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North Andover, Massachusetts, officers authorised a allow Monday, permitting a Palestinian flag to be flown on the North Andover City Frequent, in keeping with reviews.
Boston 25 Information reported that the black, white, pink and inexperienced flag was raised Tuesday morning and can stay in place till Dec. 7.
Residents attended a board assembly that needed to be rescheduled due to reported “threats of litigation in addition to public security issues,” each in favor and opposition of the flag being placed on show on city property.
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North Andover, Mass., officers authorised an utility to fly a Palestinian flag on the City Frequent till Dec. 7. (Google Maps)
One resident, Salma Boulal, attended the assembly and mentioned if Israel will get to fly its flag within the North Andover widespread, Palestinians deserve the identical proper, the information station reported.
To make sure order was upheld, police had been current on the assembly in giant numbers.
City Supervisor Melissa Rodrigues reportedly mentioned an utility to fly the flag was submitted to the city Oct. 16, about six hours earlier than city officers up to date its coverage on flying flags.
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Professional-Palestinian demonstrators with a Palistinian flag throughout a protest at Columbia College in New York Metropolis. (Julia Bonavita/Fox Information Digital/File)
Previous to the change, the coverage allowed a city resident to use to fly a flag in town’s flagpole.
Rodrigues mentioned the applying resulted within the flagpole being thought-about for a public discussion board, although the topic of a flag can’t be thought-about when reviewing an utility offered underneath the previous coverage.
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Contributors of a solidarity rally for Israel maintain Israel’s flag. (Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/Image Alliance by way of Getty Photographs/File)
Below the brand new coverage, using the flagpole is restricted to statements of governmental speech, the station reported, which works together with a U.S. Supreme Court docket resolution in Shurtleff v. Boston.
“In accordance with the choice within the Shurtleff case, the City might not prohibit a flag to be flown based mostly on its content material, its which means or its message,” Rodrigues wrote. “This limitation on the Choose Board’s discretion signifies that denial of a resident’s flag utility underneath the prior coverage locations the City in jeopardy of authorized motion.”
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The information station additionally reported that the city has allowed an Israeli flag to fly within the City Frequent since early October, when Hamas launched an assault on Israel.
North Andover is not the one Massachusetts city to OK elevating the Palestinian flag within the public sq.. Final week, the state’s second-largest metropolis, Worcester, flew the Palestinian flag in entrance of Metropolis Corridor, in keeping with the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
And like in North Andover, the Israeli flag had a week-long run in Worcester final month after the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist assaults in Israel.
Greg Wehner is a breaking information reporter for Fox Information Digital.
