Gov. JB Pritzker
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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.
I'm shocked that we have a government in the United States, which always, you know, has tried to play a bit of a broker role, right, has now gone completely anti-Palestinian.
That's what our government is currently doing.
And it's like you can't hold the innocent people of a country or a territory, you can't hold them responsible for what happens
leaders, whether we're talking about Benjamin Netanyahu or Hamas, have done.
We have to now stand up for the people who are most innocent and most put upon.
So I think that's what it is to be a Democrat, too, FYI.