
As Chicago prepares for the Democratic National Convention coming up from August 19th through 22nd, concerns are growing about how protest groups permit requests are being handled.
Although permission has been granted for a coalition of pro-Palestinian activists to demonstrate, organizers for The Israeli American Council (IAC) say the City has been sitting on a request from the pro-Israel group to hold a solidarity march.
According to Aya Schechter, IACโs chief programming officer, the organization filed two applications with Chicagoโs Department of Transportation at the beginning of July.
However, with the convention only ten days away, the IAC says they have yet to receive an answer from the city.
A request by IAC for a permit for a stationary demonstration within โsight and soundโ of the convention filed in mid-June was denied.
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.
โIt seems like we donโt have equitable access to whatever the other group was approved for,โ she said in an interview with Jewish Insider earlier this week, voicing frustration with the cityโs delay. โWe didnโt get any offer to do a march, not even in an alternative location.โ
CNNโs Van Jones recently admitted to Jim Acosta on Newsroom that โanti-Semitism has gotten marbled intoโ the Democrat party.
โHereโs the challenge you got in this party, and people donโt want to talk about it, we got to talk about it.โ
โOn the one hand, you have a lot of young people who are concerned about Gaza. You have a lot of Muslims and Arabs and others. They had not felt seen by the Biden administration. You start hearing that genocide joke, that was building, that was building.โ
โBut you also have anti-Semitism that has gotten marbled into this party. You can be for the Palestinians without being an anti-Jewish bigot, but there are some anti-Jewish bigots out there, and thereโs some disquiet now, and there has to be how much of what just happened is caving into some of these darker parts in the party. Thatโs going to have to get worked out. Itโs going to have to get talked through.โ
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