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2025-12-22 Home Front: Politix
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Progressive Chicago mayor joins Israeli consulate Hanukkah party with solidarity message
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After snubbing the local Jewish community, he’s another who wants to be seen with Israel following the Bondi Beach attack. [IsraelTimes] Brandon Johnson, who has called Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza ‘genocidal,’ says he’s grateful for relationship with Jewish state, sends condolences over Bondi Beach attack
reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Mayor Brandon Johnson
 ...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city's stellar public schools system. He helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Da Mare, he served on the Cook County Board of Boodling Commissioners from 2018 to 2023...
attended a Hanukkah party hosted by the Israeli consulate in the Midwest US city on Thursday, where the progressive politician expressed a message of solidarity days a terror attack targeted Jews who had gathered to celebrate the holiday in Bondi Beach in Australia.
In remarks at the event, Johnson expressed his condolences "to the Jewish community in the wake of yet another tragedy," saying that the attack serves as "yet another reminder of why we all have to come together to root out the evil of antisemitism."
His decision to appear at an event hosted by the Israeli consulate rather than one organized by a Jewish organization in the city was notable given his fraught relationship with the mission since the outbreak of the war with Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Johnson cast the deciding vote to pass a City Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in February 2024, angering legacy Jewish organizations that argued that the initiative was one-sided and failed to condemn the Hamas terror group, which had launched a devastating surprise attack on Israel four months earlier.
The motion was completely symbolic, but its advocates said it sent a message to then-US president Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
’s administration from Chicago, one of the most prominent Democratic-majority cities in the US and host of the Democratic National Convention the following summer. The White House, at the time, was pushing back against calls for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in favor of extended humanitarian pauses during which hostages held by Hamas could be released.
Johnson later characterized Israel’s war in Gaza as "genocidal," telling the Mother Jones news site: "We have to acknowledge and name it for what it is and have the moral courage to exercise our authority."
But against the backdrop of a fragile ceasefire that was signed between Israel and Hamas in October this year and the Bondi Beach attack days earlier, Johnson struck a far more conciliatory tone.
"I did have a conversation just yesterday with [Israeli] Consul General [Elad] Strohmayer... and I assured him that my door will always remain open for us to be able to engage in continued dialogue on matters that affect all of our communities, but specifically the unique challenges that the Jewish community is experiencing," Johnson said.
"I’m grateful for the strong and important relationship between Chicago and Israel, including our sister city partnership with Petah Tikva. In moments like this, that connection underscores our shared values as well as our mutual support," he added.
"As mayor, I reaffirm my commitment... to the safety and dignity and the inclusion of all communities, but especially our Jewish community and those who are enduring a great deal of fear right now," said the mayor.
Strohmayer thanked Johnson for attending the gathering, maintaining that "in a city as diverse and vibrant as Chicago, moments like this matter."
"Only together can we face this moment. Israelis and Americans, Jews and non-Jews, religious and secular, those who love Israel unconditionally and those who challenge it because they care. By standing together this Hanukkah, we will bring light into the darkness," said the Israeli diplomat.
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