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Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) held a “solidarity gathering” yesterday in response to the weekly vigils organized by the Palestinian Solidarity Committee (PSC) for victims of violence in Gaza. The PSC vigils—the group has held three in response to recent Palestinian civilian deaths in the Middle East—have come under fire from HSI members for their allegedly politicized nature. Jewish and pro-Israel groups had approached the PSC in an attempt to organize vigils mourning both Palestinian and Israeli civilian casualties, HSI President Rebecca M. Rohr...
Partway through the vigil, Harvard University Police moved the participants off the Memorial Hall steps to the grass nearby because the PSC had not applied for a permit. Zaatari said organizers had not been aware that a permit was necessary...
Zaatari said she was happy with the turnout at the event, which drew groups outside Harvard in addition to faculty and students at the University. She said that members of the PSC include Palestinian students, Arab students, and others interested in social justice issues...
...PSC intends to make the vigils a weekly event, Zaatari said...
...associated with Harvard Hillel told organizers that they were concerned the vigil had been organized to advocate a political stance rather than merely to mourn the dead, said Naor H. Ben-Yehoyada, an Israeli student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who proposed the vigil to the PSC...