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A Chicago alderman called out one of her counterparts on Thursday, claiming antisemitic comments were made by another City Council member on social media.

Ald. Debra Silverstein, 50th, highlighted and harshly criticized a post recently made by Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez, 33rd.

“We must all do our part and continue to speak up until our voices are heard,” Debra Silverstein told JNS.

The backlash comes days after the university made an agreement with encampment organizers to take steps toward divesting from Israel.

Chicago Ald. Deborah Silverstein, state Sen. Sara Feigenholtz, and state Rep. Bob Morgan said Brandon Johnson's support of a cease-fire resolution showed “disrespect” for the Jewish community.

By issuing its ill-conceived resolution for a cease-fire in Gaza, the Chicago City Council neglects the city’s own struggles and the uptick of antisemitism Chicago’s Jewish population is experiencing.

City Council members blasted Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez for speaking at a rally where a protester burned an American flag. Sigcho-Lopez said he's "absolutely not" going to resign from his position.

CHICAGO — Nearly a dozen members of Chicago’s City Council Wednesday demanded Mayor Brandon Johnson call for removing ally Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez as head of the council’s Housing Committee as punishment for the alderman speaking in front of a charred American flag at a pro-Palestinian rally outside City Hall this past Friday. While it’s unclear how closely Johnson will heed the call for ...

Ald. Matt O'Shea described overflowing dumpsters and litter-strewn parking lots, broken fences and light fixtures and tipped-over shopping carts. But "in a predominantly white suburb, I don’t see that. I see clean, well-maintained stores and parking lots,” O’Shea said.

"It is not just mass murder that the people of Gaza are facing," the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago states in the ad.The post Chicago Muslim umbrella group