DEMANDS. PROTESTERS SHARED THIS MORNING. WE’VE HAD ISSUES IN THE PAST IN THIS TOWN AND WE WE NEED TO GET TO THE CRUX OF THE PROBLEM, BUT WE WANT TO BE HERE TO COMFORT OUR NEIGHBORS COMMUNITY COMFORT CAME IN THE FORM OF A STANDOUT AGAINST HATE BEFORE CLASSES THIS MORNING IN FRONT OF WAYLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL. NO ONE SEPARATED OR OSTRACIZED OR ANYTHING. IT’S LIKE WE’RE ALL TOGETHER AS ONE COMMUNITY, WORKING TOGETHER, AND WE WILL COME TOGETHER AGAINST HATE. PEOPLE OLD AND YOUNG CAME TOGETHER AS ONE, HOLDING SIGNS AS A SIGN THAT HATE HAS NO PLACE HERE. THE DEMONSTRATION COMES DAYS AFTER AN INCIDENT OF ANTI SEMITISM IN TOWN TO SWASTIKA WERE FOUND PAINTED ON RICE ROAD AFTER THE SADNESS OF SEEING THAT A SWASTIKA COULD BE DRAWN IN TOWN. THERE’S SOMETHING SO UPLIFTING AND INVIGORATE ABOUT SEEING THIS COMMUNITY GATHER TOGETHER IN THIS WAY TO MAKE A COUNTER STATEMENT. ABOUT THE VALUES THAT WE REALLY HOLD DEAR AS A COMMUNITY AND THAT WE SHOULD BE STANDING UP FOR AND DEFENDING THE RECENT EVENTS ARE LIKE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE I’VE MOVED HERE, MADE ME FEEL SCARED FOR MY CHILDREN. WHEN THEY WERE GOING TO SCHOOL AND HEARING FROM THE JEWISH COMMUNITY THAT THEY ALSO FELT FEAR. IT FELT KIND OF SAD THAT AS A COMMUNITY THAT WE’RE FEELING MUTUAL FEAR OF ONE ANOTHER AND IT SHOULDN’T BE THAT WAY. WHAT UNITES US IS SO MUCH MORE THAN WHAT DIVIDES US, AND SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE SOCIETY LOSES SIGHT OF THAT. NOW, WITH REGARD TO THE SWASTIKA INCIDENT, THE POLICE CHIEF HERE IN WAYLAND SAYS NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE YET. THIS INVESTIGATION IS CONTINUING. REPORTING
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Students walk out in Wayland to protest recent antisemitic graffiti
Updated: 12:13 PM EST Nov 17, 2023
Students in Wayland, Massachusetts, walked out of class Friday to protest antisemitism after swastikas were found written on a road in town. “We’ve had issues in the past in this town, and we need to get to the crux of the problem, but we want to be here to comfort our neighbors,” resident Andy Jagolinzer said.Community comfort came in the form of a “stand out” against hate before school Friday morning in front of Wayland Middle School. “No one is like separated or ostracized or anything. It’s like we’re all together as one community — working together — and we will come together against hate,” 11th grader Rachel Goldstone said.People old and young came together as one, holding signs — as a sign — that hate has no place there. The demonstration comes days after an incident of antisemitism in town where two swastikas were found painted on Rice Road.”After the sadness of seeing that a swastika could be drawn in town, there’s something so uplifting and invigorating about seeing this community gather together in this way to make a counter-statement about the values that we really hold dear as a community, and that we should be standing up for and defending,” Temple Shir Tikva Rabbi Danny Burkeman said.”The recent events are, like, for the first time since I’ve moved here, made me feel scared for my children when they were going to school and hearing from the Jewish community that they also felt fear, it felt kind of sad that, as a community, that we’re feeling mutual fear of one another and it shouldn’t be that way,” resident Dina Sorour said.”What unites us is so much more than what divides us, and sometimes it feels like society loses sight of that,” Burkeman said.
Students in Wayland, Massachusetts, walked out of class Friday to protest antisemitism after swastikas were found written on a road in town.
“We’ve had issues in the past in this town, and we need to get to the crux of the problem, but we want to be here to comfort our neighbors,” resident Andy Jagolinzer said.
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Community comfort came in the form of a “stand out” against hate before school Friday morning in front of Wayland Middle School.
“No one is like separated or ostracized or anything. It’s like we’re all together as one community — working together — and we will come together against hate,” 11th grader Rachel Goldstone said.
People old and young came together as one, holding signs — as a sign — that hate has no place there. The demonstration comes days after an incident of antisemitism in town where two swastikas were found painted on Rice Road.
“After the sadness of seeing that a swastika could be drawn in town, there’s something so uplifting and invigorating about seeing this community gather together in this way to make a counter-statement about the values that we really hold dear as a community, and that we should be standing up for and defending,” Temple Shir Tikva Rabbi Danny Burkeman said.
“The recent events are, like, for the first time since I’ve moved here, made me feel scared for my children when they were going to school and hearing from the Jewish community that they also felt fear, it felt kind of sad that, as a community, that we’re feeling mutual fear of one another and it shouldn’t be that way,” resident Dina Sorour said.
“What unites us is so much more than what divides us, and sometimes it feels like society loses sight of that,” Burkeman said.