Another Example Of Anti-Semitism Appears In Westport
Three of the volunteers from Run4TheirLives hanging new posters showing the faces of the hostages kidnapped in the October 7th attack on Israel to replace the tattered and destroyed posters hung after the October 7th attack. Those posters were torn down earlier this week. No word on if the group will replace them again.
Photos and Story By J.C. Martin For WestportLocalPress.com.
The day before the jUNe Day celebration in town of the United Nations and Westport’s commitment to the rights of the peoples of the world and to their freedom and safety, a group of volunteers replaced the tattered posters which had appeared on the Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Bridge shortly after the brutal Hamas attack on Israel, with new posters.
The more than 100 new posters were laminated to protect them from the weather and were securely hung with strong zip ties, all at the cost of several hundred dollars to the volunteers who are part of the Run4TheirLives organization.
On Wednesday it was discovered that all of the posters had been ripped from the bridge railings, a feat which required some effort as the thickly laminated sheets were attached quite securely, and a fair amount of time depending upon how many individuals were involved in the effort.
The group provided a statement to WestportLocaPress shortly after jUNe Day, where a silent protest (WestportLocal: In Their Silence) of over 100 people appeared at the jUNe Day commemoration to keep attention focused on those victims of the attack:
“In February, many of the hostage posters hung on the Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Bridge after the October 7th Hamas massacre in Israel, were torn down, ripped, and strewn across the ground. Those that remained grew faded in the nine months since the attack. In response, members of the Westport chapter of Run4TheirLives, reprinted and laminated new posters. Today, those posters representing the remaining 116 hostages thought to remain in captivity – many alive, too many dead – were rehung as part of a local jUNe Day silent protest of 150 Westporters against the UN’s abject silence in the face of definitive and graphic evidence of the sexual atrocities Hamas has committed against women on and since October 7th, and the agency’s involvement and complicity in the attack itself, not to mention its refusal to aid in the release of the hostages, representing 54 nationalities.”
Run4TheirLives is a global volunteer organization of humanitarian citizens who march weekly as a reminder of the hostages in captivity. Westport is one of 212 such groups worldwide.
Photos By J.C. Martin For WestportLocalPress.com