Pro-Palestinian employees at Massachusetts General Hospital canceled a "Vigil for Palestine" scheduled to be held outside the hospital on Wednesday after a top administrator insisted it be renamed a "Vigil for Peace" and moved indoors. Anna Brown, a senior vice president and chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer for the hospital's parent organization, Mass General Brigham, emailed organizers of the vigil to say that an online flyer advertising the event planned on the campus's Bulfinch Lawn needed to be reworded. In addition to announcing that a "Silent Vigil for Palestine" was to take place Wednesday afternoon for 15 minutes, the flyer, shared on a listserv for MGH employees interested in social justice, said, "Not another child. Not another hospital. Not another bomb." Brown objected to all wording that linked the event to Israel's military campaign in Gaza.
