Pro-Palestinian activists waved the flag of a terrorist organization and praised violent action during a protest against Israel’s Vertigo Dance Company on Friday in Boston at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre.
The protesters waved the red flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department.Videos of the protest were posted on social media by Palestinian Youth Movement Boston, Party for Socialism & Liberation Boston, and the Boston Coalition for Palestine.
One marcher waving the red flag wore a keffiyeh with a matching PFLP headband. A woman draped in a Palestinian flag can be seen carrying the red flag."Glory to the martyrs and glory to the Palestinian resistance," one of the protesters said.
“Long live the Intifada,” the demonstrators chanted.
"Long live the Intifada"
“Reject all forms of normalization wherever you see it. Glory to all our martyrs. Glory to the Resistance!” promotional images for the protest said. They were posted by PYM, PSL, BCP, Students for Justice in Palestine Emerson, Boston South Asian Coalition, BDS Boston, and Students for Justice in Palestine Suffolk University.In the promotional posts, the red triangle used in terrorist propaganda to denote targeting for an attack was placed above a Vertigo dancer. The red triangle also appeared above the name Vertigo.“Reject Zionism in all spheres. Zionists out of dance. Zionists out of Palestine,” the advertisement said, with red triangles above the words “Zionism” and “Zionists,” except for the last one, which was crossed out with a blood smear.Some of the advertisement slides crossed out the face of the dancer with a blood smear, facing black-garbed figures carrying rocks and shields.
The activist groups explained that they organized the Iranian Al Quds Day protest against the troupe in part because "Vertigo Dance Company is based in occupied Al Quds [Jerusalem]." The company is based in the Gerard Behar Center in Jerusalem.The slogan “No peace for settlers on stolen land” was in the advertisement and was chanted by the activists.“On top of dancing on stolen land, they work with the genocidal IOF [sic] and provide ‘rehab’ for soldiers after they commit genocide in Gaza,” the protesters said.The Vertigo Dance Company operates the Resilience Farm project at the Vertigo Eco-Art Village, offering soldiers who have experienced trauma an isolated location where they can undergo therapeutic sessions, body and mind workshops, Qigong, Feldenkrais, meditation, and other programs.