Posted on 05/23/2024 3:35:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Alderman Rossana Rodriguez has in the past sparked controversy for her remarks about Israel
Jewish groups are calling out a Chicago alderman who on her personal Facebook page asked for suggestions for an “anti zionist” pediatrician.
Alderman Rossana Rodriguez appears to have posted the inquiry earlier this week. On Wednesday, the Chicago Jewish Alliance, formed this year to combat antisemitism, wrote on Instagram that her post is discriminatory.
“Imagine if she requested no recommendations for black or Muslim doctors—outrageous, right?” read the group’s post. “We demand Alderwoman Rossana Rodriguez’s immediate resignation.”
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Rodriguez holds a child in the picture whom she identifies as “this baby.” She did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Alliance blurred out the child’s face in its IG post.
The Midwest branch of the Anti-Defamation League posted to Twitter that Rodriguez’s post is “straight out of the playbook of authoritarian regimes” and called on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the rest of the board of aldermen to reject her “bigotry.”
The alderman’s post comes on the heels of several calls from pro-Palestinian activists to avoid patronizing Zionists, including authors. While some protesting Israel’s war in Gaza call Israel “the Zionist entity” and argue that Israel has no right to exist, most American Jews report feeling a connection to Israel, the world’s only Jewish majority country.
Viral list classifies authors as Zionist, urging people not to read their work Rodriguez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and in her second term on Chicago’s governing board, has prompted outrage before for her remarks on Israel.
In November, she tweeted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” drawing condemnation from those who consider the slogan antisemitic. Widely used in protests against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, some interpret it as a call to wipe out the Jewish state and the millions of Jews within it. Others say the call for Palestinian liberation is misinterpreted as a threat against Jews.
The Chicago City Council, on which aldermen serve, has been more supportive of war protesters than those governing other American cities. It passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in January with Johnson as the tiebreaker, making it the largest city in the country to adopt such a resolution.
Many on social media defended Rodriguez, with several comparing Zionism to Nazism and white supremacy, a charge Zionists reject as discriminatory and ironic, noting that Israel was founded in the wake of the Holocaust.
Every Jewish doctor should refuse to treat any Hamas supporter. Worldwide.
it is amazing just how evil some people can be. a Chicago alderman no less.
but Chicago is probably the center of the communist cabal in USA.... for some unknown reason (except maybe that if it is permitted to exist in America it has to reside somewhere...)
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