If Chicago’s Jewish community felt better respected by the administration of Mayor Brandon Johnson and more confident that its concerns about antisemitism were not being unheard, we doubt there would have been so much angst about a controversial puppet in a city-funded exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center. But as several representatives of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) came to tell us recently, that is not in fact the case. They spoke of trying to reach out and being rebuffed, of unanswered requests for meetings, of a continued resistance to open dialogue, let alone acknowledging what they, and we, see...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
