Gov. JB Pritzker is known to choose his words carefully and wait until it’s politically safe before weighing in on contentious issues. He has repeatedly offered us what has become a kind of political comfort food in conversations about Israel’s genocide in Gaza: a reasonable-sounding nonanswer. So we should all pay attention when the governor steps up to defend his fellow Democratic billionaire donor and ally Michael J. Sacks, who recently lectured us about the importance of solidarity with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and Israel’s genocidal government, conflating policy criticism with antisemitism. The governor blessed Sacks’ unflinching support...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
