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Boulder votes to approve Nablus as sister city

 Boulder City Council, after listening to 78 public comments, voted 7-2 in favor of approving the West Bank Palestinian town of Nablus as Boulder’s eighth sister city on Tuesday night, Dec. 13. The vote tally was an exact reversal of the council’s 7-2 defeat of the extremely controversial proposal in 2013. While the majority of opponents were Jewish, a sizeable number aligned themselves with the “Nabluses” who strongly backed the proposal. Speakers during the four-and-a-half hour hearing vacillated between peaceful non-political remarks and barbed critiques of Israeli policies in the West Bank. Boulder now joins only five US cities that have sister city programs with Palestine (the preferred term invoked during the lengthy exchange of testimonies). “We all knew it was a difficult and complex […]
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