Gov. JB Pritzker
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He's putting together where he's going to have Benjamin Netanyahu and an enemy of ours, Putin, making decisions about what's good for the innocent people who live in the Gaza territory.
what kind of a country you live in.
So we have to make sure that we're speaking truth to power.
And also just as a Jew, I have to, in my commitment to my faith, understand that
these values of mine, right, of fighting for social justice and people's freedom, that I have to apply that equally to the state of Israel as I do to other countries that have committed atrocities.
I didn't mean to interrupt.
You made me think of something really important.
I mentioned NiemΓΆller's poem.
I think it's really important for us to remind everybody, you know, first they came for the trade unionists.
I wasn't a trade unionist.
And so I did nothing.
And, you know, when it goes through that list, I mean...
Innocent Palestinians are just the same, just the same as innocent Jews, innocent Israelis.
And that's why so much of what I've been fighting for anyway is founded on that idea that they're coming for me, they're coming for you.
I think I heard you say, Jennifer, that you're a white woman who's β
mostly immune from, you know, and don't have to do anything.
But they're coming for you and they're coming for me.
So if they're coming for, you know, they're also coming for the Palestinians.
And so that's why I think that the support that we should be talking about right now is support for rebuilding Gaza, for creating a zone that is literally lifting up human rights and protecting the innocent people of the Gaza Strip.