I knew Massachusetts was a complete left wing shithole on par with California, Illinois and New York, but flying a Palestinian flag on par with an American flag over North Andover Town Common? That’s a new level of pro Hamas love that I haven’t seen before.
And get this. The Palestinian flag is right under the POW-MIA flag which is even more disgusting!
At a select board meeting, which had previously been rescheduled due to “threats of litigation as well as public safety concerns,” residents spoke passionately in both defense and opposition to the flag.
“A lot of tension, a lot of opposition,” Salma Boulal, who attended the meeting, said. “If Israel gets their flag to fly in the North Andover common then Palestinians deserve that same right.”
“It was pretty heated…there are those that look at the Palestinian flag as a symbol of hate,” Brian Buzby said.
There was a large police presence at the meeting as a precaution.
North Andover Town Manager Melissa Rodrigues said the application for flying the Palestinian flag was submitted on October 16, just 6 hours prior to the town updating its flag policies.
“The prior flag policy specifically allowed a Town resident to submit an application to fly a flag on the Town’s flagpole, resulting in that flagpole being considered a public forum,” she explained. “The content or the subject matter of a flag cannot be considered when reviewing an application presented under the old policy.”
The new policy which has since been enacted in North Andover limits the use of the flagpole to statements of governmental speech only, consistent with US Supreme Court decision Shurtleff v. Boston.