The Chicago City Council should not delay the vote on a #ceasefire.
According to Shia Kapos in today’s Illinois Playbook, Ald. Debra Silverstein has asked socialist alder Rossana Rodríguez-Sánchez to hold off on next week’s council vote on a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza because it would come three days ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27.
Alder Rodriquez authored the #ceasefire resolution.
According to Kapos, Silverstein’s request was accompanied by a letter supporting Silverstein signed by 27 alders.
“In deference to this commemoration, and out of sensitivity to the Holocaust Survivors who suffered so horribly, we do not believe the January meeting is the proper time to discuss this,” wrote the alders.
That makes no sense.
Kapos reports that 33rd ward Alder Rodriquez is considering the request. On the other hand, state senator Robert Peters criticized the request, saying the Holocaust shouldn’t be used as a “wedge against a ceasefire.”
I’m with state representative Peters on this.
I would even go further than Peters and say that Holocaust Remembrance Day is the perfect day to discuss and pass a city council resolution supporting a #ceasefire.
Stopping the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza requires urgency.
Never again means never again.
For too long even many self-professed liberal politicians have been afraid to utter the word “ceasefire.”
They have not exactly represented profiles in courage.
Meanwhile over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza.
Perhaps as many as half have been children.
