Boulder Daily Camera: Is the open comment section at Boulder City Council meetings broken? Some councilmembers think so.

Once simmering tensions at council meetings over the Israel-Hamas war might be nearing a boiling point. An April meeting went into recess three times because of pro-Palestine protesters who were interrupting proceedings. The public was cleared of the council chambers after the third instance so the meeting could finish.

Leading up to that had been months of increasingly tense open comments sections in which pro-Palestine protestors accuse the council, based on investments, of being complicit in the deaths of more than 54,000 people in Gaza. Other commenters, many of whom are Jewish, accuse those protestors of being racist for differentiating anti-Zionism and antisemitism, or accuse them of supporting the terrorist group Hamas, which perpetrated the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israel that killed nearly 1,200 people and has been dubbed the bloodiest day for the Jewish people since the holocaust.

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