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

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

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.

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

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

After spending a week in Israel, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley has returned home to the capitol city, and was met Thursday ...

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 ...

A Palestinian flag was raised on Friday at City Hall, but the flag-raising ceremony turned tense as a crowd of several dozen ...

On Thursday, during a Providence City Council Meeting the issue was addressed. Counselors James Taylor and Helen Anthony ...