The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department.
Nov. 2: A customer became upset at the AT&T store at Arsenal Yards. An employee was assisting another customer when a man sat very close to them. He was asked to move away to protect the other customer’s information. The man became upset and confrontational. Police were called and the man was issued a no trespass order.
Nov. 2: A woman took $36 in clothing from Target.
Nov. 4: A resident parked his Jeep Wrangler in the municipal parking lot near City Hall and when he returned someone had keyed his vehicle.
Nov. 5: A purple couch was left in the roadway on Common Street.
Nov. 5: An employee at a nonprofit organization in Watertown received an email that appeared to be from a co-worker. It requested that a scheduled payment be sent to an alternate email because the regular account was not available due to a scheduled audit. The organization wired $30,437 to the alternate address, but employees quickly realized it was a fraudulent email and account. Police are investigating.
Nov. 5: A juvenile male was seen shoplifting at Target. He took $94 worth of merchandise.
Nov. 6: A resident received a collection letter from Progressive Insurance for $265. The resident does not have a Progressive policy. It appears someone opened the account in the resident’s name.
Nov. 6: A man took $31 worth of merchandise from Target.
Nov. 7: Watertown Police took man wanted on two warrants into custody. Police arrested Ross Dakin, 48, of Watertown.
Nov. 7: Two men entered Ulta in Arsenal Yards and took two bottles of fragrance valued at $440. Both suspects appear to be juveniles.
Nov. 8: A Lyons Street resident reported an application had been submitted for a Capital One platinum card, but she never opened an account. No money appears to have been charged.
Nov. 8: Anti-Israel flyers were found blowing around Howe Street, School Street, and Boylston Street. One had an image of a skull wearing a military helmet with blood coming from a hole in the helmet, and it said “Death to the IDF.” Another had an image of Donald Trump and said “BDS,” “Zionism,” “G-side,” “Treason,” and “Kill Fascists.”
Nov. 8: A man took $236 worth of clothing, electronics, and office supplies from Target.
Nov. 8: Two women took female hygiene products valued at $100 from Target.
Nov. 9: Target reported two men took $168 in merchandise.
Nov. 9: A woman stole $106 worth of items from Target.
And yet, in testimony before the MA Special Commission on Combatting Anti-Semitism, groups like “Concerned Jewish Faculty” and “Together for an Inclusive Massachusetts” have argued that “while antisemitism is certainly present, it is overstated: They described it as a “problem” rather than a “crisis,” and therefore should not warrant the unique focus this Commission has brought to bear.
They cautioned that because the Trump administration has manipulated antisemitism for its own purposes, Massachusetts should be wary of treating it with unique urgency. That our commonwealth risks validating national politics it opposes by focusing too intently on Jewish concerns here at home.”
https://jcrcboston.org/campus-antisemitism-is-more-than-just-a-problem/
Tell that to Jewish students and their parents who found this flyer blowing around the Hosmer school area. Shame on all of you who are trying to minimize the importance of this issue and its effects on the local Jewish Community.
Right on, right on!
“Treason” and “Kill Fascists” are not just “Jewish concerns”; neither is “Zionism” to gentiles who ardently support the Jewish State. The Hamas terrorists who launched the war on 10/7/23 could have ended it on any day of their choosing by releasing the hostages and laying down their weapons—and chose never. Not, at least, until Israel cornered them (and they still haven’t disarmed). Around one third of the hostages were murdered in captivity.
“Manipulated antisemitism”??? That would be a first. Today’s antisemites are but the latest goons in a timeline millennia in length. The first lesson in antisemitism is that its only manipulators are the antisemites themselves. Start with the Nazis and work back through the Czar, the French military, etc. Actually, start with Nov. 8 (see above) and work back to the Nazis, etc.