数千名亲巴勒斯坦示威者封锁波士顿主干道，游行至以色列领事馆
【中美创新时报2024 年 10 月 6 日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）《波士顿环球报》记者约翰·希利亚德、尼克·斯托伊科、肖恩·科特和丹·格劳恩（John Hilliard, Nick Stoico, Sean Cotter and Dan Glaun）对此作了下述报道。
数千名亲巴勒斯坦示威者周日从波士顿公园开始游行，穿过波士顿部分地区，导致一条重要道路交通拥堵，并在以色列领事馆外集会。
组织者说，他们抗议以色列，要求以色列结束在加沙和黎巴嫩的军事行动。一些团体批评示威者决定在 10 月 7 日前一天和圣日期间举行集会。
此次示威活动导致城市主干道斯托罗大道交通瘫痪约半小时，并堵塞了比肯山的当地道路。许多抗议者戴着头巾，举着代表巴勒斯坦人和黎巴嫩国家的国旗，或举着写有“停止种族灭绝”和“停止向以色列提供武器”等标语的标语。
此次示威活动由波士顿巴勒斯坦联盟组织，该联盟在线列出了大约 44 个成员团体，包括哈佛大学和波士顿大学等学校的校园组织。
巴勒斯坦青年运动组织者 Lea Kayali 表示，封锁斯托罗大道是加强抗议以色列策略的一部分。
“我们需要打破现状，”Kayali 说，示威者于周日下午晚些时候聚集在公园广场的以色列领事馆外。
犹太和平之声的 Eli Gerzon 表示，以色列的行动并没有让犹太人更安全。
“只有巴勒斯坦人安全自由，犹太人才会安全自由，”他在领事馆对抗议者说，并赢得了欢呼声。
近一年前，哈马斯在以色列杀害了 1,200 人，其中大部分是平民，并劫持了约 250 人为人质，这是自大屠杀以来对犹太人最致命的袭击。据哈马斯控制的加沙卫生部称，在战争中，以色列在加沙杀害了 41,000 多名巴勒斯坦人，包括平民和战士。
在以色列声称针对哈马斯的持续空袭中，数百万加沙人被迫离开家园。
以色列和哈马斯之间的战争也有可能扩大为中东地区更广泛的战争。最近几周，以色列日益陷入与加沙哈马斯和黎巴嫩真主党的两线冲突。支持哈马斯和真主党的伊朗于 10 月 1 日对以色列发动了导弹袭击。
示威活动于下午 1 点左右在波士顿公园的 Parkman 露天舞台开始，最终吸引了数千人参加，他们在鼓声中高呼支持巴勒斯坦人和黎巴嫩的口号。
普罗维登斯的麦克·肖表示，他参加抗议活动是为了确保人们继续关注加沙局势。
“停止种族灭绝，停止战争，停止谋杀加沙妇女和儿童，”肖说，他的肩膀上披着一面巴勒斯坦国旗，就像披着斗篷一样。
波士顿警方发言人约翰·博伊尔警探表示，抗议活动没有获得市政府的许可。几个小时后，人群游行到查尔斯街，向北前往斯托罗大道。
几名骑自行车和摩托车的波士顿警察赶到现场，并在抗议者在当地道路上游行时拦停了交通。
抗议者到达斯托罗大道后，涌入东行车道。司机被迫停下车，至少有一名司机下车，似乎在拍摄示威者的视频。
在斯托罗大道，示威者在路上跳来跳去，高呼“起义，起义，起义全球化”和“抵抗是合理的”。“关闭它！”示威者高呼。
州警察在高速公路上拦停了交通，示威者游行到里维尔街，然后绕回灯塔山。斯托罗大道于下午 4 点左右重新开放。
当他们向南游行时，他们到达了波士顿公园广场酒店，一些抗议者与罢工的酒店工人混在一起。
酒店工人工会退休成员埃德·查尔兹说，巴勒斯坦人和美国工人面临着同样的斗争。
“我们要关闭这座城市；我们将关闭这个国家，直到从波士顿到巴勒斯坦的工人都获得自由，”Childs 说。
示威者随后游行至公园广场的以色列领事馆，领事馆入口被金属栅栏封锁。现场还有身穿霓虹背心的波士顿警察。
“大声说清楚，我们不希望犹太复国主义者在这里，”示威者在领事馆外高呼。
马萨诸塞州警方在周日下午晚些时候发表的声明中表示，他们一直在监视封锁斯托罗大道的示威者，这些示威者随后前往州议会大厦和波士顿公园。
周日下午早些时候，当示威活动还在波士顿公园进行时，乐队舞台上的一位演讲者带领人群高呼口号：“团结的人民永远不会被打败”，他们还喊道：“黎巴嫩正在流血，你听到他们的尖叫声了吗？”
33 岁的 Brett Wharton 从事营销工作，住在后湾区，他举着一块牌子，上面列着一长串新闻头条，记录了加沙的破坏和约旦河西岸的暴力事件。他说，美国必须停止对以色列的支持。
“我们需要停止将此定性为亲以色列或亲巴勒斯坦，”Wharton 说。“我说这些口号时有些犹豫，因为很明显，这是将一个大问题简化为几个词。”
许多抗议者还高呼口号，这些口号因呼吁对犹太人施暴而受到批评。
抗议的时间点在普通星期日，引起了少数反示威者的愤怒。
乐队台上的一位演讲者喊道：“几乎就在一年前，加沙打破了监狱大门。” 人群欢呼起来，吉登·本·里夫卡摇了摇头。
“他们在庆祝 10 月 7 日，”50 岁的昆西人里夫卡说。“那是我一生中最糟糕的犹太人日子。”
本报道中包含了来自环球通讯社的材料。
题图：抗议者在斯托罗大道游行，亲巴勒斯坦组织联盟走上街头，导致该大道关闭。Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
附原英文报道：
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators block Storrow Drive, march on Israeli consulate
By John Hilliard, Nick Stoico, Sean Cotter and Dan Glaun Globe Staff,Updated October 6, 2024
Protesters marched on Storrow Drive, shutting it down as a coalition of pro-Palestinian organizations took to the street.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through part of Boston Sunday beginning on Boston Common, snarling traffic along a vital roadway, and rallying outside the Israeli consulate.
They were protesting Israel and demanding that it end military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, organizers said. Some groups criticized the demonstrators’ decision to hold the rally a day before Oct. 7 and during the High Holy Days.
The demonstration caused traffic to come to a standstill on Storrow Drive, a major city roadway, for about a half-hour and jammed up local roads in Beacon Hill. Many protesters wore keffiyeh scarves, hoisted flags representing Palestinians and the nation of Lebanon, or carried signs with messages like “Stop the Genocide” and “End Arms to Israel.”
The demonstration was organized by Boston Coalition for Palestine, which lists around 44 member groups online including campus organizations from schools like Harvard and Boston University.
Lea Kayali, an organizer with the Palestinian Youth Movement, said blocking Storrow Drive was part of an intensification of tactics to protest against Israel.
”We need to disrupt the status quo,” Kayali said, while demonstrators massed outside the Israeli consulate on Park Plaza late Sunday afternoon.
Eli Gerzon, of Jewish Voice for Peace, said Israel’s actions don’t make the Jewish people more secure.
”Jewish people will be safe and free when Palestinians are safe and free,” he told protesters at the consulate, drawing cheers.
Nearly a year ago, Hamas killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in Israel, and took about 250 people hostage, the deadliest attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust. In the war, Israel has killed more than 41,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including civilians and fighters, according to Gaza’s Hamas-controlled health ministry.
Millions in Gaza have been forced to leave their homes amid constant airstrikes that Israel has said are targeting Hamas.
The war between Israel and Hamas also threatens to broaden into a wider war in the Middle East. In recent weeks, Israel has increasingly moved into a two-front conflict with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Iran, which supports both Hamas and Hezbollah, launched missile attacks on Israel on Oct. 1.
The demonstration, which began around 1 p.m. at Boston Common’s Parkman Bandstand, ultimately drew thousands who chanted slogans supporting Palestinians and Lebanon to the sound of beating drums.
Mack Shaw, of Providence, said he attended the protest to make sure people kept paying attention to the situation in Gaza.
“Stop the genocide, stop the war, stop the murder of women and children in Gaza,” said Shaw, who had a Palestinian flag tied around his shoulders like a cape.
Sergeant Detective John Boyle, a Boston police spokesperson, said the protest did not have a permit from the city. After a couple of hours, the throngs marched out into Charles Street and they made their way northward to Storrow Drive.
Several Boston police officers on bicycles and motorcycles responded to the scene, and stopped traffic as the protesters marched on local roads.
Once protesters reached Storrow Drive, they spilled out onto the roadway’s eastbound lane. Motorists were forced to stop their cars; at least one driver got out of his vehicle and appeared to record video of the demonstrators.
On Storrow Drive, the demonstrators chanted “intifada, intifada, globalize the intifada” and “resistance is justified” as they jumped up and down on the road. “Shut it down!” demonstrators chanted.
State Police stopped traffic on the highway while the demonstrators marched to Revere Street and circled back into Beacon Hill. Storrow Drive reopened around 4 p.m.
As they marched south, they reached the Boston Park Plaza hotel, where some protesters mingled with striking hotel workers.
Ed Childs, a retired member of the hotel workers union, said Palestinians and American workers share the same struggle.
“We’re going to shut this city down; we’re going to shut this country down until workers from Boston to Palestine are free,” Childs said.
The demonstrators then marched to the Israeli consulate on Park Plaza, where the entrance was blocked off by metal fencing. Additional Boston police officers in neon vests were also at the scene.
“Say it loud and say it clear, we don’t want no Zionists here,” protesters chanted outside the consulate.
Massachusetts State Police, in a statement late Sunday afternoon, said it had been monitoring protesters who blocked Storrow Drive before heading toward the State House and Boston Common.
Earlier Sunday afternoon, when the demonstration was still at Boston Common, a speaker from the bandstand led the crowd on a series of chants: “A people united will never be defeated,” At another point, they called out: “Lebanon is bleeding, do you hear them screaming?”
Brett Wharton, 33, who works in marketing and lives in Back Bay, carried a sign with a long list of news headlines charting the destruction in Gaza and violence in the West Bank. He said the United States must end its support of Israel.
“We need to stop framing this as pro-Israel or pro-Palestine,” Wharton said. “I say some of these chants a little bit hesitantly, because obviously it’s simplifying a big issue down to a few words.”
Many protesters also chanted slogans that have been criticized for calling for violence against Jews.
The timing of the protest drew the ire of a handful of counter-demonstrators on the Common Sunday.
Gidon Ben Rivka shook his head when the crowd cheered after a speaker on the bandstand yelled out: “Almost exactly a year ago, Gaza broke down the prison doors.”
“They’re celebrating Oct. 7,” said Rivka, 50, of Quincy. “That was the worst Jewish day in my lifetime.”
Material from Globe wire services was included in this report.
