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Pro-Israel group struggling to gain permit to rally at DNC — while pro-Palestinian groups got green light
Jewish Insider ^ | August 8, 2024 | Matthew Kassel

Posted on 08/11/2024 10:37:22 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

For several weeks, the City of Chicago has been sitting on a request from a pro-Israel group to hold a solidarity march during the Democratic National Convention, even as it has granted permission for a coalition of pro-Palestinian activists to demonstrate when the proceedings kick off later this month.

The Israeli American Council, a nonprofit organization representing Israeli-Americans that seeks to strengthen ties between the U.S. and Israel, filed two applications with Chicago’s Department of Transportation at the beginning of July, according to Aya Schechter, the group’s chief programming officer.

But with just under two weeks remaining until the convention, the IAC has yet to receive an answer from the city, despite following up via phone and email.

The group had also submitted an application in mid-June for a stationary demonstration within “sight and sound” of the convention, which will be held at the United Center on Chicago’s West Side. That request was denied, according to a rejection letter, which said the proposed rally “would be a direct interference with a previously planned permitted activity or public assembly and would create public safety issues.”

While the letter said it would instead allow the IAC to rally in a public park on the final evening of the convention, which is scheduled to run Aug. 19-22, the IAC chose not to accept the offer because it was too far away from the United Center, according to Schechter.

For Schechter, the so far unsuccessful effort to secure a desirable permit ahead of the convention, which is expected to draw thousands of anti-Israel protesters, has underscored what she characterized as unbalanced treatment as her group seeks to show support for Israel and the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

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KEYWORDS: antisemiticdems; antisemitism; chicago; dnc; iac; israel; permit; prohamasagitators; proisrael; propalestine; protest

1 posted on 08/11/2024 10:37:22 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

DNC-the party of subversion, economic ruin, jobs destruction, perversion, Communism, societal divisiveness, Nazism, Terrorism, and Racism. And rigged elections, let’s not forget what they’re really best at.

How they could put all that in a catchy slogan?


2 posted on 08/11/2024 10:44:46 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: MinorityRepublican

I wonder if the Feds will be marching in their matching khakis and polo shirts under some cutesy name like Patriot Front?


3 posted on 08/11/2024 10:47:27 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: MinorityRepublican

I guess the DNC figures they already own the Jewish vote so now the court the Muslim vote.


4 posted on 08/11/2024 10:49:05 PM PDT by Jean2
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To: Jean2
The DNC probably gets support from about 70% of American Jews. But the DNC doesn't own all the Jewish vote. Observant Jews who live by the Torah aren't owned, and most of them do not support the DNC.

5 posted on 08/11/2024 11:29:52 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: faithhopecharity

I hope pro-Palestinian terrorist wing of the demonrat party floods the DNC convention next week.

They need to have to explain all their nutballs on live TV.


6 posted on 08/11/2024 11:33:28 PM PDT by Beagle8U (" F Hairass and the Commie Coward.")
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To: MinorityRepublican
A Hamas-friendly mob is preparing to take over the streets surrounding the Chicago Dem Convention. These are the Muslim driven terrorists that trashed Harvard and invaded & occupied Columbia University--requiring a tactical police force to subdue and remove the Islamic occupiers of Columbia's buildings.. They march under the Palestinian flag and chant anti-American slogans.

They will try to invade the Convention Center and shut it down. How will the Chicago authorities deal with coming mob terrorism?


COMING TO CHICAGO AND THE DEM CONVENTION

7 posted on 08/12/2024 12:29:02 AM PDT by henbane ( WAKE UP, AMERICA! The Dems & RINOs are eating you alive!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Show up anyway. That is the way, now.

-PJ

8 posted on 08/12/2024 12:32:34 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: faithhopecharity
[DNC-the party of subversion, economic ruin, jobs destruction, perversion, Communism, societal divisiveness, Nazism, Terrorism, and Racism. And rigged elections, let’s not forget what they’re really best at.

How they could put all that in a catchy slogan?]

In 2008 they called it: "Hope. Change."


9 posted on 08/12/2024 1:58:49 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

That should say November 1932


10 posted on 08/12/2024 2:01:32 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Perhaps so


11 posted on 08/12/2024 2:04:24 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Beagle8U

The media will NOT show any Pro-Palestinian rallys/marches that are in any way out of hand. If they do show them on TV they will show only the parts of it that are calm. You know, because it will be peaceful protests from law-abiding First Amendment citizens.


12 posted on 08/12/2024 3:29:16 AM PDT by vivenne
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To: vivenne

It is time for Conservatives to boycott those American corporations bent on the nation’s destruction. We should start with CBS, which is owned by Paramount Global and controls activity at CBS, Paramount and MTV.


13 posted on 08/12/2024 3:54:17 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Bookshelf

I agree. It seems we have limited defense options but this is a good one.


14 posted on 08/12/2024 5:03:37 AM PDT by vivenne
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

15 posted on 08/12/2024 5:59:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SaveFerris

true, Obama (or what’s his real name) election was when the penultimate nail was driven into America’s coffin


16 posted on 08/12/2024 7:35:14 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: MinorityRepublican

“For Schechter, the so far unsuccessful effort to secure a desirable permit ahead of the convention, which is expected to draw thousands of anti-Israel protesters, has underscored what she characterized as unbalanced treatment as her group seeks to show support for Israel and the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.”
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Maybe, just maybe, some of my idiot co-religionists will finally understand that the Dems don’t care about them, they just pay the Jews lip service in order to get donations (just like they pay lip service to the Blacks for votes). I would settle for a 10%-15% shift - I certainly don’t expect a majority to vote for anyone but the Dems, but I will take any progress that there may be.


17 posted on 08/12/2024 7:42:51 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." - The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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