,&#8221; the statement said.
ICE did not release the suspect&#8217;s name and blurred out his face in a photo that was taken as he was arrested.
The suspect &#8220;became the subject of a criminal police warrant for the charge of homicide issued by a criminal court in the city of Bani in the Dominican Republic’s state of Peravia&#8221; in November 2021, ICE said.
The next month, he was charged with trafficking fentanyl in the Newburyport District Court.
He was also charged with strangulation/suffocation and assault and battery of a family household member in the West Roxbury District Court. ICE said the charges in the West Roxbury District Court were dropped.
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Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported that the suspect fled to the U.S. in 2021 and illegally crossed the border as a &#8220;gotaway.&#8221;
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NEW: ICE Boston arrested a Dominican man wanted for murder in the DR who fled to the U.S. in 2021, when he crossed illegally as a “gotaway”, then went on to be arrested for local crimes in Massachusetts, including fentanyl trafficking &amp; strangulation. ICE arrested him near his… <a href="https://t.co/L1tKbKydSa">pic.twitter.com/L1tKbKydSa</a>
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ERO Boston Field Office Director Todd M. Lyons said that the suspect fled the Dominican Republic to avoid being tried for murder.
&#8220;He made his way to Massachusetts and has been repeatedly apprehended by local authorities and charged with crimes of violence and drug crimes,&#8221; Lyons said. &#8220;ERO Boston will not allow the world’s offenders to take refuge in our communities. We will continue to aggressively arrest and remove any such criminal elements in New England.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/once-deported-illegal-immigrant-charged-with-murder-in-shooting-death-of-25-year-old-michigan-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Once-Deported Illegal Immigrant Charged With Murder In Shooting Death Of 25-Year-Old Michigan Woman</a>

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Parents near <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/boston" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston</a> are becoming increasingly frustrated with the local teachers union, which has been on strike for nearly two weeks, keeping kids out of classrooms.
Public school teachers in Newton, just west of Boston, have been on an illegal strike for 1o days as of Thursday. The union, the Newton Teachers Association, is under the National Education Association.
Massachusetts law prohibits public school teachers to strike, and the union has already racked up at least $525,000 in fines.
At least two families with children in Newton schools have filed two lawsuits over the strike.
One couple who sued said their daughter has a learning disability and is suffering emotional distress from being out of the classroom.
The other lawsuit was filed by a mother who says her 10th-grader is facing some setbacks this year and that missing regular assistance in reading, writing, and math could jeopardize her chances of college acceptance. The mom also said her children have missed part of the hockey season and activities with the ski team club.
A dad of two middle and high school students <a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/01/31/newton-teachers-strike-community-hopes-for-resolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> WBUR, &#8220;we feel like our children are suffering significant harm as a result of an illegal strike and the law is in place for a reason.&#8221; He added that he and his wife cannot stay home from work.
However, some parents have expressed support for the teachers, one mom saying she stands with the educators &#8220;ten-thousand percent.&#8221;
The teachers union is demanding more pay, smaller classes, more social workers in schools, and a 12-week parental leave policy.
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On Tuesday, the school district was <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2024/02/01/newton-schools-teacher-strike-update" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offering</a> pay increase from $62,000 salaries to more than $81,000 by 2027 for some teachers. The average teacher pay in Newton is roughly $93,000, based on <a href="https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/statereport/teachersalaries.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the 2020 school year.
Earlier in the week, the Newton City Council called on the teachers to accept a new salary contract and end the strike.
&#8220;This strike has to end. We need to get our kids back in the classroom, and we need to do it now,&#8221; City Council President Marc Laredo <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/as-newton-schools-remain-closed-parents-express-support-opposition-to-teachers/3263929/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Tuesday at a press conference, adding that children &#8220;are suffering.&#8221;
&#8220;It makes me question whether the union really wants a deal,&#8221; Newton School Committee Chair Christopher Brezski said at a separate press conference. &#8220;It makes me question what this strike is really about. Is it about Newton&#8217;s kids and teachers? Is it about money? Or is it about some other bigger agenda, one where our kids are being used as pawns?&#8221;
The Newton school district enrolls 12,000 students in more than 20 schools.

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Parent Frustration Mounting Over Boston Area Teachers’ Nearly Two-Week Illegal Strike

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Illegal migrants are now sheltering at international airports in two major cities, first Chicago and now Boston.
One terminal at Boston Logan International Airport has turned into a temporary shelter for nearly 100 migrants now that the city&#8217;s other shelters have reached capacity. Some families <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/migrants-sleep-at-logan-airport-amid-calls-for-more-aid/3258115/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have been</a> sleeping for weeks in Terminal E, where most international flights arrive.
Photos <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12998541/chicago-boston-migrants-logan-airport-sanctuary-city.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a> families sleeping on the floor and on pallets, crowded by other people, blankets, and their belongings.
One woman collected hygiene items for the migrants, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/migrants-sleeping-floor-logan-airport/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">telling</a> WBZ that the migrants, many of whom have young children, do not have access to a shower, so they are given wipes to clean themselves.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NEW</a> Dozens of migrants are sleeping on the floor of the International terminal of Logan Airport.
 WBZ says that Massachusetts State Police are being paid overtime to assist at Logan overnight.
Volunteers helping the migrants are concerned of hygiene as no showers are… <a href="https://t.co/ZHnlkx3N66">pic.twitter.com/ZHnlkx3N66</a>
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First, it was Chicago&#39;s airport housing illegal aliens. 
Now, it’s Boston’s. 
How long until this happens where you live?<a href="https://t.co/ZvqkBACuMw">https://t.co/ZvqkBACuMw</a>
&mdash; Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1749878357133562228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Some migrants are <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/state-transportation-building-in-boston-will-house-migrant-families-as-emergency-shelter/3196822/#:~:text=The%20building%2C%20located%20at%2010,maxed%20out%20at%207%2C500%20families." target="_blank" rel="noopener">also</a> camping out in conference rooms at a transportation building in Boston. However, that space is only available at night.
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, a Democrat, capped the shelter system at 7,500 families in the fall despite Massachusetts&#8217; right-to-shelter law. Now, 600 families are on a waitlist for shelter, her administration <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/migrants-sleep-at-logan-airport-amid-calls-for-more-aid/3258115/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Earlier this week, Healey and eight other Democratic governors wrote to the Biden administration and congressional leaders <a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/01/23/maura-healey-governor-letters-immigration-reform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asking</a> for more funds to handle the migrant crisis.
&#8220;We need D.C. to act. We need Congress to act,&#8221; Healey said Monday at a press conference.
Healey&#8217;s office <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/migrants-sleeping-floor-logan-airport/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimates</a> migrants will cost the state $915 million next year. She has asked the state legislature for another $250 million to address the crisis this year, but that funding has not yet been approved.
Massachusetts State Police officers are being paid overtime to patrol the area of the airport where migrants are staying, Healey said.
&#8220;The airport has been a wonderful partner and I really want to thank the folks at the airport who are doing a wonderful job including members of the state police who are working their regular shifts but who are managing the inflow and outflow of folks from the airport,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/migrants-sleeping-floor-logan-airport/#:~:text=%22The%20airport%20has%20been%20a,told%20reporters%20at%20a%20news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Monday.
Meanwhile, however, the CEO of the airport called the migrant situation &#8220;not sustainable&#8221; back in November.
&#8220;When they come to Logan we meet them and we try to assist them, but we have to emphasize that Logan is not an appropriate place to house people,&#8221; Massport interim CEO Ed Freni <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/logan-airport-not-an-appropriate-place-for-migrants-arriving-daily-massport-ceo-says/3194521/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters.
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Chicago <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicago-migrants-shelter-struggles-bus-arrivals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has had</a> hundreds of migrants sleep in O&#8217;Hare International as the city scrambles for more shelter space and builds more shelters.
The hundreds of recent arrivals, including babies and the elderly, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-airport-now-sheltering-hundreds-of-illegal-migrants-as-city-waits-on-tents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lived</a> in a shuttle bus center at the Chicago airport’s Terminal 1, where they slept on cardboard and used airport bathrooms.
Other major cities are grappling with an influx of thousands of migrants that has also overwhelmed their shelter systems, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-adams-latest-response-to-flood-of-illegals-change-ruling-that-gave-them-right-to-shelter">New York City</a>, which has seen more than 160,000 migrants arrive since spring 2022.

Hundreds of asylum seekers stay at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago

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Massachusetts Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mayor-of-boston-equates-requiring-proof-of-vaccination-to-jim-crow-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrea Campbell</a> has found that Boston Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michelle-wu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michelle Wu</a>, a fellow Democrat, did nothing wrong holding a holiday party for public officials that excluded white people.
The AG&#8217;s office maintains that the event was not open to the public and therefore doesn&#8217;t violate the state&#8217;s public accommodation law, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/boston-mayors-party-that-excluded-white-officials-didnt-violate-law-ag" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.
The law specifically prohibits &#8220;making any distinction, discrimination, or restriction in admission to or treatment in a place of public accommodation based on race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, deafness, blindness, or any physical or mental disability, or ancestry.&#8221;
Notably, the office refuses to even open an investigation into the matter, despite numerous formal complaints being filed about the segregated party.
An email sent by City Council relations director Denise DosSantos revealed that the controversial party was dubbed the &#8220;Electeds of Color Holiday Party,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-mayor-posts-picture-of-elected-officials-enjoying-christmas-party-that-excluded-white-people-calls-it-a-special-moment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported last month.
“On behalf of Mayor Michelle Wu, I cordially invite you and a guest to the Electeds of Color Holiday Party on Wednesday, December 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Parkman House, 33 Beacon Street,” DosSantos <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/email-invite-electeds-color-holiday-party-mistakenly-sent-all-boston-city-councilors/LRQRP3WGFNHLZC5DLCB6PPNESY/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in the email invite.
Fifteen minutes later, however, DosSantos sent out another email apologizing for sending the email to all council members, indicating that it wasn’t supposed to be sent to white members of the council.
“I wanted to apologize for my previous email regarding the Holiday Party for tomorrow. I did send that to everyone by accident, I apologize if my email may have offended or came across as so,” she said, <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/email-invite-electeds-color-holiday-party-mistakenly-sent-all-boston-city-councilors/LRQRP3WGFNHLZC5DLCB6PPNESY/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Boston 25 News. “Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.”
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Wu, for her part, bragged about the party in a social media post. &#8220;Last night was my turn to host the annual holiday dinner for Boston’s elected officials of color—a special moment to appreciate that our affinity group now includes leadership across city, state, county, and federal offices,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C02RomqObK_/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=bf7eb472-eed6-4762-988a-a440361eff2e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">captioned</a> a photo of the event on December 14.
&#8220;Not too long ago in Boston, we didn’t need such a big table to fit electeds of color,&#8221; Wu continued. &#8220;But over my time as a City Councilor and now Mayor, following so many leaders who have paved the way, I’ve proudly watched this group grow and create space for mentorship and fellowship among many who are breaking down barriers while holding the weight of being the first or only. Throughout the year, we work to represent our communities with urgency and determination. And at the holidays, we take the time to celebrate and enjoy each other’s company!&#8221;
Facing backlash, Wu further defended the party, saying, “I can understand someone might be confused or worried if certain people weren’t being invited at all or were being left out of any type of celebration. But I assure you, everyone on the Boston City Council has got an invitation to multiple types of events and holiday parties.&#8221;
Wu has been accused of racial discrimination in the past over her comments and her administration’s policies. Last year, Wu <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-democrat-mayor-sued-for-allegedly-discriminating-against-white-restaurant-owners" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was sued</a> by a group of white restaurant owners who say they were targeted for city fees in part due to their ethnic heritage.
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-mayor-faces-backlash-over-christmas-party-excluding-white-officials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Mayor Faces Backlash Over Christmas Party Excluding White Officials</a>

Attorney General Andrea Campbell speaks at UMass Boston.

State AG Says Boston Mayor’s No-Whites-Allowed Party Was Totally Fine

State AG Finds Boston Mayor’s No-Whites-Allowed Party Was Totally Fine

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More than 30 synagogues in Massachusetts were targeted with bomb threats on Sunday, just days after its largest city, Boston, rejected millions of dollars in federal anti-terrorism grant money due to the belief that funding law enforcement could be racist.
The city council rejected the grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in a contentious 6 to 6 vote, with the opposition arguing that giving more funds to law enforcement would “do more harm than good” to minority communities. The grant was intended to fund “planning, exercises, trainings, and operational needs, that will help prevent, respond to and recover from threats or acts of terrorism, including chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive incidents,” according to a letter from Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to the council.
Sunday’s bomb threats would be the sort of incidents the Metro Boston Homeland Security Region would use the funding to train for. Police responded to the bomb threats — which turned out to be hoaxes — and swept several synagogues, where no explosives were found.
The council’s decision deprives several surrounding towns that are within the Metro Boston Homeland Security Region of the benefits from the funding as Boston is the lead city that has the authority to accept the funding. Brookline, one of the towns impacted, had two synagogues threatened directly by an email stating that bombs were inside the buildings and would go off in a few hours, a spokesperson for the town’s police department told The Daily Wire.
“Unfortunately these incidents have happened at temples from time to time,” public information officer Paul Campbell said. “Upon learning of this most recent bomb hoax, we sent a message to all of the Jewish institutions, advising them of the incident to at least make them aware and so they could contact us if they needed us.”
Councilor Michael Flaherty, who voted in favor of the anti-terrorism funding, said the rejection was an embarrassment.
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“Nonsensical and embarrassing, where several councilors did not support the Mayor’s office of Emergency Management,” Flaherty said according to the <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/12/15/boston-city-council-slammed-for-embarrassing-vote-to-block-13m-counter-terrorism-grant/">Boston Herald</a>. “Not only did they fail the residents of Boston, they failed eight other cities and towns that were depending on this funding to protect themselves against acts of terrorism.”
Council President Ed Flynn said the funding is important considering the city’s history of terror attacks — noting not only the Boston Marathon bombing, but also that terrorists departed from Boston’s Logan International Airport before hijacking planes that crashed into the World Trade Towers on September 11, 2011.
“Boston is not immune from these issues, unfortunately,” Flynn said, according to the Boston Herald.
FBI Boston spokesperson Kristen Cetera urged the community to “remain vigilant” after Sunday’s threats.
“The FBI takes hoax threats very seriously because it puts innocent people at risk,” she said. “While we have no information to indicate a specific and credible threat, we will continue to work with our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners to gather, share, and act upon threat information as it comes to our attention.”
State Police trooper Brandon Doherty said hundreds of other Jewish institutions received similar threats nationwide over the weekend.
“The State Police Hate Crime Awareness and Response Team, a unit that was established several weeks ago, will communicate with religious leaders about follow-up concerns they may have related to the threats,” Doherty told The Daily Wire.
The votes opposing the funding came from Councilors Ricardo Arroyo, Liz Breadon, Kendra Lara, Ruthzee Louijeune, Julia Mejia, and Brian Worrell.
Lara, who lost her reelection bid and appeared in court earlier this year for crashing into a house with her child in the car, skipped work last week for a “Global Strike for Gaza,” <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12855195/Democrat-Kendra-Lara-Districrt-6-Boston-strike-support-Palestine.html">The Daily Mail reported</a>.
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Louijeune, during the meeting, said there needed to be more “community conversation” before moving forward with grants, arguing that the city had to ensure “we’re not doing more harm than good in our black — in all of our communities —  and especially our black and brown communities.”
BRIC, the Boston police department intelligence gathering wing, has been under fire in recent years by critics who claim it disproportionately tracks people of color with its gang database. After heated debate, $3.4 million from four years&#8217; worth of held-up state funding for BRIC passed in October, <a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/10/04/boston-police-gang-database-funding">according to WBUR</a>.
A Democrat state senator said the vote enabled politics to come before public health and responded by introducing legislation on Friday to strip the Boston City Council of the power to approve public safety grants.
“The bill would ensure access to federal and state funds designated to assist our municipal partners is providing the highest level of public health and safety services in a dangerous world.” Nick Collins who represents South Boston told the Boston Herald. 
Under Collin’s legislation, the state legislature and the governor would approve funding rather than local councils.
Wu plans to refile the grant next year after newly elected members of the city council take office.
Wu and the city councilors did not respond to a request for comment.

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Bomb Threats Hit Synagogues Days After Woke Boston Lawmakers Reject Federal Anti-Terror Grant

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Boston’s Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu boasted in an Instagram post on Friday about having a “special moment” with fellow elected officials at a government Christmas party that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-mayor-faces-backlash-over-christmas-party-excluding-white-officials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">excluded white people</a>. 
Wu faced backlash earlier this week after an email from her administration mistakenly went out to all city council members, inviting them to an “Electeds of Color Holiday Party.” After doubling down on her administration’s decision to hold the holiday party with only people of color, Wu celebrated the gathering by posting a picture of everyone in attendance. 
“Last night was my turn to host the annual holiday dinner for Boston’s elected officials of color—a special moment to appreciate that our affinity group now includes leadership across city, state, county, and federal offices,” Wu said in the caption of her social media post. 
“Throughout the year, we work to represent our communities with urgency and determination. And at the holidays, we take the time to celebrate and enjoy each other’s company!” the mayor added.
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While Wu apologized after an email was accidentally sent to white government officials who were not invited to the party, she defended the discriminatory gathering, saying white elected officials are invited to other events during the holiday season. 
“I can understand someone might be confused or worried if certain people weren’t being invited at all or were being left out of any type of celebration. But I assure you, everyone on the Boston City Council has got an invitation to multiple types of events and holiday parties,” Wu <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12862493/michelle-wu-electeds-color-boston-holiday-party.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Shortly after the email was mistakenly sent by City Council relations director Denise DosSantos to all city council members, DosSantos sent out another email apologizing, indicating that it wasn’t supposed to end up in the inboxes of white council members. Councilman Frank Baker, who is white, found the party “divisive” but said there’s nothing he can do about it. 
“You don’t want me at a party, I’m not going to come to a party,” Baker remarked. Later, the white councilman <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/12/13/battenfeld-michelle-wu-defends-holiday-party-excluding-white-city-councilors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Boston Herald, “I find it unfortunate that with the temperature the way it is, that we would further that division.” 
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Wu was criticized earlier this year for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-blasted-for-white-jokes-at-st-patricks-day-breakfast">joke</a> she made during a St. Patrick’s Day speech that targeted white people. 
&#8220;I&#8217;m getting used to dealing with problems that are expensive, disruptive, and white,” the Democratic mayor said. 
That comment was mentioned in court documents in a lawsuit from five white restaurant owners who alleged that Wu singled them out for a $7,500 outdoor dining fee, a fee which only applied to establishments in their neighborhood. The restaurant owners later had to withdraw their lawsuit after legal setbacks. 
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu

Boston Mayor Posts Picture Of Elected Officials Enjoying Christmas Party That Excluded White People, Calls It A ‘Special Moment’

Boston Mayor Posts Picture Of Elected Officials Enjoying Christmas Party That Excluded White People, Calls It A 'Special Moment'

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There are two major problems with the notion of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
The first is the inherent discrimination in the concept: the belief that all aspects of success are due to exploitation and discrimination. This means, when applied to groups, statistically underperforming groups are to be considered “victimized,” whether or not they are victims, and to be treated with special privileges; those who are members of statistically overachieving groups, whether or not they are victimized, are to be treated as villains. 
The only possible exception to this hierarchy is white men, who are always to be treated as villains, whether their group is underperforming or overperforming in any given situation.
This philosophy is how you get a holiday party for “Electeds of Color” thrown by Asian Boston Mayor Michelle Wu. Apparently, this “Electeds of Color” party has been happening for a decade in Boston. 
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Obviously, this is discriminatory and wrong. If there were a white-electeds-only party, of course, that would be violative of federal discrimination law. But DEI insists you cannot be wrong so long as you’re a member of the victimhood hierarchy.
So that’s the first problem with DEI: It’s racist.
Then there’s the second problem, not disconnected to the first: mediocrity. 
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If success is to be treated as sinful and failure as virtuous — because victimhood is virtue — then mediocrity is the happy middle wherein you can avoid being completely terrible at things and also escape censure for being good at them.
So it is in academia, where racially diverse mediocrity is preferable to non-race-based meritocratic achievement. See, for example, Harvard, where <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oh-to-be-a-black-harvard-president">President Claudine Gay</a>, despite apparently being both a serial plagiarist and a soft-on-anti-Semitism leader, is still in her job.
Or, see Chicago, where Mayor Brandon Johnson — the even worse successor to Lori Lightfoot — announced his plans to kill Chicago’s high-achieving selective-enrollment schools, since they weren’t racially diverse enough. Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez has put forth <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12864439/Chicago-Mayor-Brandon-Johnson-selective-enrollment-high-schools.html">a resolution</a> seeking “a transition away from privatization and admissions/enrollment policies and approaches that further stratification and inequity in CPS and drive student enrollment away from neighborhood schools.”
Better that high-achieving students be trapped in the crappy local school than they be able to go to a better school. Mediocrity for all!
And so it is at the White House, where equity prevails above all. 
Now, when the Biden White House promised equity would be at the heart of all they do, they meant it. Which, presumably, is why Dr. Jill Biden — the greatest of all doctors — invited the Dorrance Dance company to perform a version of the “Nutcracker” ballet at the White House. 
There’s nothing wrong with the concept here; the “Nutcracker” is a famous Christmastime piece of culture, and tap dance is a historically black American art form with a long and storied Hollywood history. Many if not most of the greatest tap artists in history have been black Americans, from the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNKRm6H-qOU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nicholas Brothers</a> to Bill “Bojangles” Robinson to Gregory Hines. 
Now, of course, like most of what is amazing in America, tap has been adopted by people of all cultures — which is how you end up with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, two of the greatest American artists of all time.
So, there was plenty of history and quality for the Biden White House to choose from in picking their Christmas tap routine.
But what the White House presented wasn’t good tap dancing. It wasn’t terrible. It was just … well, <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1735074586721468855" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meh</a>. 
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A bit of magic, wonder, and joy brought to you by the talented tappers of Dorrance Dance, performing their playful interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite.
Enjoy! 💕 <a href="https://t.co/qXtCm4t37o">pic.twitter.com/qXtCm4t37o</a>
&mdash; Jill Biden (@FLOTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1735074586721468855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Now, why was Dorrance Dance picked to do this much-mocked routine? Presumably, it had something to do with the politics of the group. Michelle Dorrance, founder of the group, has dedicated the group to “antiracism.” Here is what she <a href="https://www.dorrancedance.com/antiracism-michelles-why" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on her website: 
<blockquote>It is our job to tell the history of tap dance as a celebration of Black culture and also the never-ending struggle against systemic racism and white supremacy in this country &#8211; the origin story of appropriation in American culture. In 2020, I am a part of the way this story plays out. I am a white tap dancer with Black cultural ancestors in a society that privileges white people and whiteness. I am easy for white audiences wanting to access and experience elements of Black culture to swallow.</blockquote>
Dorrance says that tap dance is “both a tradition born of subversion/revolution/protest and a powerful vehicle for social and political change” and adds that as a beneficiary of “white privilege that I invite you to join me in lifelong antiracism work. Understanding how deeply embedded white supremacy, racism, and colonialism is in our culture is paramount to understanding our role (as white people) in perpetuating it, and embracing our job to dismantle it.”
Or, you know, you could just dance.
Because here’s the reality of a free country: Quality improves everyone and everything. All the black tap artists I mentioned did more for racial comity and black Americans than Michelle Dorrance ever will — because they demonstrated, to anyone who would even think that race ought to define someone, that incredible artistry spans and transcends race.
But when DEI is your goal, mediocrity is all too often the result.

First Lady Jill Biden Delivers Remarks On Her Holiday Message For The Season

Not Only Is DEI Racist, It Champions Mediocrity

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The other day, I briefly talked about a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-mayor-faces-backlash-over-christmas-party-excluding-white-officials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racially segregated holiday party</a> that was just thrown by the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu. In case you missed it, the mayor&#8217;s office only wanted to invite the non-white members of the Boston city council to the event. They wanted to exclude all the white people.
To that end, the mayor&#8217;s staff sent out a bunch of emails addressed to &#8220;electeds of color,&#8221; which is yet another example of the fact that Leftists are simply incapable of speaking English. They&#8217;re well on their way to creating their own language at this point.
But there was a problem with this party. By mistake, the mayor&#8217;s office sent out invitations to all of Boston&#8217;s city council members, including the white devils. It wasn&#8217;t just &#8220;Electeds of Color&#8221; who got an invite, seven white people got one, too. In an administration that cared about the Constitution, or basic morality, this would be a highly embarrassing episode. The mayor would apologize for discriminating on the basis of race and resign. But that&#8217;s not what happened in this case.
Instead, Wu apologized — not for the discrimination, but for accidentally sending the invitation to white people. She says that was the only error she made. Watch:
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The mayor also clarified that this &#8220;Electeds of Color&#8221; party has been going on for several years, and it&#8217;s only now been discovered because of the mistake that her staff made. So rest easy, the racial discrimination is nothing new. That&#8217;s the position of the mayor&#8217;s office.
Whatever you make of that, there are a few legal experts who have suggested it might violate Massachusetts law, which doesn&#8217;t allow government officials to use city resources to enforce racial segregation. The Massachusetts Public Accommodations Act bars officials from, &#8220;making any distinction, discrimination, or restriction in admission to or treatment in a place of public accommodation based on race.&#8221; This event was held at the Parkman House, which is owned by the city, although it&#8217;s not open to the public.
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Maybe that&#8217;s the &#8220;out&#8221; here. Maybe the mayor can say that it&#8217;s legal to discriminate on the basis of race, as long as it&#8217;s in a city building that isn&#8217;t a &#8220;public accommodation.&#8221; That still doesn&#8217;t address the question of why Wu was so intent on keeping white people away from this event. 
It&#8217;s especially strange given that Wu has a white husband. You might be tempted to think that Wu just wanted to attend a holiday party without her husband around. Maybe that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on here. She also has two half-white children — are they allowed to be at the party for half the time? Is that how that works?
But this is not a completely satisfying explanation, mainly because it does seem that the mayor has a deep-seated disdain for white people, at least in general. 
For one thing, just a year ago, Wu cracked a joke about how many &#8220;white&#8221; problems she&#8217;s had to deal with in the city. Watch:
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“I’m getting used to dealing w problems that are expensive, disruptive &amp; White”. -Boston Mayor Michelle Wu
 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Boston?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Boston</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorWu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MayorWu</a> has finally shown her true colors. 
This isn’t funny. This is disgusting. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ShameOnWu?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ShameOnWu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CotterReporter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CotterReporter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HowieCarrShow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HowieCarrShow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DoctorTurtleboy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DoctorTurtleboy</a> <a href="https://t.co/eFTWomIH3O">pic.twitter.com/eFTWomIH3O</a>
&mdash; Boston First Responders United (BFRU) (@BostonFRU) <a href="https://twitter.com/BostonFRU/status/1505676783475122182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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This is the point where you have to wonder how someone like Michelle Wu became the mayor of a city like Boston, given that she clearly hates most of the city&#8217;s residents based on their skin color. In fact, even though the white population in Boston is declining, it’s still one of the whitest major cities in the country. And yet it has, arguably, the most anti-white mayor in the country.
How does that happen? Well, not a lot of people are asking that question right now, even in Boston. As I mentioned yesterday, even white members of the city council — the very people that Wu excluded from the holiday party because of their skin color — are mostly shrugging this whole episode off. They&#8217;re suggesting it&#8217;s an isolated incident, as if that would somehow make racial segregation acceptable.
But it&#8217;s not an isolated incident, not even close. You don&#8217;t hear a lot about it, but explicit anti-white discrimination is no longer unusual in this country. I&#8217;m not talking about racial bias, or affirmative action admissions, or racial preferences in hiring and promotions. Everyone knows that&#8217;s been going on. I&#8217;m talking about policies — in government, universities, and school systems — that overtly ban white people from participating.
This is a real problem. It&#8217;s not just happening at the mayor&#8217;s holiday party in Boston. Racial segregation has made a comeback in this country in a big way. You just don’t hear very much about it.
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Right now, for example, a school district in Illinois is <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/04/news/illinois-schools-segregated-classes-blasted-as-unconstitutional/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">segregating</a> its English and math classes by race. At Evanston Township High School, black and Latino students go into one classroom when it&#8217;s time to learn English, calculus, and algebra. Whites and Asians go into a different room. This is the kind of program that legal experts say is clearly unconstitutional. If anyone sued, it would be struck down immediately. But people aren&#8217;t interested in suing, at least not yet. So the program will continue. They even have a name for this whole system of racial discrimination. The school board calls it &#8220;AXLE&#8221; — for &#8220;Advancing Excellence, Lifting Everyone.&#8221;
As shocking as this sounds, it&#8217;s nothing new for Chicago. A couple of years ago, Chicago&#8217;s mayor at the time, Lori Lightfoot, announced that for one day, she wouldn&#8217;t talk to white reporters. She just straight-up said that she didn&#8217;t want to deal with them. Again, there was mostly a collective shrug from reporters in the city. Watch:
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Lightfoot never apologized for that. And why would she? She understands that in Chicago — the third biggest city in the United States — open anti-white race hate isn&#8217;t just tolerated, it&#8217;s popular.
Again there are many more examples. In the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s overdose, Rice University students <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/rice-university-black-house-statue-demolition-demands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> the construction of a literal &#8220;Black House&#8221; on campus, along with segregated housing. And last year, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/19/off-campus-uc-berkeley-housing-bans-white-people-from-common-areas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that an off-campus housing co-op at U.C. Berkeley had banned white people from the common areas. This is a five-story building called the &#8220;Person of Color Theme House.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s an excerpt from the house rules: 
<blockquote>Many POC moved here to be able to avoid white violence and presence, so respect their decision of avoidance if you bring white guests. &#8230; White guests are not allowed in common spaces.</blockquote>
In fact, some white guests weren&#8217;t allowed at all. As one student reported, &#8220;‘[I] was not allowed to let my dad enter the house because he’s white.&#8221;
If you&#8217;re wondering where Berkeley&#8217;s administration stood on all of this, the answer is that they support it. Anti-white hatred is endemic at the university. Three years ago, in the summer of George Floyd, a third-year student named Seth Smith was shot in the back of the head, execution-style, while he was out for a walk. Smith&#8217;s killer was a black career criminal who mocked Smith for being white when he was arrested.
How did Berkeley administrators respond to this incident? The chancellor released this statement: &#8220;Many of you may have had a close relationship with Seth and are feeling a sense of loss and disbelief. Others, like many of us, are experiencing stress, grief and anxiety related to the coronavirus pandemic and the recent murders of George Floyd, Riah Milton, and other Black Americans.&#8221;
In other words, sorry about the white kid who just got murdered. But isn&#8217;t the death of George Floyd — a felon with no connection whatsoever to Berkeley — also really upsetting? That&#8217;s what they said. Imagine being one of Seth Smith&#8217;s friends or family members and seeing that email. You&#8217;d understand the message immediately, which is that white people don&#8217;t matter.
This is a message that Berkeley has communicated a lot recently, in various ways. For example, the university recently held a blacks-only graduation ceremony. They&#8217;ve been doing this every year for a while now, but earlier this year one clip went viral. Watch:
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This is state-funded segregation. And there are many more examples of it, outside of the Bay Area. As of 2019, more than 75 universities in this country <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/more-than-75-colleges-host-blacks-only-graduation-ceremonies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offer</a> black-only graduation ceremonies. The actual number by now is probably much higher. Harvard still hosts &#8220;affinity celebrations&#8221; for graduates, which are subdivided by skin color. White people, of course, are the only racial group that doesn&#8217;t get one.
What&#8217;s important to keep in mind is that none of these incidents were national scandals, although they obviously should have been. In many cases, the people being discriminated against don&#8217;t seem to mind that much. Those impacted by these policies could file lawsuits and, even in our court system, easily win them. A lot of this stuff just isn’t remotely legal. But nobody challenges it. Nobody sues. Nobody even objects, most of the time. And because of that ambivalence, &#8220;racial equity&#8221; is rapidly becoming what it was always going to become, which is the return of racial segregation.

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Democratic Boston Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michelle-wu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michelle Wu</a> is facing criticism after a member of her administration sent out an email invitation for a Christmas party that excluded white officials.
City Council relations director Denise DosSantos mistakenly sent out the email to all city council members inviting them to an “Electeds of Color Holiday Party.&#8221;
“On behalf of Mayor Michelle Wu, I cordially invite you and a guest to the Electeds of Color Holiday Party on Wednesday, December 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Parkman House, 33 Beacon Street,” DosSantos <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/email-invite-electeds-color-holiday-party-mistakenly-sent-all-boston-city-councilors/LRQRP3WGFNHLZC5DLCB6PPNESY/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. 
Fifteen minutes later, DosSantos sent out another email apologizing for sending the email to all council members, indicating that it wasn’t supposed to be sent to white members of the council. 
“I wanted to apologize for my previous email regarding the Holiday Party for tomorrow. I did send that to everyone by accident, I apologize if my email may have offended or came across as so,” DosSantos <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/email-invite-electeds-color-holiday-party-mistakenly-sent-all-boston-city-councilors/LRQRP3WGFNHLZC5DLCB6PPNESY/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, according to Boston 25 News. “Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.”
Councilman Frank Baker, who is white, <a href="https://whdh.com/news/email-error-sparks-controversy-surrounding-electeds-of-color-holiday-party-in-boston/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the idea of a race-segregated party was divisive. 
“I do find it divisive, but what are you going to do about it,” he said. “You don’t want me at a party, I’m not going to come to a party.”
Wu <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12862493/michelle-wu-electeds-color-boston-holiday-party.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> the party, which has reportedly been going on for years, saying that there were all kinds of events designed for different groups of people. 
“I can understand someone might be confused or worried if certain people weren’t being invited at all or were being left out of any type of celebration. But I assure you, everyone on the Boston City Council has got an invitation to multiple types of events and holiday parties,” Wu said.
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Wu has been accused of racial discrimination in the past over her comments and her administration&#8217;s policies. Earlier this year, Wu <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-democrat-mayor-sued-for-allegedly-discriminating-against-white-restaurant-owners" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was sued</a> by a group of white restaurant owners who say they were targeted for city fees in part due to their ethnic heritage.
According to the restaurant owners, Wu and the city singled them out for a $7,500 outdoor dining fee, a fee which <a href="https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/03/08/north-end-restaurant-owners-claim-discriminated-lawsuit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">only applied</a> to establishments in their neighborhood. The lawsuit <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/06/02/north-end-restaurant-owners-drop-lawsuit-against-boston-mayor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was later</a> withdrawn after a series of legal setbacks for the restaurant owners. 
Wu was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boston-mayor-michelle-wu-blasted-for-white-jokes-at-st-patricks-day-breakfast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also criticized</a> for a joke about being “used to dealing with problems that are expensive, disruptive, and white.”

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A group of Arabs from the Middle East and North Africa were deeply disturbed after viewing 47-minutes of Hamas’s October 7 atrocities during a screening at the Israeli consulate in Boston, Massachusetts.
“I was shocked — I couldn&#8217;t breathe,” Fatema Al Harbi from Bahrain told The Daily Wire. “I cried most of it.”
The group is part of a delegation meeting with American leaders and advocating for peace under the organization Sharaka, which was founded after the Abraham Accords. Members of the delegation included individuals from Syria, Lebanon, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco.
<h3>ARAB PEACE ACTIVISTS REACT TO RESTRICTED HAMAS MASSACRE VIDEO COMPILATION</h3>
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While much of the footage has been circulated online, the compilation does not blur faces of dead or alive adults, and includes videos that have not been released publicly. The consulate did not allow video cameras or cell phones in the screening room.
“I thought I saw enough on social media,” said Al Harbi, who is also the Sharaka’s Gulf affairs director. “There were more horrific acts and barbaric acts towards civilians — people sleeping in their beds.”
In total, the video shows over 120 bodies including children, videos of beheadings, houses and people set on fire, unarmed people shot at point blank range and more.
“I thought the worst I&#8217;ve seen in my life is what ISIS has done in Iraq and Syria,” Rawan Osman who is Syrian and Lebanese said. “I have never imagined saying I&#8217;ve seen something worse.”
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Osman, who has lived in Syria and Lebanon, said the glee that Hamas fighters had in the video while they executed and beheaded people made them worse than ISIS.
“They were so joyful and cheering over dead bodies and they were parading bodies without clothes,” Al Harbi, who is Muslim, said. “That&#8217;s not the Islam that I knew my whole life.”
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Osman said  the hardest part of the video for her was a scene of a father appearing to jump on a grenade to save his children in a bomb shelter.
“I&#8217;m a mother and I could relate to the fear, the dread the father and the children were feeling,” she said. “The moment the boys realize that their father has been killed and the way the terrorists react to that, they&#8217;re just pushing them around, like move on.”
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“I think his childhood ended that moment,” Osman said of one of the children that was heard wishing to be dead in the video after his father was killed.
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The footage has left journalists and lawmakers in tears during other screenings. Nearly every person from the Boston group was crying while watching the footage. During the debrief one man had to leave and no one was making eye contact with each other.
“I couldn’t contain myself, I had to go out,” Youssef Elazhari from Morocco said. “I’ve seen most of the videos, but seeing them all together gets to you. I had to change the air and cry a bit.”
<div id="attachment_655759" style="width: 770px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-655759" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-655759" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/4-300x169.png" alt="Kfar Aza massacre sight in southern Israel." width="760" height="428" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/4-300x169.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/4-1024x576.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/4-768x432.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/4-1536x864.png 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/4-2048x1152.png 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px" />Each house on a particular street in Kfar Aza faced a different fate. Some were entirely burned, some had bullet holes, others still have blood on personal items.</div>
Elazhari said the section showing videos from the Nova music festival massacre was the hardest for him because he likes to attend similar events in Morocco.
“I know how happy people are at these types of events and how much they want to be with their community that is full of love,” he said. “But Hamas just wanted to kill them without even knowing who they are.
“In Morocco, Palestine is considered a noble cause but they don’t know who they are championing, they don’t know s***,” he said.
Elazhari added that he is not surprised by Israel’s response in invading Gaza.
“Hamas killed people and took hostages. That’s just telling the Israelis ‘come to my house and look for them,&#8217;” he said. “Hamas has no concept of failure: if you kill someone it’s glory, if you die, it’s also glory. There’s just no end.”
Osman said it’s frustrating when Hamas denies the atrocities.
“An Israeli was decapitated with a small knife and then his head was taken away,” she said recounting what she saw in the video. “I think that&#8217;s enough proof.”
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Al Harbi said she doesn’t think the video would convince some people who hate Israel of the atrocities even if it were to be released publicly.
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“I think some people don&#8217;t want to accept the reality and don&#8217;t want to give credits of what actually happened that day,” she said. “It&#8217;s a different kind of war happening.”
With the horrific scenes burned into her mind, Al Harbi said she will continue to advocate for peace.
“Seeing the bodies without without their heads and and seeing children crying over their family’s bodies … I think those scenes will always stick in my mind, and I think that will help me always to advocate for peace, that no children, no woman, no father deserve to to see such scenes, no matter what their religion or nationality,” she said.
Osman said she has no plans to stop advocating for peace and against Hamas.
“I have seen the horrific scenes coming out of Gaza, but I also do not allow them to confuse me,” she said. “I do remember what happened on the 7th of October — who instigated this war — and as a mother, as someone who grew up in the Middle East, as someone who has family across the Middle East and many friends in Israel, I cannot carry on living as if something hasn&#8217;t happened.”

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