Matt Margolis

Last night, myself, and a few others of the local chapter of Free Republic held a counter protest to a rally organized by One Palestine. One Palestine was in Boston to protest a conference held by an organization called Brit Tzedek V’Shalom, an organization which basically believes that the Jews of Israel can peacefully co-exist with the Arabs as long as both sides make various concessions. Personally, I don’t believe their goal is realistic, for the Arabs have shown nothing but pure hatred for the Jewish people and only wish to destroy Israel.

Holding signs and having fun.

That aside, we had a small group with us. Several people on our side could not make it. However, we had about five people, and the pro-Palis had between 30 and 40 people. They were on one side of the street, we were on the other, at the entrance to the Park Plaza hotel.

Their messages were contradictory and inflammatory. They called Israel a “Terror State,” they were calling for an end to “racism and genocide” amongst other things.

Aaron with his ever-so-popular “Suck My Intifada” sign.

This is very interesting, because not one of them was holding a sign condemning suicide homicide bombings. They had a few chants, and we’d usually counter their chants with our own. They would shout “Palestine will never die!” and we’d say “Palestine was never alive!” or they’d say, “Zionism is racism!” to which we replied, “Intifadah is terrorism!” They had a bunch of different slogans, and I’d come up with different things on the fly to respond with, “Palestine is a terror state!” “Bombing buses is not peace!” “Stop the bombings then we’ll talk!” “Am Yisrael Chai”

All in all, I think we did a good a job standing up to them. They appeared very irritated at our presence, and I think they got really annoyed that our chants were interrupting theirs and they certainly appeared dumbfounded at times on how to respond to various things we said.

Me wearing Tyler’s President Bush mask.

You can imagine the reactions we got.

We experienced a lot of different reactions from passersby. One man came up next to me said, “I can’t believe those people across the street, I’m glad you guys are out here, you’re doing the Lord’s work.”

At one point, we saw the pro-Palis chasing after someone surrounded by security, me, my brother, and another Freeper chased after them to see what was going on, we were told it was Congressman Barney Frank, who the pro-Palis had been shouting about a couple times back by the hotel. They assaulted him with questions, and he did his best to have a reasonable conversation with him, but after they kept flooding him from all directions with remarks and accusations he refused to continue and left with his security. After this incident we had some face-to-face confrontations with the pro-Palis, which almost seemed ready to violent. Ignorant of the history of Eretz Yisrael, they were unwilling to listen to what we had to say, calling us racists and counter productive. The sign I was carrying had pictures of suicide bombings and I asked them “Do you call this peace? Why don’t you condemn this?” A couple of girls, who I believe were organizers of their protest said, “Yes, I support suicide bombings if that’s what it takes.”

Tyler (wearing the mask) and myself.

These pro-Palis were clearly inhuman parasites. I couldn’t believe my ears. I shouted some nasty things at them, and made my way back across the street.

Occasionally someone from their side would come over and they’d engage us in an argument… while they were perfectly willing to spread their hateful lies, they were unwilling to listen to us. They kept shouting, ignoring the facts we had…I once again asked them to condemn the homicide bombings, and they wouldn’t – they actually said they agreed with them.

The whole affair lasted a bit over 4 hours. For a group of our size, we gave them a decent fight and as their numbers dwindled, we remained strong. After it was over, the five of us went to cheers for dinner and some brew. It was a great time.

Hanging at Cheers after the protest.

Check out my brother Aaron’s description of the protest at his blog.
And Tyler (BostonianRightist) has a FReport about the event also.