Members of the Jewish Voice for Peace - Rhode Island protested outside of Mayor Brett Smiley's Providence home on Thursday ...

The flag-raising was announced on the same day that the city’s Jewish Mayor Brett Smiley returned from a trip to Israel.

Smiley is more than halfway through his term, and facing pushback from constituents over a planned tax increase.

More than a dozen community members held signs, chanted and drummed outside Mayor Brett Smiley’s home early Thursday morning.

Mayor Brett Smiley said he wasn’t happy that Providence City Councilors will be raising the Palestinian flag at City Hall on ...

Tensions between City Council members, and between councilors and the mayor, played out over several days before the flag ...

Providence, Rhode Island, officials have accepted a request to fly the Palestinian flag Friday at City Hall in the state’s ...

Providence, Rhode Island, city officials plan to raise the Palestinian flag over City Hall on Friday, a move that has sparked ...