Because Fuel is a majority-Jewish-owned business, a pro-Palestinian rally was held last Saturday, followed by aggressively picketing Fuel and badgering customers, claiming Fuel’s owners support Zionism and genocide in Gaza.
As Steve Bannon said, protesting American foreign policy in front of Town Hall is a right; assigning acts of genocide based on hearsay to a business 5,000 miles away from the conflict that sells coffee is, in fact, antisemitism.
Unjustifiable scapegoating of human beings eventually affects every one of us. I fear this is a case where the town of West Stockbridge is about to fail the Nguyen family again, because this issue has clearly become a popularity contest.
I don’t know if the Wizard of Oz reminds you of anyone in particular, but it suddenly occurred to me the other day that Donald Trump is not so different from the sad old gasbag behind the curtain.
Everyone, including Truc, believes The Foundry is good for the community. However, as long as there is reason to believe that aspects of its programming do cause harm to neighbors, there need to be some conditions in place.
I have been studying Italian since 1990, but I keep getting delighted anew. Right now, a source of fresh delights is one of the Italian versions of the English “un.”
When most people violate the norms of their workplace, they are fired. When Supreme Court justices and federal legislators violate the norms of their workplace, they blame their wives and remain in place.
Although the world has a dreadful history of rejecting others, their ideas, and customs, it is nonetheless disappointing that our slice of Eden is not immune from such distrust.
The public world still interests me, as I watch MSNBC and critically obsess about all things Trumpian, including the Manhattan trial, filled with B-movie characters like Michael Cohen, David Pecker, and the indomitable Stormy Daniels.
PCB pollution, if left unchecked, will cause adverse and irreversible effects on the health of Berkshire County residents. We deserve to live freely in a county with access to clean water—and peace of mind that a situation similar to this will never happen again.
